CHORAL WORKSHOPS
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Welcome to Platinum. Established by Scott Inglis-Kidger and Claire Jaggers as a professional vocal ensemble at the University of Cambridge in 2005, Platinum Consort is now a thriving vocal workshops and coaching business. Inspiring good amateur singers in small groups since 2011, we offer bespoke choral workshops and individual coaching sessions which are highly sought-after. With our exciting repertoire, expert vocal coaching and positive approach, we will enable you to love your voice and experience choral singing like you never have before. |
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FLAGSHIP WORKSHOPS
Dodecahedral Polyphony: Guerrero, Victoria, Tomkins & Gabrieli
Saturday 30th March 2019
In this workshop we explore music in 12 parts set in various tri-choir combinations. We begin with Spanish Renaissance composer, Francisco Guerrero, whose Duo Seraphim is a fine example of the glorious spatial effects created by antiphonal composition. Following this, we have another Spanish master, Tomás Luis de Victoria, and his more exuberant setting of the psalm Laetatus Sum, this time with four Cantus parts. In contrast, we immerse ourselves in late Tudor England with a very different approach to 12-part writing with Thomas Tomkins’ O Praise the Lord. Tomkins adopts a convoluted and highly polyphonic single-choir texture, abound with false relations typical of the time. Finally, we turn to the home of ‘cori spezzati’ – St Mark’s Venice – for Giovanni Gabrieli’s Gloria from the Sacrae Symphoniae of 1597.
Franciso Guerrero (1528-1599)
Duo Seraphim a12
Tomás Luis de Victoria (c1548-1611)
Laetatus Sum a12
Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)
O Praise the Lord a12
Giovanni Gabrieli (c1554-1612)
Gloria a12
Scott Inglis-Kidger Director
Saturday 30th March 2019, 10:30-17:00
St Mary's Church, Battersea Church Road
London SW11 3NA
Cost includes music and break time refreshments
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SOPRANO SOLD OUT: Please join the waiting list here
ALTO SOLD OUT: Please join the waiting list here
Magnificat: Pärt, Lassus & Lambe
Saturday 11th May 2019
Arvo Pärt’s wife Nora said of his music, “The concept of tintinnabuli was born from a deeply rooted desire for an extremely reduced sound world which could not be measured, as it were, in kilometres, or even metres, but only in millimetres....” Pärt is one of the leading composers of the ‘Holy Minimalism’ technique, in which he combines the Tintinnabuli style with the use of drones and luminous, melodic lines. Here we juxtapose Pärt’s Magnificat with two Renaissance settings: the first by Walter Lambe from the Eton Choirbook at the turn of the 16th century; and the second, labyrinthine setting in 10 parts by the outstanding Franco Flemish composer Orlande de Lassus.
Arvo Pärt (b1935)
Magnificat
Orlande de Lassus (c1530-1594)
Magnificat super 'Aurora lucis rutilat' a10
Walter Lambe (c1450-1504)
Magnificat Octavi Toni a5
Scott Inglis-Kidger Director
Ghislaine Morgan Associate Director
Saturday 11th May 2019, 10:30-17:00
St Mary's Church, Battersea Church Road
London SW11 3NA
Cost includes break time refreshments. Participants will be provided with a copy of the Lassus and Lambe, but are kindly asked to purchase their own copy of the Pärt.
Please note that we will in due course assign the Soprano and Tenor parts (of which there are three of each) for the Lassus.
By purchasing this workshop you consent to receive information about our future events, by email, and agree to our Terms and Conditions: please see below. In accordance with our Privacy Policy, we will not share your information with any third party.
SOPRANO SOLD OUT: Please join the waiting list here
ALTO 1 SOLD OUT: Altos please book remaining A2 places.
TENOR 1 SOLD OUT: Tenors please book remaining T2 places.
O Fiery Spirit: McDowall, Hildegard, Panufnik & Ostler
Saturday 13th July 2019
In this workshop we will celebrate a small selection of choral music written by female composers. Setting the scene is the monodic work O Ignee Spiritus (O Fiery Spirit) by medieval composer and visionary Hildegard von Bingen. Fast-forward approximately 800 years and we have works by established composers Roxanna Panufnik and Cecilia McDowall sitting alongside one by Platinum’s very own Miranda Ostler. Of her setting of W.B. Yeats’ poem Cloths of Heaven, Ostler says "My only self-stipulation was that I wanted a sense of tonal dissonance to be present throughout". Speaking about her ethereal Kyrie after Byrd, Panufnik says "I loved the way that the melody of the first Kyrie eleison almost immediately transposes and capitalised on this harmonically by taking my version through several quite chromatic changes and adding an extra bass voice, thereby extra harmonic potential." McDowall’s triumphant Regina Caeli takes its lead from the plainchant of the same text, with Alleluias abounding between each verse.
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
O Ignee Spiritus
Cecilia McDowall (b1951)
Regina Caeli
Roxanna Panufnik (b1968)
Kyrie after Byrd
Miranda Ostler (b1993)
Cloths of Heaven
Scott Inglis-Kidger Director
Ghislaine Morgan Associate Director
Saturday 13th July 2019, 10:30-17:00
St Mary's Church, Battersea Church Road
London SW11 3NA
Cost includes break time refreshments. Participants will be provided with a copy of the Ostler and Hildegard von Bingen, but are kindly asked to purchase copies of the McDowall and Panufnik.
By purchasing this workshop you consent to receive information about our future events, by email, and agree to our Terms and Conditions: please see below. In accordance with our Privacy Policy, we will not share your information with any third party.
TENOR 2 SOLD OUT: Tenors please book remaining T1 places.
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