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As November draws to a close, the Black Friday shopping rush begins – but this year, your purchases can do more than just tick off the items on your Christmas list. Between the 28th and 1st December, Presto Music are generously donating a share of all online sales to Gabrieli! Every purchase you make will […]

Smith Square Hall, London | 14 March 2026, 4.30pm George Frideric Handel Acis & Galatea HWV 49 Gabrieli Consort & Players Paul McCreesh (Conductor) Carolyn Sampson (Galatea) Laurence Kilsby (Acis) Will Thomas (Polyphemus) Archie Inns (Coridon) Jonathan Hanley (Damon)   G.F. Handel Ode for St Cecilia’s Day HWV 49 Gabrieli Consort & Players Paul McCreesh (Conductor) Carolyn Sampson (Soprano) Laurence […]

Join us on 14 October 2025 for another Gabrieli Roar performance of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, on this occasion at St George’s Cathedral, Southwark with over 150 young people from across the London Borough of Southwark. First performed in collaboration with the Essex and Leicestershire Music Hubs, this project sees Purcell’s famous hour-long opera expanded […]

We kickstarted the Gabrieli Roar academic year with a series of Roar Explore Days in Devon and Derbyshire led by Creative Directors Charles Bequignon-MacDougall and Emily Dickens. Working in partnership with Devon Music Education Hub, we were delighted to work with regular partners at The Legacy Choir, Plymouth as well as reaching new schools in […]

“I think I speak for more people than just myself when I say you can’t put a price on the feeling of Gabrieli.” Reading through the feedback from our residential course this summer, we’re struck by how Gabrieli’s values are reflected in how our partners and participants feel about a Gabrieli Roar course … it’s […]

On Thursday 6 November, Gabrieli bring one of their most celebrated programmes to London, when we perform Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at St Martin in the Fields on Trafalgar Square. Our celebrated cast of soloists include Anna Dennis, Rowan Pierce, Jeremy Budd, Matthew Brook and Marcus Farnsworth. Purcell’s semi-opera is a series of masques, originally conceived to […]

Today we’ve said a sad farewell to Sophie Jones who has run our communications campaigns and concert box offices for the last year. Joining us in the lead up to our epic Christmas 2024 Gabrieli Roar tour to eleven cities across the country, Sophie rapidly became an integral member of the team and is much […]

From tenors rehearsing hunting choruses running through the woods to the mandatory Mediocre Joke Moment at the end of every alto sectional, the annual Gabrieli Roar Residential Course welcomes, entertains, challenges, excites… and exhausts (and that’s just the staff!). Our six day residential prepared over 200 participants to perform Haydn’s The Seasons at Ely Cathedral […]

We are delighted to be packing our suitcases and searching out our passports this weekend, as we return to work with our friends at the Herrenchiemsee Festspiele, in southern Bavaria, Germany. Set in the idyllic, almost other-worldly surroundings of a castle built on an island, we’re delighted this year to be bringing a programme of […]

Much of June has been spent in Leicester, preparing over 350 young people for a super-sized Roar Evolve performance of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas: a unique production bringing together massed choruses of primary and secondary school students to perform the opera’s powerful choruses, interspersed with folk songs and sea shanties that are thematically linked to […]