June and August 2026: Songs of Turmoil
Lady Clare’s Consort’s Summer Tour explores a plethora of music surrounding themes of conflict, turmoil and change. Spanning the likes of Tallis and Gombert to Poulenc and Cecilia McDowall, hear over 500 years of music within our new programme for August 2026.
St Botolph’s Church, Cambridge 11th June | 8:00pm
St George’s Cullercoats 4th August | 7:30pm
St Helen’s York 5th August | 7:30pm
Bolton Abbey Priory 7th August | 7:30pm [tickets available here]
Burton Leonard 8th August | 7:30pm In collaboration with Dementia Forward
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[apart from Bolton Abbey – please click here for more information]
July 2025:
Lady Clare’s Consort @ Brecon Choir Festival:
A celebration of the 500th anniversary of Palestrina’s birth presented by renaissance specialists Lady Clare’s Consort.
Saturday 19 July 2025 / Sunday 20 July 2025
Brecon Choir Festival, Wales
Lady Clare’s Consort present “The Art of Imitation”
Cambridge based Vocal Ensemble: Lady Clare’s Consort present: “The Art of Imitation”
This tour programme included a range of works by Palestrina, Gustav Holst and William Harris.
Monday 21st 2025 / Tuesday 22nd 2025 / Wednesday 23rd 2025
Bridgenorth, Bolton, Burton Leonard
Christ the Light: September Tour
St John’s Notting Hill, London, 12th September 2024
St Dominic’s Priory Church, London, 13th September 2024
Sherborne Abbey, Dorset, 14th September 2024
Our September programme, Christ the Light, contains choral music centred around settings of the compline hymn, Christe qui lux es et dies, by William Byrd and Robert White, both of whom died 450 years ago. We conclude with White’s setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, a sorrowful yet resounding renaissance masterpiece.
Musicke Divine: Summer Tour
St George’s, Cullercoats, 22nd July 2024
St Andrew’s Church, Newcastle, 23rd July 2024
St John’s, Sharow, 25th July 2024
Bolton Abbey Priory, Skipton, 26th July 2024
The group’s programme, titled Musicke Divine, features works by English composers from the 16th century up to the start of the 21st century. Many of the works use texts that celebrate or describe music, and the programme includes works by William Byrd, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Benjamin Britten’s ‘Hymn to St Cecilia’.
Musicke Divine
St Botolph’s Church, Cambridge, 11th June 2024, 1:15pm
A programme featuring works by English composers from the 16th century up to the start of the 21st century. Many of the works use texts that celebrate or describe music, and the programme includes works by William Byrd, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Benjamin Britten’s ‘Hymn to St Cecilia’.
Songs of Farewell
Royal Holloway Chapel, Egham, 16th March 2024, 7:30pm
Join Lady Clare’s Consort’s Lenten concert series as they collaborate with newly founded London-based ensemble, Hemiola, for a feast of choral music including Hubert Parry’s ‘Songs of Farewell’ and Howells’ ‘Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing’.
Par Son Art
Croydon Minster, London, 3rd February 2024, 8:00pm
Lady Clare’s Consort along with eight professional singers, led by our past member Jasper Schoff, celebrated Bouzignac in a concert of French Renaissance music, along with new commissions from the likes of Greg May, Mark Zhang and Victoria Longstaff.
Byrd’s Music for advent
Clare College Chapel, Cambridge, November 2023, 8:00pm
Lady Clare’s Consort perform a varied programme centred around both the Byrd’s advent music and his five part mass.
Lamentations
Clare College Chapel, Cambridge, 28th February 2024, 9:30pm
Lady Clare’s Consort perform a varied programme centred around both the Byrd and Lobo Lamentations in a CCMS evening of reflection.
Songs of Farewell
Clare College Chapel, Cambridge, 3rd March 2024, 6:00pm
Join Lady Clare’s Consort’s Lenten concert series as they collaborate with newly founded London-based ensemble, Hemiola, for a feast of choral music including Hubert Parry’s ‘Songs of Farewell’ and Howells’ ‘Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing’.
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