Harpist Louise Thomson is joining forces with the fabulous up-and-coming vocal ensemble, the New Oxford Consort.
This exciting new collaboration, born out of a shared enthusiasm for the lesser-known and rarely-performed repertoire for choir and harp, and for the wonderful, rich and varied programmes of music it offers, can now be booked for 2020, 2020-21 and, indeed, the seasons beyond.
The singers are all young professionals in the early stages of their singing careers, including alumni choral scholars of Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, Royal Holloway and Manchester universities, as well as London conservatoires. Members of the group have sung with the Tallis Scholars, Tenebrae, BBC Singers, SANSARA, I Fagiolini, Siglo de Oro, Genesis Sixteen, echo choir, Carice Singers, and the choirs of Merton, Queen’s, Christ Church and New Colleges, Oxford. The New Oxford Consort is directed by its founder, Freddie Crowley, a recent Music graduate of Merton College, Oxford.
“[The New Oxford Consort’s debut concert] was a great occasion, for all sorts of reasons. I much admired the shaping of the programme, the quality of the performance and the exciting promise which the evening showed – both in terms of the Consort as a whole, and Freddie’s abilities as its director and guiding spirit… It was a truly memorable evening.” Dame Janet Ritterman
