The Phoenix Choir: Summer Concert
This show at the Usher Hall will be the Phoenix Choir's biggest yet! The Phoenix Choir is an umbrella of four fabulous choirs in Edinburgh. Each of the groups cater to a different area and style, but they are all up-beat, encouraging and follow the ethos that music should be made with passion and open to all!
Edinburgh International Festival: All Rise
Wynton Marsalis’s magnificent work, All Rise, is the inspiration behind this year’s Festival theme. This massive jazz symphony in 12 movements, a tribute to the 12-bar blues, blends musical influences from around the world in a full-blooded expression of the human condition.
It traces a journey from birth, play and self-discovery, through pain and sacrifice, to maturity and joy. Teeming with the multiplicity, contradiction and surprise which life brings us, the music swings from juba to blues, via a New Orleans funeral and the rhythms of a train, to classical and jazz, in an exhilarating conversation.
Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra join forces with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and Jason Max Ferdinand Singers – all under the baton of the renowned James Gaffigan. With over 200 performers on stage, this glorious ‘thunder’ of a work is a monumental opening to our Usher Hall series.
Edinburgh International Festival: This Shining Night
The Edinburgh Festival Chorus joins with our Rising Stars for a programme of American music from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Coleridge-Taylor’s The Song of Hiawatha
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s choral masterpiece is performed for the first time at the Festival, with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and conductor Rafael Payare.
Mahler’s Das klagende Lied
Seize a rare chance to hear Gustav Mahler’s epic cantata Das klagende Lied (The Song of Lamentation).
The Edinburgh Festival Chorus performs with a team of first-rate soloists and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of their former Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles, who is credited as making the orchestra sound ‘explosively alert’ (The Scotsman).
Live music at Heath Street Baptist Church, London
I’ll be performing imaginative church music to soothe and inspire at the morning service at Heath Street Baptist Church, Hampstead, London.
Mahler's Symphony No.2 ‘Resurrection' in Edinburgh
A man stands alone at the grave of a friend. Shattered by grief, he shakes his fist at the heavens and begins a journey that will take him to the end of the world and beyond. The sheer ambition of Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony staggers the imagination—an emotional odyssey on a cosmic scale, embracing tragedy, hope, dark humour, and even Judgement Day itself.
I’ll be singing with the Edinburgh Festical Chorus in this concert.
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