The Apollo Baroque Consort was founded in 2011 by Joe Waggott and Chris Fitzgerald-Lombard to explore the wealth of early vocal and choral music of the 17th and 18th centuries, much of which remains largely unknown today. The group bring together their experience as early music specialists to record and perform some of these great [...]

Hugh Benham is organist and choir director at the Anglican church of St. Boniface in Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire, and is active in The Guild of Church Musicians. He is a writer of academic and educational articles and books, and a chair of examiners for GCE Music.

Hugh Benham read English and Music at the University of Southampton. For Music he studied [...]

Rob Keeley studied with Oliver Knussen at the Royal College of Music, Magdalen College Oxford under Bernard Rose, and later with Robert Saxton.

In 1988 he studied at Rome’s Accademia Santa Cecilia with Franco Donatoni, and at the Tanglewood Summer Music School, where he was Benjamin Britten Fellow in Composition, working with Oliver Knussen and Hans Werner Henze.

The Cathedral Choir is made up of twenty-four boy choristers and fourteen gentlemen (made up of seven lay-clerks and up to seven choral scholars) who contribute to the pattern of daily cathedral worship. The choristers rehearse on weekday mornings at 8.00am before a normal school day in preparation for the week’s music. In any normal week the Cathedral Choir sings for at least 5 services.

Jonathan Powell is a pianist and composer. After studies with Denis Matthews and Sulamita Aronovsky, he established an international career as a soloist, his programmes ranging from standard Classical and Romantic repertoire to contemporary and little-known 20th century works. He has performed widely in Europe, as well as in [...]

John White’s compositional output includes 3 operas, 26 symphonies (none for traditional orchestra), 29 ballets or “dance-works”, a number of large-scale works involving brass, “the longest work ever written for cello and tuba”, 173 piano sonatas and literally hundreds of pieces for ensembles he has initiated.

The Hogan Ensemble, established in 2008, is a chamber choir of up to twenty young singers, established and directed by Simon Hogan. Many began their careers as cathedral choristers and now hold prestigious music and choral scholarships at a number of schools and universities. The choir has performed concerts to critical acclaim [...]

DISCANTVS is a voluntarily group of mainly longstanding philosophy students united by a love of music and singing. Formed in 1988, it has over the years performed in many places in the UK and Europe. Its repertory is predominantly drawn from sacred English music written between the 15th to 18th centuries, although they are [...]

Established in July 2009 by Adrian Green and Alexander Norman, Convivium Singers is a group of musicians who perform a wide variety of vocal and choral music. Its aim is to provide opportunities for young singers at the early stages of performing careers, as well as for talented musicians who have chosen not to pursue careers in the music, but [...]