The Choral Pilgrimage 2010

Ceremony and Devotion - Music for the Tudors

The 2010 tour will be The Sixteen's tenth Choral Pilgrimage, and will focus on some of the finest music by three leading Tudor composers: John Sheppard, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd. At the heart of the programme is Sheppard’s monumental antiphon Media vita in morte sumus and Byrd’s deeply personal setting of Infelix ego. All three composers lived through decades of religious turmoil in mid-sixteenth-century England and expressed in different ways their devotion to the Catholic faith

Programme

William Byrd	Laudibus in sanctis
	Haec dies
	Infelix ego
Thomas Tallis	Jesu salvator saeculi, redemptis Miserere nostri Iam Christus astra ascenderat
John Sheppard	Media vita in morte sumus
	Sacris solemniis

Tickets: National Centre for Early Music 01904 651 485 or click here to buy online

Behind the Music: Participation & Learning

Choral Workshops

Saturday 5 June Blackburn

Saturday 12 June Norwich

Saturday 18 September Tewkesbury *FULL*

Saturday 16 October Edinburgh

These popular workshops, led by Eamonn Dougan, The Sixteen's Assistant Conductor, and Sally Dunkley (a soprano with The Sixteen and editor of much of the Pilgrimage repertoire), focus on repertoire from the Pilgrimage programme.

Music is sent in advance so that participants can learn the dots before the day. Places are £25 per person and participants are offered a special £5 discount to the performance in the evening. Sheet music and breaktime refreshments are included in the cost.

For more information and to book please email Zoë Kirkham at zoe@thesixteen.com or telephone 020 7936 3420

Insight Day

Saturday 17 July York

Join musicologists, historians and members of The Sixteen for an afternoon of discovery.

Tickets £20 from National Centre for Early Music: 01904 651 485 / www.ncem.co.uk

Schools' Matinées

Through a partnership with the National Centre for Early Music, we plan to share the stage with hundreds of school children in a series of matinée performances. The children will learn some pieces from the Pilgrimage programme in a series of workshops, before they join The Sixteen and peers on stage in their local cathedral for an exciting final performance. Participating schools will be selected by the NCEM and The Sixteen.

Sing Up matinée in Lichfield Cathedral, July 16 2009.

Sign-interpreted concerts & 'Singing & Signing' workshops

Dr Paul Whittaker OBE will sign-interpret 7 Choral Pilgrimage performances. In addition, Paul will run workshops for children, young adults and adults who are deaf or hard of hearing.