The opening concert in this year’s 2012-2013 Great Music in a Great Space concerts will feature a performance by TENEBRAE, an English
chamber choir based in London and directed by Nigel Short on Friday, November 2 at 7:30 PM in Saint Peter in Chains Cathedral, 8th and
Plums Streets, downtown Cincinnati.
The concert program will feature choral works by Russian composers Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pavel Chesnokov, Poytr Illyich Tchaikovsky and
Nilolay Kedrov, Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and newly composed works by the young Welsh composer Paul Mealor including his setting of Ubi
Caritas composed for the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in Westminster Abbey.
Often performing by candlelight, the choir creates an atmosphere of spiritual and musical reflection, where medieval chant and renaissance
works are interspersed with contemporary works. The carefully selected team of singers uses the acoustic and atmosphere of the building to
enable the audience to experience the power and intimacy of the human voice at its best.
Singers are drawn from outstanding musical backgrounds – King’s College Cambridge, Westminster Abbey and Cathedral, St Paul’s
Cathedral, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden and English National Opera – to create a unique vocal mix with an extraordinary range of
vocal power and colour. It was born out of Nigel Short’s desire to bring together what he loved best in his own singing career - namely
the passionate sounds of large Cathedral choirs and the precision of ensembles like The King's Singers – to create a new kind of choral
group.
TICKETS: $38 in advance and $40 at the door; Students $15 with student ID. Advance tickets are available through the cathedral box office at
325 W. 8th Street, downtown Cincinnati or by calling the cathedral concert line at 421-2222 or on-line at
http://www.
For further information, contact Anthony DiCello, Cathedral Music Director at 421-2222.
