Música Magnífica
Programme
- Tomás Luis de Victoria — O Quam Gloriosum
- Ralph Vaughan Williams — Mass in G minor
- Michael Tippett — The Weeping Babe
- Johann Sebastian Bach — Prelude in C Major
- Peter Philips — Tibi Laus
- Arnold Bax — This Worldes Joie
- Francisco Guerrero — Pastores Loquebantur
- Naji Hakim — I Love the Colourful World: Tanz-Toccata
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Dum Complerentur
- Stephen Davies — Alleluia
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.
Stephen Davies
Stephen Davies, a former chorister of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, and Music Scholar of Queen’s College, Oxford, was awarded a scholarship by the Austrian Institute to study with the great organist and composer Anton Heiller at the Academy of Music in Vienna. He has since been active both in the field of music education – particularly at St Olave’s School, Orpington, where he was Director of Music for seventeen years – and as an organ recitalist. In this capacity he has given concerts in major venues throughout Europe, in New York and in New Zealand. In 2017 he gave concerts in Estonia, Germany, and Norway, and last year he performed in King’s College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He founded the Sine Nomine Singers in 1994 and conducted this chamber choir for almost 20 years, giving concerts in local venues as well as in Estonia, France and Germany. He was Director of Music here at St George’s from 2002 to 2016.
From the programme of 15 October 2022.
The choir
Sopranos
- Kathryn Bartlett
- Jenny Burgess
- Emma Collins
- Ros Logan
- Karen Mackintosh
- Katie Mackintosh
- Sue Oldham
- Sue Thompson
Altos
- Fiona Davey
- Nicholas Mitchell
- Natalie Robinson
- Jill Saudek
- Isobel Whelan
- Carol Whinnom
Tenors
- Alex Callard
- Nick Eastwood
- Martin Fosten
- Keith Giles
- Andy Jackson
- Matthew Price
- Nick Stein
Basses
- Ralph Barlow
- Charlie Crabtree
- James Loader
- Bob Pruden
- Clive Richards
- Roger Thorpe