NEWS

A note from Gabriele Faja 18/11/09

Hi All,

Just to say that our first autumn performance is now imminent - we begin with Brighton at St George's Church in Kemp Town. This Friday at 7:30pm.

Julian's interview with BBC Devon is up and you can hear the whole programme by clicking here>>

See you in Brighton I hope!

Gabriele

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A note from Gabriele Faja 10/11/09

Hello!

Classic FM is now featuring our newly released CD!

Click here to see >>

Join us on December 16th St James’s Piccadilly for our CD launch Champagne Xmas event!

See you soon,

Gabriele

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A note from Gabriele Faja 5/11/09

Hi all!

Just to say that we have now 177 (and counting) on our new Facebook Group, cehck it out on the blue link below. Also we have a nice article/interview from Open Magazine which you can check out clicking on the pink link!

New staff have now come on board: Grace Billings is now our admin super person and Paul Hussell is doing an amazing jop in raising profile and cash! We shouldn't forget John Cronin (press and Media) and Julian himself, who is foinf a LOT of work.

The choir is changing and chopping a bit, to allow for extra dates (hush hush, we have a tour in UK and Germany we hear) and our CD looks awesome and it will be sold at our autumn gigs, check 'concerts and events on left.

Keep coming back for details of our planned tour dates by joining our mailing list!

Bye for now!

Gabriele

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(Julian 5/9/09)

Hello all!

So the dust had hardly settled, following the glorious mayhem of our March premiere concerts, when we began recording ‘Out of the Darkness’. This turned into quite a lengthy and a deeply engaging process. I am extremely grateful to all the musicians involved who worked so hard to produce a great result.

 I am also extremely grateful to Philip Bagenal who engineered and co-produced the record with me. Philip’s incredible engineering and musical skills proved to be an invaluable contribution to the project.

The CD features the exact same cast of players as from the march premiere concerts; Melanie Pappenheim as mezzo soprano soloist, Sophie Harris and Lucy Railton (‘cellos) and the choir now known as ‘Schoolhouse 6 Ensemble’ and all conducted Howard Moody.

As well as ‘Out of the Darkness’, the CD features the glorious ‘Island Chapel’ by Gavin Bryars (previously unreleased) which was specially composed for Melanie Pappenheim and Sophie Harris plus a simply stunning version of Arvo Part’s ‘Spiegel im Spiegel’ featuring Sophie Harris accompanied by her husband Ian Belton on piano.

We have now just finished mastering the CD and it will be released in November.

To take advantage of our special pre release CD offer click here.

I am much looking forward to our autumn concerts in Brighton (Nov 20th), Totnes (28th) and London (Dec 16th). These will feature the same programme as for our March concerts and includes: excerpts from William Byrd’s 4-part mass, Gorecki solo ‘cello sonata (Sophie Harris, ‘cello) and Arvo Part ‘Spiegel im Spiegel’ (Sophie Harris accompanied by Jonathan Williams, piano). I love this programme and look forward to repeating it many times! We will make some programme changes for our London concert, however. As it’s on December 16th at St James’ Piccadilly, we felt we should give it a slightly more Christmassy feel.

Details to be announced soon.

To order tickets for any of our autumn concerts click here.

A very exciting development for me is the coming together of a truly wonderful team – dedicated to promoting ‘Out of the Darkness’ and future projects.

I will introduce you to these people in due course, but suffice to say just now that we have started planning for a 30 date tour through 2010/11 – including concerts in the UK and abroad. More details soon.

New work More details announced soon, but do put September 16th 2010 in your diarY! There will be, all being well, a premiere of something that evening at St James’ PiccadillY!