SACRED MUSIC HOURS. SINGING EUROPE

RUN BY SINGERS EUROPA CHOIR
Conductor JEREMY JACKMAN (UK)
Organist JONATHAN LILLEY (UK)

After concerts in Leipzig, Vienna and Paris, the RBS Europa Choir will again be appearing at St Casimir’s Church where they have already enchanted the public with their sound. This scenario is sure to be repeated, as none other than Jeremy Jackman will be taking to the conductor’s podium.

His biography reads like a kind of chronicle of English choir music. Starting his career as a choir singer at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, he later joined the vocal collectives The Tallis Scholars, The Sixteen and The King’s Singers. Heading the English Baroque Choir for twenty years, he participated in concert tours performing at exclusive venues such as Royal Albert Hall and Venice’s St Mark’s Basilica.

The programme selected for St Casimir’s Church is reminiscent of a journey across five centuries: 16th-century polyphony, spanning the gentle melancholy of Fauré, Rossini’s energy and Mendelssohn’s prayer for peace, right up to Britten’s modern hymn of glory. And for the finale – an unexpected Lithuanian accent: Jackman’s own arrangement of Kur giria žaliuoja (Where the Green Woods Grow).

This is a concert that’s appealing not just for its music but also for the communal spirit of choir singers gathered from different European countries, enveloping and elevating every one who attends.

Programme features music by John Sheppard, Gabriel Fauré, Felix Mendelssohn, Benjamin Britten and others

Free admission