UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS
Handel: Messiah
Handel’s Messiah with Konzertchor Darmstadt, Dir. Wolfgang Seeliger.
Soprano: Ana Beard Fernández
Alto: Rosamond Thomas
Tenor: Ted Black
Bass: Filippo Turkheimer
Terry Riley: Sun Rings with Sacconi Quartet
Earth Unwrapped Opening Concert
Sixty years on since his seminal work, In C, Terry Riley has earned a firm place in the collective of legendary composers of our time. As well as launching Kings Place’s year-long Earth Unwrapped, this performance also kicks off our celebrations of Riley’s birthday across 2025, with a rare opportunity to hear his masterful Sun Ringsperformed live.
A ten-part suite, utilising audio recordings of NASA’s Voyager I & II (on mission since 1977), Sun Rings is an evocative journey from Earth to the cosmos and back again with the final movement, ‘One Earth, One People, One Love’.
With his creative thoughts from an inspirational trip to Cape Kennedy in Summer 2001 soon interrupted by 9/11, Riley wanted his work ‘to have one message about how we human beings have to grow before we take our culture out into space.’ Through this prism, Sun Rings transcends mere musical exploration questioning humanity’s place in the universe as we venture beyond our world, and offering a profound message about growth and unity.
This event will last approximately 70 minutes, without an interval.
Part 1: Vom Weinen zum Singen
Liturina x Ana Beard Fernández
Liturina combines forces with soprano Ana Beard Fernández to take you on a journey from terror, darkness and pain to the enduring love of God through song and music. Vom Weinen zum Singen features two exquisite chamber cantatas and an enigmatic trio sonata by Georg Philipp Telemann, followed by three fascinating works by the 17th century Danish composer Dieterich Buxtehude. Part one of this series introduces themes which will be explored further in our second concert, and traces a short history of the sacred cantata. Experience this magnificent music in the stunning surroundings of St Clement Danes, where Liturina is proud to be Ensemble-in-residence.
Part 2: Vom Weinen zum Singen
Liturina: Easter Oratorio & Cantata BWV 103
ANA BEARD FERNÁNDEZ (SOPRANO)
HUGH CUTTING (ALTO)
JAMES WAY (TENOR)
TRISTAN HAMBLETON (BASS)
JOEL SANDELSON (CONDUCTOR)
Join Liturina for part two of Vom Weinen zum Singen, a series exploring themes of discord and terror overcome by love and harmony! This concert marks the glorious culmination of the series, a spectacular collaboration with outstanding conductor Joel Sandelson, and internationally-acclaimed soloists, to perform Bach’s Easter Oratorio and his Cantata BWV 103. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear some of Bach’s most dynamic and exciting works in the stunning setting of St Clement Danes, Liturina’s artistic residence in London.
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Cambridge University Symphony Chorus
East Anglia Chamber Orchestra
David Young conductor
Ashley Riches baritone
Ana Beard Fernández soprano
Haydn: The Creation
English Haydn Festival present Haydn: The Creation
Conducted by Steven Devine
Soprano soloist: Ana Beard Fernandez
SOLD OUT: Navidad Nuestra
Idrîsî Ensemble, Monteverde Consort & Special guest soloists:
Ana Beard Fernández soprano
Marta Fontanals-Simmons mezzo soprano
Jesús León tenor
Join us this December 13th for what promises to be a Christmas concert like no other. Ancient chants and toe-tapping rhythms collide in this unique event journeying through a millennium of early Latin and Hispanic sacred Christmas music treasures. Joined by a stellar line-up of pre-eminent Hispanic soloists, the groundbreaking Medieval specialist Idrîsî Ensemble join forces with the Monteverde Consort to celebrate vibrant, festive songs from Spain and Latin America, interlacing Amerindian and Afro styles with the entrancing, mystical sounds of the Roman world. Inspired by our historic c.1163 venue, the Temple Church, the group will also revive music from the site’s earliest days, including a 12th-century chant associated with the Knights Templar who established this place as their spiritual home.
Instituto Cervantes, supported by Iberian & Latin American Music Society and the Spanish Embassy.
SOLD OUT: Handel: Messiah @ Sinfonia Smith Square
Southbank Sinfonia
Parliament Choir
ANA BEARD FERNÁNDEZ
Soprano
VICTORIA SIMMONDS
Mezzo-Soprano
ED LYON
Tenor
GARETH BRYNMOR JOHN
Baritone
Concert 3: Patricia Kopatchinskaja
“Linie 2” with SWR Symphony Orchestra artistic partner, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
Kopatchinskaja has designed a Peace Project that eliminates the traditional boundaries between stage and audience, transforming the concert into an immersive sonic reality.
