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Around me falls the night - programme outline
Palestrina - Exultate Deo
Weir - Vertue - i. Vertue
Campkin - The Crimson Sun
Purcell - Evening Hymn
Lassus - Toutes les nuits
Casulana - O notte, o ciel, o mar
Monteverdi - Sfogava con le stelle
Dowland - Come, heavy Sleep
Rooney - Round me falls the night
Rusby - Underneath the Stars
INTERVAL
Lang - evening, morning, day
Esmail - A Winter Breviary
Moore - Oft, in the Stilly Night
Monteverdi - Non si levav'ancor l'alba novella
Monteverdi - Ecco mormorar l'onde
Morley - When lo, by break of morning
MacMillan - O Radiant Dawn
Finzi - My Spirit Sang All Day
Horizon Voices - Biography
Horizon Voices is a professional vocal ensemble and registered charity seeking to broaden musical horizons through a programme of interactive performances, education workshops and community outreach projects. Founded through a shared passion for performance, education and outreach, the ensemble aims to deliver innovative music-making events and projects for diverse audiences including families, young people and the wider community. Curating projects around particular themes encourages audiences to explore, interact with and appreciate a wide range of classical and contemporary choral and vocal repertoire. The ensemble focuses on developing a musical culture which is accessible, engaging and innovative, exploring different approaches to presenting choral music in both conventional and new contexts.
Horizon Voices participated in the 2022-23 Brighton Early Music Festival Emerging Artists Scheme and are now in demand for ensemble recitals, oratorio performances, workshops and multi-disciplinary projects across the country. They have also performed as part of The Sixteen’s Sounds Sublime Festival and participated in masterclasses with La Fonte Musica.
In 2023 Horizon Voices were awarded funding from Arts Council England to develop and deliver a hybrid performance, education and wellbeing project for the 400th anniversary of composer William Byrd, entitled Byrd: Reasons to Sing. They have recently received funding from the Simon Gibson Charitable Trust to develop a new project, Elemental – a curated series of short interactive performances focusing on the elements and including commissioned arrangements of folk songs for community engagement.
Sheffield-born soprano Lindsey James gained her First-Class degree in Music at King’s College London, with singing tuition from the Royal Academy of Music. She is an alumna of the Genesis Sixteen and VOCES8 Scholar programmes, and performs with ensembles including Kantos Chamber Choir, London Choral Sinfonia and Philharmonia Voices.
Graduating from Durham University with First Class Honours, Natalie Houlston moved to London to pursue her career in singing, with work from Ora Singers, St Martin-in-the-Fields and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She now sings regularly with these groups, and has formed close-knit relationships with BBC Singers, Tenebrae and The Sixteen, alongside her work as a step-out soloist.
Sophie Timms is a British mezzo-soprano from Hertfordshire. An alumnus of The Sixteen’s Genesis Sixteen programme and VOCES8 scholarship, Sophie graduated with a MMus Master’s in Vocal Studies with Distinction from Trinity Laban Conservatoire and performs in professional choral, oratorio, recording and opera work across the UK and abroad. Sophie works with ensembles including The Sixteen, Gabrieli Consort, OAE Choir of the Enlightenment, Ora Singers and London Voices.
James Rhodes is a tenor, conductor and music education specialist based in Hertfordshire. He graduated from the University of Sheffield with a First-Class degree in Music and works as a Director of Music at an independent school, alongside a portfolio of freelance choral, oratorio and conducting work.
Hailing from Guildford, Alex Pratley is a freelance baritone based in London. He received his MMus in Vocal Performance from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with distinction in 2022. An experienced ensemble singer, Alex is further training as an opera singer, and he has recently performed the role of Zuniga (Carmen) for Arcadian Opera.
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