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Corvus Consort awarded Genesis Kickstart Fund grant
Vocal Ensemble the Corvus Consort has been awarded a £10,000 grant by the Genesis Foundation as part of the prestigious Genesis Kickstart Fund to support their debut recording ‘Revoiced’.
Established during the pandemic to enable outstanding freelance talent to thrive in paid work, the Genesis Foundation has awarded a total of £1million across 95 future-facing projects and supported more than 1,000 freelance creatives in the UK.
Reproaches, Lamentation & Penitence: choral music for Lent with the Corvus Consort
The first three days of April will see the Corvus Consort embark on a mini-tour of three concerts featuring their programme of Lenten choral music “Reproaches, Lamentation and Penitence”.
Exploring themes of repentance, lamentation and petitions for mercy, their programme features Renaissance music by William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Vicente Lusitano and Sulpitia Cesis, as well as contemporary works by John Sanders and James MacMillan.
Three concerts in three days will see the Consort at Clifton Cathedral in Bristol on Friday 1st April and Buckfast Abbey in Devon on Saturday 2nd April, before finishing in London at St Mary’s Church, Islington, on Sunday 3rd April.
In Windsor Forest: Corvus and Ferio at Chiltern Arts
The combined forces of Corvus Consort and Ferio Saxophone Quartet look forward to a concert for Chiltern Arts in Henley on 26th February. The Chiltern Arts Festival Weekend opens with Tenebrae at Dorchester Abbey on Friday 25th February, followed by Corvus Consort and Ferio Saxophone Quartet’s concert on the Saturday.
Their programme will feature a first half of music from their core collaboration of Baroque vocal works re-imagined for voices and saxophones, and a second half of 20th- and 21st-century music, including a brand new arrangement of Vaughan Williams’s cantata In Windsor Forest, commissioned by Chiltern Arts specially for this concert.
Corvus Consort give world premieres in Christmas concerts
The Corvus Consort looks forward to a weekend of Christmas concerts 11-12 December, at St James’s Church, Islington, London and at the Lamberhurst Music Society in Kent.
Both programmes will feature a selection of festive music old and new, including lesser-known carols as well as familiar favourites.