Haydn: Nelson Mass & Little Organ Mass, Faure: Requiem
‘Remembrance in Troubled Times’
Ashtead Choral Society, with Kent Sinfonia.
Directed by Dr Andrew Storey
Concert 2: Patricia Kopatchinskaja
“Linie 2” with SWR Symphony Orchestra artistic partner, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
Kopatchinskaja has designed a Peace Project that eliminates the traditional boundaries between stage and audience, transforming the concert into an immersive sonic reality.
Concert 1: Patricia Kopatchinskaja
“Linie 2” with SWR Symphony Orchestra artistic partner, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
Kopatchinskaja has designed a Peace Project that eliminates the traditional boundaries between stage and audience, transforming the concert into an immersive sonic reality.
Mendelssohn: Elijah
Crouch End Festival Chorus
Soprano Soloist: Ana Beard Fernandez
Alto Soloist: Marta Fontanals-Simmons
Tenor Soloist: Nicholas Mulroy
Bass Soloist: James Platt
London Orchestra da Camera
David Temple - Conductor
Primrose Hill Opera Cabaret
Sopranos: Ana Beard Fernandez / Caroline Kennedy
Mezzo-soprano: Emma Lewis
Tenor: Guy Elliott
Bass: Martin Nelson
Piano: Matthew Jorysz
Song Recital @ St Clement Danes
Debussy: Nuit D’Étoiles, Clair de Lune, Apparition.
Strauss: Four Last Songs & Malven
Ana Beard Fernandez & Matthew Jorysz
Free entry, donations gratefully accepted
Haydn: The Creation
Sine Nomine Singers present:
Haydn: The Creation for their 30th Anniversary Concert
Soprano soloist: Ana Beard Fernandez
Tenor Soloist: Phillipe Durrant
Bass soloist: Christopher Webb
Charpentier: Actéon & Rameau: Pygmalion
Academy of Ancient Music (SOLD OUT)
Anna Dennis soprano
Rachel Redmond soprano
Katie Bray mezzo-soprano
Thomas Walker tenor
Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Solo voice quartet Ana Beard Fernandez, Ciara Hendrick, Rory Carver, Jon Stainsby
Charpentier: Actéon & Rameau: Pygmalion
Academy of Ancient Music
Anna Dennis soprano
Rachel Redmond soprano
Katie Bray mezzo-soprano
Thomas Walker tenor
Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Solo voice quartet Ana Beard Fernandez, Ciara Hendrick, Rory Carver, Jon Stainsby
Ana y La Locura: Je Suis La Folie
Ana y La Locura will bring their new programme 'Je suis la folie' to the Festival de La Gente, a baroque festival near Limoges, in the summer.
Ana y La Locura is a newly-formed ensemble, specialising in unusual baroque song and dance music. Soprano Ana Beard Fernández has performed as a soloist with several distinguished baroque ensembles, including Rachel Podger's Brecon Baroque, I Fagiolini, Florilegium, Barokksolistene, La Nuova Musica, Le Concert D’Astrée and the Hanover Band, at prestigious venues including Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Salisbury Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral and St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
Members of La Locura include cellist and recorder player Iain MacLeod Hall and Tom Allery.
Ana y La Locura
Soprano Ana Beard Ferández ‘La Locura’ programme of unusual song and dance music to St. Clement Danes.
Voice & Percussion: Ana Beard Fernández
Cello & Recorder: Iain MacLeod Hall
Theorbo & Chitarra: Kristiina Watt
Chamber Organ: Dominika Maszczynska
https://www.continuoconnect.com/artists/ana-y-la-locura
Blow: Venus & Adonis
Venus: Ana Beard Fernández
Adonis: Jack Holton
Cupid: Emilia Bertolini
With Istante Collective (orchestra) and Queenes Chapell (chorus).
Will Todd: Mass in Blue
Mass in Blue is a brilliant blend of driving jazz grooves and clear, strong, choral writing against which the solo piano and solo soprano voice weave and blend in a delightful aural tapestry. This central work is complemented by beautiful musical settings of religious texts, infused with a highly individual and melodic style, bringing the composer’s lifelong love of traditional choral music into the 21st century with spiritual sensitivity and a contemporary edge.
Solo soprano: Ana Beard Fernández
Solo piano: Oli Lallement
A short recital of songs by Cole Porter will be given before the concert by Ana, Oli, and the jazz trio.
