The Northern Spirit Singers will offer Lucca a concert of great music, with sparkling and original arrangements. The choir is directed by Andrew King .

On Wednesday 4 April at 9.15 pm the choir will perform in the Cathedral of San Martino in a free concert. It’s a project started in September 2000 with the collaboration of graduate singers in Durham and teachers from other regions of England and the musical direction of Andrew King. For the past eighteen years, Northern Spirit Singers have performed in the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Slovenia and Croatia. In Italy the choir in 2011 received many awards in the International Choral Competition – Venezia in Musica.

In London, the group participated in the international competition for a cappella choirs and in 2014 were nominated ‘Adult Choir of the Year’ by the BBC.

The singers will perform polyphonic arrangements of pieces by Monteverdi, Hogan and other items like ‘Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine’ (Whitacre).

The concert is organised by “OneStage Concert Tours”, English music tour operator active in the field for more than fifteen years and based in London, in collaboration with the Diocese of Lucca and the Cathedral of San Martino.

Concert programme:

 

Cantate Domino – Monteverdi

Vos Omnes – Gesualdo

Regina Caeli – Palestrina

Hail Gladdening Light – Wood

Lux Aeterna – Elgar arr. Cameron

Magnum Mysterium – Lauridsen

Unicornis Captivator – Gjeilo

Irish Blessing -arr. J. Moore

The Road Home – Paulus

I can Tell the World – Hogan

Michelangelo’s On Beauty – Knecht

Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine