Afternoon Choral Recital
3.15pm, Tuesday 13 May 2025
Southwark Cathedral, SE1 9DA
Free entry - reserve your place online
Performers
The LFCCM Festival Singers
Alastair Carey Direction
Programme
- O For A Closer Walk With GodCassie White
- Ubi caritasDominic McGonigal
- Tantum ergoRichard Barnard
- Ave Verum CorpusJoseph Schubert
- Salve Regina (2019)Phillip Cooke
- When David HeardGregory Rose
- Hoc est corpusSara Ramos Contioso
- Ave Verum CorpusC F Thompson
- O salutaris hostiaPaolo Furlan
- Fear not, for I am with youRichard Nye
- Call to RemembranceTomas Bezkorowajnyj
- Exsultate DeoŁukasz Urbaniak
Call for Scores submissionWorld premiereUK premiereLondon premiere
The LFCCM Festival Singers, the Festival’s own professional vocal ensemble drawn from London’s top-flight church and cathedral singers, performs themed selections by both British and international composers from the LFCCM’s open submission project for new sacred music, “Call for Scores”, including new works by young composers.
The LFCCM Festival Singers
The Festival’s own professional vocal ensemble, The LFCCM Festival Singers, expands and augments the Choir of St Pancras Parish Church with additional singers from London’s world-class choral institutions. Most members of the ensemble have come from a collegiate background and gone on to study as postgraduate students at one of the London conservatoires. This combination of superb sight-reading and world-class vocal training gives the group tremendous flexibility, enabling the performance of a repertory that spans five centuries: ranging from motets from the Eton Choirbook to new commissions by composers such as Roxanna Panufnik, Michael Berkeley, Cecilia McDowall, Howard Skempton, Michael Finnissy, Gabriel Jackson, Francis Pott, Sebastian Forbes, Francis Grier, Kerry Andrew, Antony Pitts, and many more.
Alastair Carey
Alastair Carey has been involved in choral performance since the age of six. He has performed, recorded and broadcast throughout the United Kingdom and Europe, appearing as a vocal performer with ensembles including The Gabrieli Consort, The Oxford Camerata, The Brabant Ensemble, and The Nederlandse Bachvereniging in performances ranging from the BBC Proms to the Leipzig Bach Festival. As a conductor, Alastair has directed concerts in Asia, Australasia, Europe, and throughout the United Kingdom, including award-winning performances at competitions in the European Grand Prix in Spain and the World Choir Games in South Korea.
