‘Joy & Devotion’ 2023 - Artists
The ‘Joy & Devotion’ festival, celebrating the great tradition of sacred choral music from Poland from across the centuries, returns to St Martin-in-the-Fields this November.
Now in its third year, ‘Joy & Devotion’ is built around three main evening concerts from esteemed British choirs: The Brabant Ensemble, The Carice Singers and The Epiphoni Consort.
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The Brabant Ensemble, © The Brabant Ensemble
The Brabant Ensemble is one of the most highly regarded professional vocal groups specializing in Renaissance polyphony, with a substantial discography including many première recordings. It takes its name from the Duchy of Brabant, an area now forming parts of northern Belgium and the southern Netherlands, from which the core of its repertory is drawn. It was founded in 1998 by Stephen Rice in order to perform the so far under-exposed sacred music of the mid-sixteenth century. Since then the ensemble has taken a leading role not only in the rehabilitation of composers such as Nicolas Gombert, Thomas Crecquillon, and Pierre de Manchicourt, all of whom it has recorded on Hyperion, but also of the continued exploration of major figures such as Lassus, Palestrina, and Obrecht. Its recording of Mouton was Disc of the Week on BBC Radio 3’s CDReview; other discs have been shortlisted for Gramophone Awards four times, and have won similar acclaim internationally.
The Brabant Ensemble is in international demand on the concert stage, having performed in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, and Slovenia. The Ensemble made its debut at London’s Wigmore Hall in September 2016.
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The Epiphoni Consort, © AMI/Marcin Urban/UrbanRec
The Epiphoni Consort was founded in 2014 by Tim Reader to fill a gap between the amateur and professional tiers of London’s choral circuit. Its members comprise a number of people who sing to a professional standard but have other full-time careers.
The group has won awards in Tenebrae’s prestigious Locus Iste Competition and in the London International A Cappella Choir Competition, and has appeared on television on the BBC4 documentary 'The Joy of Rachmaninov' and the BBC2 documentary 'Terry Pratchett: Back In Black', singing Tallis’s forty part motet Spem in alium. The choir’s three recordings 'Sudden Light', 'When Love Speaks' and 'Precious Things' on the Delphian Records label have been received with critical acclaim from Gramophone, Choir and Organ Magazine, BBC Radio 3, BBC Music Magazine and numerous online reviewers.
Recent performances have included 'Rachmaniniov All-Night Vigil', 'Durufle Requiem' with Echo Ensemble and 'Walton Belshazzar’s Feast' at Fairfield Halls with Kensington Symphony Orchestra.
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The Carice Singers, © The Carice Singers
The Carice Singers is emerging as one of the most distinctive vocal ensembles in the UK, defined by its unique sound and imaginative choice of repertoire. Founded in 2011, the ensemble began life focusing on Elgar’s part-songs, naming themselves after the composer’s daughter and only child.
Just as Carice showed a quiet but resolute sense of duty in securing her father's legacy, so is the group committed to promoting curiosity and appreciation for its ever widening repertoire amongst people of all ages.
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Rupert Jeffcoat - © AMI/Marcin Urban/UrbanRec
Rupert Jeffcoat hails from Scotland where he was a chorister at St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. He was a scholar and organ scholar at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and also assisted regularly at both King’s and St John's Colleges. A pupil of Peter Hurford and Peter le Huray, he gained his FRCO (as a prizewinner) less than 3 years after first approaching the bench.
After a teaching spell in Yorkshire, Rupert became Assistant Organist at St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, working at the Conservatoire and with Ex Cathedra, before being sent to Coventry as Director of Music at its iconic Cathedral aged only 26. In addition to introducing repertoire from 10 centuries and in 20 languages into its liturgies, Rupert took the Cathedral choir on tours to Japan, Russia and South Africa. He was then Director of Music and Organist for over 5 years at Brisbane Cathedral, re-invigorating the music programme and ensuring the restoration of its fine organ. In that time he also gave many pre-concert talks for the Australian String Quartet and is still active as a writer, reviewer and teacher.
Rupert is well-known as an accompanist, recording as a continuo-player with Emma Kirkby, broadcasting with the BBC Singers, as well as giving hundreds of recitals in the UK and abroad as a soloist. As well as his Cambridge degree, he holds a PhD in Composition, with his 'Third Service' having been performed by Cathedral Choirs on every continent (except Antarctica!). Radio 3 judged his 'La Nativité du Seigneur' (Regent Records) ‘lively, inventive and imaginative’, while Gramophone Magazine has called him ‘truly virtuosic’. As Organist at St Luke's Church, Chelsea, since 2011, he delights in presenting repertoire which is underplayed, unplayed or even unplayable!
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