Guildhall Cantata Project & Academy of Ancient Music
- 7.30pm
Tickets
About this event:
- Category:
- Classical Music
- Event type:
- Booking required | In-person
- Admission:
- £20 – £30
- Location:
- St Michael & All Angels Blackheath, 1 Pond Road, SE3 9JL
Event information
Join the Guildhall Cantata Project and the Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) for an intimate performance of rarely heard 17th and 18th century chamber cantatas, showcasing a new generation of vocal talent in a unique collaboration. The exact programme will be tailored to the voices of the incoming student cohort and will be announced in September.
Approximate finish time: 9.30pm (with interval)
Performers
James Johnstone director
For well over a decade, James Johnstone has led collaborations between the Vocal and Historical Performance departments at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, performing sacred and secular chamber cantatas from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as long as they are not by Bach!
As well appearing at Guildhall, the Cantata Project are regular visitors to Blackheath and Hatchlands Park and have appeared in the Spitalfields and London Handel festivals. For this project they are joined for the first time by vocalists from the Academy of Ancient Music (AAM). Guildhall is proud of its long-standing association with AAM; many of AAM’s members are Guildhall School alumni and professors. Side-by-side performance projects are a highlight of the Historical Performance students’ annual calendars. Following two years of operatic collaborations for Handel’s Alcina and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, this project expands the relationship to much more intimate music. The precise programme remains, of necessity, unknown; a new cohort of singers will walk into Guildhall for the first time in September when this programme will be cast with the sounds of their voices in mind.
