Exultate Singers’ new CD was released on the Naxos label on 1st May 2012. The title track is All Shall Be Well by Roxanna Panufnik, the work that Exultate Singers commissioned in 2009 for concert marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The CD includes other music for choir and cello, performed with the cellist Richard May: John Tavener’s Svyati and Knut Nystedt’s Stabat Mater, alongside choral works ranging from Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst to Jaakko Mäntyjärvi. CDs are available to purchase on the Exultate Singers’ website, Providence Music shop, Amazon, HMV, etc, and to download from iTunes or Amazon or to stream on Spotify
Exultate Singers at the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
Saturday 19th May at 7.30pm – St Pancras Church, Euston Road, London
David conducts Exultate Singers as it makes its London concert debut at the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music. The choir will give the UK premiere of a setting of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis which it has co-commissioned from Roxanna Panufnik, along with the London debut of her work All Shall Be Well. The concert also includes a performance of Francis Grier’s moving work for choir, organ and cello, Sword in the Soul. Tickets are £15 (£10 concessions) available online from the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music box office or Exultate Singers’ shop or by phone from 020 7388 1461.
David conducts BBC One’s Songs of Praise
BBC One, Sunday 1st April at 4.40pm David conducts Songs of Praise on Palm Sunday with seasonal music from the congregation at All Saints Church, Cheltenham in a programme presented by Sally Magnusson. The story of Jesus’s last week is told with Bible readings by Julian Rhind-Tutt.
Exultate Singers: Easter Mysteries – music for Holy Week
Wednesday 4th April 2012 at 7.45pm, St James Priory, Bristol
David conducts Exultate Singers in an exquisite programme of music for Holy Week including excerpts from Francis Grier’s moving work Sword in the Soul, Frank Martin’s sumptuous Mass for Double Choir and pieces for cello and choir with the cellist Richard May.
Programme includes:
Knut Nystedt – Stabat Mater for choir and solo cello
John Tavener – Svyati for choir and solo cello
Francis Grier – Excerpts from Sword in the Soul
Frank Martin – Mass for Double Choir
John Tavener – Threnos for solo cello
Tickets from Providence Music shop on 0117 927 6536 or online at www.exultatesingers.org
Bristol Schools Chamber Choir concert in aid of Childreach International
Friday 16th March 2012 at 7.45pm, St James Priory, Whitson Street, Bristol BS1 3NZ
David conducts the Bristol Schools Chamber Choir in a concert of music from the 17th century to the present day including excerpts from Pergolesi’s exquisite setting of the Stabat Mater and folk songs from around the British Isles. Given in aid of Childreach International, a UK registered charity that has worked with over 70,000 children in the developing world in the past year, improving children’s access to healthcare, education, child rights and protection. Tickets £5 on the door, under 18s free of charge
RSCM Millennium Youth Choir Easter Course
Tuesday 10th – Friday 13th April – Tonbridge School, Kent
David conducts the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir as they record a new CD in the chapel of Tonbridge School in Kent. The CD will feature music by composers with RSCM connections including pieces by Thomas Hewitt Jones and Owain Park.
A Celebration for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
Saturday 26th May 2012 at 7.30pm, St Alban’s Church, Westbury Park, Bristol
In the year celebrating the Diamond Anniversary of the accession to the throne of Queen Elizabeth II, City of Bristol Choir present a concert of music for Royal Occasions. From the anthems of Boyce, Purcell and Handel through to the music of Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Parry, Walton and more recently John Rutter and Paul Mealor, this concert for choir, organ and brass is a wonderful celebration of British music and the role of the monarchy through the ages.
Tickets £13 (concessions £11, under 18s £5) from City of Bristol Choir booking line by telephone on 07932 711379 (card payments accepted) or from Providence Music shop on 0117 927 6536
Music for the Royal Collection’s Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci exhibition
Wednesday 30th May at 7.30pm
David conducts Exultate Singers in a concert given in the marvellous acoustic of the central hall of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. The concert will accompany an exhibition of Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci from the Royal Collection which is being toured around the country and being shown at the museum from 31 March until 10 June.
Organised in collaboration with Dr Jenny Gaschke, Fine Art Curator at the museum, we will perform a programme of music inspired by the work of Leonardo from the 16th century to the present day including madrigals and motets by Monteverdi, Palestrina, Gabrieli and Whitacre. Audience members will be able to view the exhibition in a timed slot either before the concert, during the interval, or after the concert. Tickets are £15 and go on sale at the beginning of March from the Museum shop in person and by telephone on 0117 922 3571.
Come & Sing Royal Music for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with David
Saturday 16th June 2012, 10am – 4pm at St Monica Trust, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol
David leads an inspiring Come and Sing day for All4Music, the education arm of The Bristol Ensemble. Come and sing Royal Music in celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Music by Handel, Purcell, Elgar, Parry and Stanford including Zadok the Priest and Parry’s I was Glad which was sung at the Royal Wedding in 2011. An uplifting day’s singing with David whose boundless enthusiasm and wonderful humour will inspire you to sing whatever your level of experience!
PRICE £27.50 (save 10% when booked with another course)
A two course hot lunch is available for £8.40. Book with All4Music by calling 07785 983097 or book online at www.all4music.co.uk
City of Bristol Choir: St John Passion
Sunday 11th March 2012 at 7.30pm David conducts City of Bristol Choir and The Bristol Ensemble with a performance of Bach’s St John Passion, the most personal and meditative of Bach’s Passion settings. In music of simple beauty and power, Christ’s final days are dramatized with real intimacy, centred on the Evangelist who narrates the story in the words of the gospel. In this bilingual performance, the words of the Evangelist will be sung in English by the tenor Jeremy Budd (a full time member of The Sixteen) providing clarity and heightening the drama. Arias and chorales in the original German provide reflections throughout. Tickets are available from the City of Bristol Choir ticket line on 07932 711379 or from St George’s box office on 0845 40 24 001, or online at www.cityofbristolchoir.co.uk