Concert: Robert Hollingworth & Cantus Avium Copenhagen

Date: Saturday 3rd August 2024, 15.30-16.30
Tickets: 125 kr. (75 kr. for students) via Billetto.dk.

Concert in St Alban's

The concert is a culmination of a fruitful collaboration between the professional vocal ensemble Cantus Avium Copenhagen and Robert Hollingworth - one of the world's absolute greatest choral conductors and specialists in vocal music.

Robert Hollingworth is particularly known for his award-winning vocal ensemble I Fagiolini, which he founded in 1986. In addition to I Fagiolini, he has conducted ensembles such as DR Vokalensemblet, BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, The Irish Baroque Orchestra, Accentus, NDR Chor, RIAS Kammerchor, Netherlands Chamber Choir, National Chamber Choir of Ireland and Capella Cracoviensis. He is also a fantastic presenter of classical choral and ensemble music. From countless podcasts to live concerts, Hollingworth generously shares his vast knowledge and lifelong experience working with world-class choral music. Hollingworth can convey the music in a way that is interesting both to top professional musicians and people without musical skills. Through text interpretation, musical analysis and exposure of singing technical focal points, Hollingworth often gives the audience a unique and detailed insight into the music and the challenges of the performing musicians. All told with Hollingworth's distinctive, quirky British humour.

You can look forward to all this at the concert with Cantus Avium Copenhagen, who in collaboration with the Vokamusikforeningen have invited the great conductor to Copenhagen. The ensemble will work with Hollingworth over four days with three days of rehearsals as well as this final concert taking place in St Alban's Church.

Cantus Avium Copenhagen usually sings without a conductor and works as a solo-ensemble like chamber musicians who respond vividly and intuitively to each other without compromising the overall sound. At the concert, Cantus Avium Copenhagen will perform vocal music from the English Tudor period - a dangerous and turbulent time in English history but also a glorious time in music with composers such as William Byrd, Robert Parsons and Thomas Tallis. The vocal music of the Tudor period is evocative, meditative and grand, where sonorous voices intertwine in wonderful constellations. Cantus Avium Copenhagen specialises in precisely this music and is particularly inspired by the composer William Byrd. Their name means 'bird song' in Latin after the English pun 'Byrdsong'.

Open Rehearsals

In addition to the concert, there is also the opportunity to take part in the vocal ensemble's rehearsals with Robert Hollingworth on 31 July, 1 August and 2 August. The open rehearsals take place in St. Alban's Church between 11 and 13. Entry is free.

Singers

Marie-Louise Zervides (soprano)
Nanna Varmer Ipsen (alto)
Nils Greenhow (tenor)
Emil Fredberg (tenor)
Adam Leckius (bass)