Past performances

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• 9th May 2012, Temple Church
  The Glory of Venice: Music for Voices and Brass

  The London Trumpet Choir
  Stephen Farr organist
  Stephen Layton conductor

• 5th May 2012, Trinity College, Cambridge
  The Glory of Venice: Music for Voices and Brass

  The London Trumpet Choir
  Stephen Farr organ
  Stephen Layton conductor

• 3rd March 2012, Cadogan Hall
  Conquering the Antarctic - London

  City of London Sinfonia
  Holst Singers
  Katherine Watson soprano
  Robert Murray tenor
  Stephen Layton conductor
  

  Vaughan Williams Excerpts from Scott of the Antarctic
  Cecilia McDowall Seventy Degrees Below Zero
  (world premiere)
  Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antartica
  (with photos from the 1910 Antarctic Expedition)
  

• 29th February 2012, Village Underground
  CLoSer: Spirit of the Voice

  City of London Sinfonia
  Holst Singers
  Stephen Layton conductor
  
  Poulenc Suite Française
  JS Bach French Suite
  Poulenc Le Bal Masqué
  Knut Nystedt Immortal Bach
  Stravinsky Mass

• 26th February 2012, Roundhouse
  Reverb Festival: The Seashell and the Clergyman

  Imogen Heap
  Holst Singers*
  Ana Silvera
  The Estonian Television Girls Choir**
  *Hugh Brunt conductor
  **Aarne Saluveer conductor
  

  
  Imogen Heap The Seashell and The Clergyman
  songs by Imogen Heap and Ana Silvera
  

  Reviews of this performance:
  
  

   

   

  Heap's score was masterfully realised by the Holst Singers...
  

  Bachtrack, February 2012

   

  
  
• 4th February 2012, Cambridge Corn Exchange
  Conquering the Antarctic - Cambridge

  City of London Sinfonia
  Holst Singers
  Katherine Watson soprano
  Robert Murray tenor
  Stephen Layton conductor
  

  Vaughan Williams Excerpts from Scott of the Antarctic
  Cecilia McDowall Seventy Degrees Below Zero
  (world premiere)
  Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antartica
  (with photos from the 1910 Antarctic Expedition)

• 3rd February 2012, Symphony Hall, Birmingham
  Conquering the Antarctic - Birmingham

  City of London Sinfonia
  Holst Singers
  Katherine Watson soprano
  Robert Murray tenor
  Stephen Layton conductor
  

  Vaughan Williams Excerpts from Scott of the Antarctic
  Cecilia McDowall Seventy Degrees Below Zero
  (world premiere)
  Vaughan Williams Sinfonia Antartica
  (with photos from the 1910 Antarctic Expedition)

• 19th December 2011, St John's Smith Square
  Britten's St Nicholas
  Reviews of this performance:
  
  

   

   

  I've never heard a more precise or clean account.
  

  The Telegraph, December 2011

   

  
  
• 6th December 2011, Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons
  Carols at the Manoir

  Conductor: Bob Chilcott

  Programme tbc

• 30th October 2011, Queen Elizabeth Hall
  Nicholas Maw Concert

  Spoken introduction
  Nicholas Maw: Violin Concerto*
  Interval
  Nicholas Maw: Sophie's Choice Suite
  Nicholas Maw: One foot in Eden still, I stand for chorus
  Nicholas Maw: Hymnus

  City of London Sinfonia
  Royal Academy of Music
  Stephen Layton conductor*
  Christopher Austin conductor
  Tasmin Little violin
  Holst Singers
  

  Reviews of this performance:
  
  

   

   

  a compelling performance... a warm and carefully balanced choral sound
  

  Steven Berryman, November 2011