1.15pm, Friday 16 May 2025
Holy Sepulchre, EC1A 2DQ

Free entry - reserve your place online

Performers

The LFCCM Festival Singers
Alastair Carey Direction

Programme

• Nunc Dimittis on Plainsong TonesDavid Truslove
• Christe, qui luxGregor Tümmler
• In the Bleak MidwinterEdward Tait
• The LambDavid McGregor
• Ave MariaJohn Smith
• Ave Verum CorpusDavide Mutti
• Locus IsteBrian Inglis
• The Lord’s PrayerDerry Bertenshaw
• Ave Verum CorpusAdam Kujawa
• My Eyes For Beauty PineNigel Poole
• O nata luxJoshua Gawley
• O God, the King of gloryAlexander Voltz

Call for Scores submissionWorld 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 appear at Holy Sepulchre courtesy of the Music-at-Hill Concert Society

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.