Directed by Michael Waldron

Directed by Andrew-John Smith

Platinum Consort
Platinum Choristers
Scott Inglis-Kidger conductor
Benjamin Newlove organ

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🫧 Acoustic Ruminations

🫧 Wed 22 Nov, 13:00

🫧 Great Hall, Queen’s House, Greenwich. Free entry

Please come and meditate with The Ruffians in our first full concert this year. There will be music by Sorana Santos, Pauline Oliveros, Hildegard von Bingen, Sofia Gubaidalina, Anna Meredith, Jonathan Dove and Cassandra Miller, as well as lots of improvisation and sound baths for you to dip your toes into!

The Ruffians will be taking part in the final concert of the New Lights Festival at Trinity Laban.

Miranda will be performing ‘The Cat I’ and ‘The Cat II’, two new pieces written by Lantian Gu (who will play the piano). They are settings of Baudelaire poems, in translation by Geoffrey Wagner.

Miranda and Amy Kearsley will be performing in Hester Dart’s final recital at Trinity Laban. The concert is entitled Filth.

Music will include Schoenberg, Larsen, Bauld and Aperghis.

Miranda will be presenting a programme of Hildegard, Lully, Purcell, Handel and Rameau together with keyboardist Roxanna Shini Mehrabzadeh.

Miranda was a member of the chorus in the premiere of Georgia Barnes’ new opera, Scarlet. Libretto by Olivia Bell.

Adjudicators: Peter Sheppard Skærved & Ian Mitchell

The Ruffians (Miranda Ostler, Amy Kearsley, and Hester Dart) were given an Honourable Mention.

A concert exploring unaccompanied vocal music curated by Emily Beech. The Ruffians will be performing works by Aperghis and Larsen.

Miranda will play ‘Female Chorus’ in a scene from Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, directed by Gidon Saks.

Miranda’s cast’s performance is Wednesday 26th April at 7pm. Tickets are free but need to be booked here.

The London Choral Sinfonia make their first appearance at the SJSS annual Easter Festival with an evening of contemplation for Good Friday.

Commissioned by the BBC in 1991 for a Radio 4 Good Friday premiere, Francis Grier's Sword in the Soul is a modern take on the Passiontide story, with narrated texts, written by former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. The work gives a more human telling of this well-known story, alongside seven rich pieces of expressive music.

The Ruffians (Juliet Wallace, Miranda Ostler, Amy Kearsley and Hester Dart) will be performing at the Big Scratch open mic night on Tuesday 4th April at The Famous Cock, Highbury and Islington. Rep will include Geroges Aperghis and Libby Larsen.

Platinum Consort (one to a part) and Platinum 415
Directed by Scott Inglis-Kidger

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Programme:

Hildegard O Virtus Sapientiae
A. Lobo Versa est in luctum
Guerrero Hei mihi, Domine
Lassus De profundis
Monteverdi Adoramus te, Christe
Monteverdi Christe, Adoramus te
Monteverdi Cantate Domino 
Victoria Requiem 1605 Officium Defunctorum

Rubythroat (directed by Linda Hirst) perform music by Janequin and Messiaen, and members from the ensemble will also perform music by Lili Boulanger and Robert Owens.

Programme:

Robert Owens Rimbaud Cabaret
Lili Boulanger Renouveau

Clement Janequin Le Chant des Oiseaux
Olivier Messiaen Cinq Réchants

Miranda will sing ‘Rêve pour l’hiver’, the fourth movement from Owens’ Rimbaud Cabaret Op. 101.

Admission free

Miranda will sing Cherubino’s first aria, Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio.

A recital of songs by members of the Andy Armistead class, presented by Professor Christopher Underwood.

Free admission, no booking needed

Miranda will sing Titania’s Song by Alison Bauld.