FRANK SONOROS LINKEDIN PROFESSIONAL
Two outcomes are particularly important for us – an amazing opportunity for our students to experience sitting and singing next to professional musicians, and secondly, sharing the experience with singers in our local community and connecting through music.” – Victoria Ely, conductor & Artistic Director of Music at Reading “ Choral Inspirations with Sonoro will bring so much to the music programme at the University of Reading. The project draws on the wide impact and success of Choral Inspirations Vol 1 in 2019 and contributes brand new music to the choral repertoire. Led by conductor Neil Ferris and Sonoro’s professional singers, the workshops are open to all and aim to give choirs the confidence to sing more ambitious and contemporary music – and by touring and workshopping the music, it means that the new pieces get directly into the consciousness of choirs up and down the country. All twelve pieces are released in a new album, Choral Inspirations: Volume 2, available from Spotify, AppleMusic, Deezer and YouTube.įrom July 2022 to March 2023, Sonoro will take all twelve pieces on tour to provide workshop, side-by-side performance and “come and sing” opportunities with choirs around the UK in Newcastle, Derbyshire, Chester, Reading and London. Bach/ Gareth Treseder Jesu, joy of our desiringĪll six pieces, and the 6 classic partner pieces, are recorded by Sonoro and released online as freely accessible video and audio tracks, both as tools to help choirs learning the works, as well as for anyone to listen to and enjoy. Johannes Brahms Geistliches Lied/ Michael Higgins See, I am God.Antonio Lotti Crucifixus a 8/ Cecilia McDowall Crucifixus Reimagined.César Franck/ Rebecca Dale Panis angelicus.Edward Elgar/ Oliver Tarney The Spirit of the Lord.As well as introducing six new works into the choral repertoire, our aim is to encourage amateur choirs to have the confidence to sing more ambitious and contemporary music, and we are looking forward to introducing our wonderful new pieces to our partner choirs around the country.” Neil Ferris continues: “ The composers of our new commissions have all been so skilful at writing at a suitable level for amateur choirs, without being simplistic.” Following on from the success of the first Choral Inspirations project in 2019, Sonoro has launched Choral Inspirations: Volume 2, a collection of six contemporary works for choir inspired by well-known ‘choral classics’ by Bach, Brahms, Elgar, Franck, Lotti and Mozart, written at a level that choirs everywhere will be able to sing.Ĭomposers Rebecca Dale, Michael Higgins, Cecilia McDowall, Oliver Tarney, Gareth Treseder and Errollyn Wallen CBE have been commissioned by Sonoro to write new works for choir, each inspired by well-known choral classics, such as Franck’s Panis angelicus and J S Bach’s Jesu, joy of our desiring.Īrtistic Directors Neil Ferris and Michael Higgins say, “ We are so happy to be able to continue the ‘Choral Inspirations’ project and build on the outstanding success of the first set of new pieces in 2019.
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