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Tenebrae
Tenebrae is a professional chamber choir, founded and directed by Nigel Short. Often performing by candlelight, the choir creates an atmosphere of spiritual and musical reflection, where medieval chant and renaissance works are interspersed with contemporary works. The carefully selected team of singers uses the acoustic and atmosphere of the building to enable the audience to experience the power and intimacy of the human voice at its best.

Singers are drawn from outstanding musical backgrounds – King's College Cambridge, Westminster Abbey and Cathedral, St Paul's Cathedral, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden and English National Opera – to create a unique vocal mix with an extraordinary range of vocal power and colour. It was born out of Nigel Short's desire to bring together what he loved best in his own singing career - namely the passionate sounds of large Cathedral choirs and the precision of ensembles like The King's Singers – to create a new kind of choral group.

www.tenebrae-choir.com

Alamire
One of the leading vocal consorts in the UK, Alamire has an enviable line-up of some of the finest consort singers under the charismatic directorship of David Skinner. Inspired by the great choral works of the medieval and early modern periods, the ensemble creates colourful programmes to illustrate musical or historical themes. David Skinner and Alamire record exclusively for Obsidian Records, for whom they have won a number of awards. Their groundbreaking CD of the complete motets of the Cantiones Sacrae 1575 of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd is the first in the exciting project entitled Library of Early English Church Music a series of 30 recordings which will explore the highlights of the repertoire.

www.alamire.co.uk

Cantabile - The London Quartet
Cantabile have been delighting audiences since 1982 with their amazing range of programmes. From a cappella favourites to the sacred music of the last millennium they are outstanding in both Comedy and the Classics.

They are supported by thirteen solo albums, over 2,000 live performances and more than 200 TV appearances worldwide. Musicals in London's West End, Galas aboard Queen Elizabeth 2, Concerts in New York's Carnegie Hall, Opera in the Covent Garden Festival, Jazz with the BBC Big Band, Classical Parodies in front of 40,000 people at the BBC Proms in the Park or customised Cabarets for corporate clients - the Cantabile experience draws gasps of admiration wherever it goes.

www.cantabile.com

Gallicantus
The early music ensemble Gallicantus was born within the ranks of the Tenebrae Choir, when six of the choir’s regulars, each with a wealth of experience in the world of consort singing, decided to form a separate group dedicated to renaissance music. Literally meaning Rooster Song or cock crow, Gallicantusis a word from monastic antiquity for the office held just before the dawn. It evokes the renewal of life offered by the coming day. Directed by Gabriel Crouch, the group is bound by a shared love of communicating text, and is committed to creating performances which draw out unifying themes within apparently diverse repertoire: To this end they are as meticulous about providing context and insight for audiences as they are about crafting interpretations of the music they love.

www.gallicantus.com

Grace Davidson, soprano
Having been greatly in demand as a consort singer with all the UK’s leading ensembles, including The English Concert,The Gabrieli Consort, The Monteverdi Choir, Ex Cathedra, Alamire, The Tallis Scholars, i Fagiolini, Tenebrae, The BBC Singers and ensemble plus ultra, Grace is now becoming a popular soloist, specialising in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Grace has recorded Handel’s Dixit Dominus for Harry Christophers on the Coro label, appears regularly with the saxophonist Christian Forshaw and features on his albums Renouncement and Midwinter. Grace is also the soprano soloist on Eric Whitacre's "Light and Gold" album. More details here

www.gracedavidsonsoprano.com

David Allsopp, countertenor
A choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, David Allsopp has performed many of Handel’s oratorios such as Messiah, Israel in Egypt, Joshua and Solomon. In 2009/10 he sang Daniel in Belshazzar’s Feast at the London Handel Festival and gave a series of Bach’s St Matthew Passion concerts in the UK and Holland. He also played Hercules in The Choice of Hercules in Freiburg. He sang Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers throughout the season with conductors such as Paul McCreesh. This season he performs Bach’s Christmas Oratorio conducted by Richard Cooke, Messiah in the Frauenkirche, Dresden and City Solstice by John Harle with King’s College Choir at The Sage, Gateshead. David made his debut at the BBC Proms last season singing in Arvo Pärt’s Passio and in 2009 sang Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with Wayne Marshall and Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra. Other performance details can be seen here.

www.davisallsopp.com