DATE
Monday 1st August 2022

TIME
7:15PM – 8:20PM [doors open 6:45pm] 

LOCATION
St Michael le Belfrey Church, York, YO1 7EN

PRICE
£15 *16s & under free] either in advance or on the door.

ArchiCantiores perform words and music that Grinling Gibbons may have heard, at a City of York church, St Michael Le Belfrey, where he may have worshipped.

Musical settings across 350 years include catches and broadsheets, trios and quartets by Thomas Campion, Henry Purcell, George Frederick Handel, John Hilton, Matthew Locke, Vaughan Richardson, John Stainer, and others.
Readings and poems inspired by carvings include ‘A Linden Antiphon’ and other commissioned poems by Paul Munden and Oliver Comins, alongside the words of Alexander Pope, William Shakespeare, James Shirley, John Donne, and John Evelyn.

Presented by ArchiCantiores’ wordsmiths and musicians:

Biographies:
• soprano Rebecca Ryland-Jones is a singer with The Epiphoni Consort and Thomas Tallis Society
• counter-tenor Thomas Bridges, sings with Colla Voce and the Thomas Tallis Society in London
• tenor Christopher O’Gorman, is a York Minster Songman and a member of the Conductus trio
• baritone Jonathan Louth, Founder of ArchiCantiores, is an architect and cathedral choirman
• bass Michael Sessions is a singer with Bulmer Choir living in Yorkshire,
• poet Paul Munden, an adjunct professor at University of Canberra, is a published poet living in Yorkshire
• poet Oliver Comins is a published poet living and writing in London

ArchiCantiores is a troupe of singers, musicians and wordsmiths who perform words and music live to explore and support architectural heritage.  ArchiCantiores is led by Jonathan Louth, Advisor to the Modern Legacy Project of the Grinling Gibbons Tercentenary.

pre-reservation can be requested by email via archicantiores@hotmail.co.uk by clicking below