Dido & Aeneas: En Evening of Purcell
St Paul's Knightsbridge Festival Choir & Orchestra
Dido & Aeneas / Purcell
Dido: Ana Beard Fernández
Rejoice in the Lord alway / Purcell
Lord, how long wilt thou be angry / Purcell
Hear my prayer, Oh Lord / Purcell
Remember not, Lord, our offences / Purcell
I was glad when they said unto me / Purcell
Haydn Concert Arias
English Haydn Orchestra, conducted by Steven Devine
A selection of Haydn arias from Orlando Paladino and Armida
PERFORMERS:
Ana Beard Fernández - soprano
Miranda Westcott - mezzo soprano
Andrew Slater - bass baritone
Timothy Langston - counter tenor
D-Day Concert
Marking the 80th anniversary of D-day, St Clement Danes, the central church of the Royal Air Force, presents a concert of music for choir, soloists and string ensemble, in association with the RAF Air Cadet choir.
Ana y La Locura @ HandelHendrix
A recital of canzonettas and arias with theorbo player Johan Löfvig and cellist Iain Hall.
Lampe: The Dragon of Wantley
New Sussex Opera | Lampe: The Dragon of Wantley
A rapacious dragon has been terrorising a Yorkshire village. Gubbins and his daughter Margery, together with Mauxalinda, decide to seek the help of Moore of Moore Hall. Moore needs persuading away from his beer but succumbs to Margery’s pleading, and her promises of love. Unfortunately, he had already promised to marry Mauxalinda, and so the love triangle has to be resolved in dramatic fashion before Moore heads out and defeats the dragon, restoring harmony and prosperity to the village.
Margery: Ana Beard Fernández
Conductor: Toby Purser
Director: Paul Higgins
Bellot Baroque Ensemble
Performances:
LEWES All Saints Centre
Sunday April 14 5pm
HOVE The Old Market
Sunday April 21 4pm
TUNBRIDGE WELLS Trinity Theatre
Friday April 26 7.30pm
WINCHESTER Theatre Royal
Sunday April 28 4pm
LONDON Blackheath Halls
Sunday May 5 4pm
EASTBOURNE Devonshire Park Theatre
Sunday May 12 4pm
Monteverdi: Vespers
PERFORMERS:
ANA BEARD FERNANDEZ
HOLLY TEAGUE
CHRISTOPHER LEMMINGS
BEN THAPA
CONDUCTOR: STEPHEN ANTHONY BROWN | SUSSEX CHORUS
Mozart: Requiem
Performers
Royal Choral Society
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Richard Cooke conductor
James Burke clarinet
Ana Beard Fernández soprano
Rebecca Afonwy-Jones mezzo-soprano
Robin Bailey tenor
William Gaunt bass
I Fagiolini: Angels & Demons
I Fagiolini & Brecon Baroque
Angels, confused shepherds - the devil “shooting up in the air like a rocket!” - I Fagiolini brings an animated cast of Christmas characters to life in foot-tapping music from Italy, Germany, England and Spain.
Cristoforo Caresana - La Tarantella (1673)
A Neapolitan cantata (practically a pantomime) with the Devil symbolizing the Spanish occupation. Virtuosic angels sing to confused shepherds with echo jokes worthy of Monteverdi's 'Audi coelum'. A hypnotic Tarantella dance wards off the devil who appears with slightly butch demons before his dramatic departure. Truly a musical and comic gem that needed to be uncovered (and performed more often than Messiah...)
Iribarren - Xacara de Navidad (c.1750)
A ‘Xácara’ is “a gathering of ruffians and rogues, picaresque women - but more noisy and high-spirited than criminal”. Justice is done to that description with castanets, percussion and guitars while ‘Bato's little song’ brings “the Devil down in flames!” Foot-tapping joie-de-vivre from start to finish.
J.S.Bach - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (1713)
One of Bach's earliest but most popular cantatas, highlighting Luther's great Advent melody. Rocking solo for tenor, intimate aria for soprano while the strings' pizzicato symbolically paints Advent itself knocking on the door of Christ's arrival.
Claudio Monteverdi - Beatus vir (1640)
Surely one of his best-loved pieces with catchy violin interludes over repeating bassline, sensual triple time middle section and resounding Amen. I Fagiolini's performance is spritely, following recent research on time relationships.
