To a Better Sun
Programme
- Orlando Gibbons — Drop, Drop Slow Tears
- William Walton — A Litany (“Drop, Drop Slow Tears”)
- Orlando Gibbons — Drop, Drop Slow Tears II
- William Petter — St Magnus Mass
- Thomas Tallis — Salvator mundi
- John Blow — Salvator mundi
- James MacMillan — Christus Vincit
- Robert Parsons — Ave Maria
- Igor Stravinsky — Ave Maria
- Francis Poulenc — Salve Regina
- Jonathan Battishill — O Lord, look down from Heaven
- Antonio Lotti — Crucifixus
- Henry Purcell — Hear my prayer, O Lord
Performers
Jonny Davies
After being Queen’s Chorister and then Head Chorister at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, Jonny Davies won a music scholarship to Trinity School, Croydon. During his teenage years he studied violin with John Francis, piano with Nigel Clayton at Croydon Schools Piano Centre and organ with Simon Williams. He also acted as assistant organist at St Mary’s Church, Addington. He then went to Brasenose College, Oxford where he received an Organ Exhibition, and sang with Schola Cantorum and the Oxford Chamber Choir. Since leaving Oxford, Jonny has sung as a lay clerk in Guildford Cathedral, with the Holst Singers conducted by Stephen Layton, and with professional church choirs all over London. He was Director of Music at St Olave’s Church, Hart Street and St Katharine Cree in the City of London, from 2007 until 2015.
From the programme of 4 February 2023.
Cory Ferguson
Cory Ferguson divides her time between working as a lawyer, playing the violin and being a mum. Having begun learning the violin by the Suzuki method, Cory later studied with Kathryn Hardman and Christopher Hirons. She was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and in 1997 led the National Youth Chamber Orchestra. Cory was an instrumental award-holder at Cambridge University and after graduating worked as a freelance violinist in Bristol for a time, including leading the Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra, where she has recently returned as guest leader, and performing with local groups such as the Bristol Ensemble. She now lives in South- East London and has led the Kensington Chamber Orchestra since 2010. Formed in 1994, mostly from musicians who live in Bromley, Orpington and Croydon, the Sine Nomine Singers perform both sacred and secular music from the sixteenth century to the present day. Recent programmes have included J. S. Bach’s St John Passion and motets, Parry’s Songs of Farewell, Duruflé’s Requiem, Martin’s Mass for Double Choir, and a wide variety of shorter works by composers including Byrd, Blow, Battishill, and Bednall, MacMillan and Moeran, des Prez and Purcell, and Sheppard, Schütz, and Stanford. In addition to concerts at local venues, the choir has sung Evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, and has performed at Tallinn in Estonia; at Steinfeld Monastery, Germany; at Saumur on the Loire in France; in the church attached to the Manor House, Chideock, Dorset; and at many other venues.
From the programme of 25 March 2017.
The choir
Sopranos
- Kathryn Bartlett
- Jenny Burgess
- Anne Greenidge
- Karen Mackintosh
- Katie Mackintosh
- Sue Oldham
- Sue Thompson
Altos
- Fiona Davey
- Pippa Pawlik
- Natalie Robinson
- Jill Saudek
- Isobel Whelan
Tenors
- Keith Giles
- Matthew Price
- Nick Stein
Basses
- Charlie Crabtree
- James Loader
- Bob Pruden
- Clive Richards
- Roger Thorpe