News

Hot on the heels of an intensive rehearsal and training weekend in Cambridge, culminating in a performance at Ely Cathedral with over 200 musicians, Gabrieli is busy making plans for training programmes and performances with Gabrieli Roar during 2016/17. Our packed diary includes projects of all sizes across the country, with repertoire ranging from Haydn masses and theatrical Purcell projects to Mendelssohn’s towering Symphony No.2 Lobgesang.

Gabrieli has enjoyed a hectic but wonderful summer of international touring, recording and performing. A whistle stop tour through everything that we have done in just these few weeks offers a snapshot of the breadth, variety and ambition of our repertoire and projects.

This week saw the official launch of Gabrieli Roar at Southwark Cathedral. On 16 February our five partner choirs were joined by the professional singers of the Gabrieli Consort to form a chorus of nearly 150 voices. The performance was a joyous example of the ability of talented young musicians to rise to the highest levels of achievement when given the correct training and support, and most importantly, the opportunity to excel.

We are delighted to announce that our ambitious training scheme for teenage singers, Gabrieli Roar, has been awarded thee major funding grants. The first from the Leverhulme Trust, which will support the programme over a period of three years by providing the funding to enable us to offer means-tested bursaries to one fifth of our young singers. The second from Arts Council England, helping to fund the costs of the 2016 summer programme which culminates in a high profile performance at Ely Cathedral, and the third from The Wingate Trust for our ongoing training and mentoring programme.

Released in May 2015, our latest recording of Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato has already attracted substantial critical success, but we were particularly pleased to receive the news that it has been nominated for the 58th Annual GRAMMY Awards.

We are delighted to announce that Gabrieli have once again been chosen to participate in The Big Give’s Christmas Challenge. We have celebrated successful Challenges each Christmas from 2010 until 2013 raising a total of over £49,500 – can you help us smash the £50,000 mark this year?! In 2015, the Christmas Challenge runs on […]

After a busy summer of Purcell, Gabrieli launch the 2015/16 season in style with two performances at the Utrecht Early Music Festival – Of a Rose is all my Song, our newest a cappella Consort programme featuring substantial 16th century motets by Tallis and Mundy alongside contemporary British repertoire, and our much-loved Three Odes for […]

Following a successful recruitment process during the early summer of 2015, from which we received a number of very high quality applications, we are delighted to announce Gabrieli Roar’s new partner choirs for the coming season: Bradford Catholic Youth Choir – director Thomas Leech Cantate – director Nicholas Shaw Hertfordshire County Youth Choir – director Victoria Longdon We are […]

We are delighted to announce that Gabrieli has been selected by the National Funding Scheme as one of four organisations who will be Cultural Ambassadors in 2015. As part of the scheme we will be working closely with the NFS on several fundraising campaigns across the coming season, using their brand new technology to increase awareness of […]