A choral concert where voices and harp combine to sing Benjamin Britten's iconic 'Ceremony of Carols', alongside music celebrating women's voices.

Corvus Consort’s upper voices join with harpist Louise Thomson to present a festive concert, featuring music celebrating women’s voices from their acclaimed album ‘Welcome Joy’, alongside Benjamin Britten’s iconic ‘Ceremony of Carols’.

“Corvus Consort, Louise Thomson and Freddie Crowley are dazzling.”

• BBC Music Magazine

Beautiful music from ‘Welcome Joy’ fills the first half of the concert. A celebration of women’s voices both as singers and composers, BBC Music Magazine called the album “a jewel-box of glinting, shimmering choral gems”, also giving it five stars and naming it one of their ’13 best classical albums of 2024’.

A festive second half revolves around Britten’s great Ceremony of Carols, one of the best-loved works in the English Christmas repertory. This will be preceded by a selection of short seasonal works by Elizabeth Poston, Howard Skempton, Peter Maxwell Davies and current Master of the King’s Music Errollyn Wallen.

“clean, clear voices, impeccable intonation and a direct, engaged way with the texts”

• Limelight Magazine

“The 12 superb sopranos and altos of the Corvus Consort sing the complex, close-knit textures of these works with delicacy and pinpoint accuracy. Louise Thomson’s immaculate, virtuosic harp playing conjures scenes that take us from scented gardens to sun-baked landscapes and haunted moonlit forests.”

• BBC Music Magazine

Corvus Consort

Louise Thomson (harp)

Freddie Crowley (director)

Founded and directed by Freddie Crowley, Corvus Consort is a UK-based vocal ensemble comprising some of the country’s finest young professional singers. Described as “dazzling” and “always full of fresh thinking” by BBC Music Magazine, Corvus’s combination of musical excellence, passionate performance and imaginative presentation makes them hugely popular with audiences nationwide.

“an innovative and top-drawer ensemble”