Unity in Division
About the concert
We celebrated the solo talents of some of our members in our concert on 12 October 2019, and, after hearing the men sing alone, and the women sing alone, combined in ten parts in Scarlatti’s glorious, Stabat Mater.
Programme
- Josef Rheinberger — Abendlied
- Benjamin Britten — Missa Brevis
- P Casals — O vos omnes
- Aram Khachaturian — Toccata
- Franz Schubert — Ständchen
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy — Richte Mich Gott (Psalm 43, Judge Me O God)
- Barbara Strozzi — Silentio Nocivo
- Johann Sebastian Bach — Presto from Sonata No 1 in G Minor BWV 1001
- Manuel de Falla — Danse Espagnole from La Vida Breve
- Domenico Scarlatti — Stabat Mater
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.
The choir
Sopranos
- Kathryn Bartlett
- Jenny Burgess
- Penny Davies
- Nancy Khan
- Karen Mackintosh
- Katie Mackintosh
- Sue Oldham
- Sue Thompson
- Carol Whinnom
Altos
- Catherine Crabtree
- Fiona Davey
- Natalie Robinson
- Jill Saudek
- Isobel Whelan
Tenors
- David Coronel
- Jonathan Coulson
- Andy Jackson
- Craig Myers
- Nick Stein
- Roger Thorpe
Basses
- Ralph Barlow
- James Loader
- Bob Pruden
- Clive Richards
- Peter Thompson