William Byrd - Lullaby (1588)
As a serene interlude, Byrd's intricate consort song, sung by the Virgin Mother.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fpeWbIebz4
I Fagiolini: Angels & Demons
I Fagiolini & Brecon Baroque
Angels, confused shepherds - the devil “shooting up in the air like a rocket!” - I Fagiolini brings an animated cast of Christmas characters to life in foot-tapping music from Italy, Germany, England and Spain.
Cristoforo Caresana - La Tarantella (1673)
A Neapolitan cantata (practically a pantomime) with the Devil symbolizing the Spanish occupation. Virtuosic angels sing to confused shepherds with echo jokes worthy of Monteverdi's 'Audi coelum'. A hypnotic Tarantella dance wards off the devil who appears with slightly butch demons before his dramatic departure. Truly a musical and comic gem that needed to be uncovered (and performed more often than Messiah...)
Iribarren - Xacara de Navidad (c.1750)
A ‘Xácara’ is “a gathering of ruffians and rogues, picaresque women - but more noisy and high-spirited than criminal”. Justice is done to that description with castanets, percussion and guitars while ‘Bato's little song’ brings “the Devil down in flames!” Foot-tapping joie-de-vivre from start to finish.
J.S.Bach - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (1713)
One of Bach's earliest but most popular cantatas, highlighting Luther's great Advent melody. Rocking solo for tenor, intimate aria for soprano while the strings' pizzicato symbolically paints Advent itself knocking on the door of Christ's arrival.
Claudio Monteverdi - Beatus vir (1640)
Surely one of his best-loved pieces with catchy violin interludes over repeating bassline, sensual triple time middle section and resounding Amen. I Fagiolini's performance is spritely, following recent research on time relationships.
William Byrd - Lullaby (1588)
As a serene interlude, Byrd's intricate consort song, sung by the Virgin Mother.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fpeWbIebz4
Angels & Demons
Angels, confused shepherds - the devil “shooting up in the air like a rocket!” - I Fagiolini brings an animated cast of Christmas characters to life in foot-tapping music from Italy, Germany, England and Spain.
Cristoforo Caresana - La Tarantella (1673)
A Neapolitan cantata (practically a pantomime) with the Devil symbolizing the Spanish occupation. Virtuosic angels sing to confused shepherds with echo jokes worthy of Monteverdi's 'Audi coelum'. A hypnotic Tarantella dance wards off the devil who appears with slightly butch demons before his dramatic departure. Truly a musical and comic gem that needed to be uncovered (and performed more often than Messiah...)
Iribarren - Xacara de Navidad (c.1750)
A ‘Xácara’ is “a gathering of ruffians and rogues, picaresque women - but more noisy and high-spirited than criminal”. Justice is done to that description with castanets, percussion and guitars while ‘Bato's little song’ brings “the Devil down in flames!” Foot-tapping joie-de-vivre from start to finish.
J.S.Bach - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (1713)
One of Bach's earliest but most popular cantatas, highlighting Luther's great Advent melody. Rocking solo for tenor, intimate aria for soprano while the strings' pizzicato symbolically paints Advent itself knocking on the door of Christ's arrival.
Claudio Monteverdi - Beatus vir (1640)
Surely one of his best-loved pieces with catchy violin interludes over repeating bassline, sensual triple time middle section and resounding Amen. I Fagiolini's performance is spritely, following recent research on time relationships.
William Byrd - Lullaby (1588)
As a serene interlude, Byrd's intricate consort song, sung by the Virgin Mother.
I Fagiolini: Angels & Demons
I Fagiolini & Brecon Baroque
Angels, confused shepherds - the devil “shooting up in the air like a rocket!” - I Fagiolini brings an animated cast of Christmas characters to life in foot-tapping music from Italy, Germany, England and Spain.
Cristoforo Caresana - La Tarantella (1673)
A Neapolitan cantata (practically a pantomime) with the Devil symbolizing the Spanish occupation. Virtuosic angels sing to confused shepherds with echo jokes worthy of Monteverdi's 'Audi coelum'. A hypnotic Tarantella dance wards off the devil who appears with slightly butch demons before his dramatic departure. Truly a musical and comic gem that needed to be uncovered (and performed more often than Messiah...)
Iribarren - Xacara de Navidad (c.1750)
A ‘Xácara’ is “a gathering of ruffians and rogues, picaresque women - but more noisy and high-spirited than criminal”. Justice is done to that description with castanets, percussion and guitars while ‘Bato's little song’ brings “the Devil down in flames!” Foot-tapping joie-de-vivre from start to finish.
J.S.Bach - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (1713)
One of Bach's earliest but most popular cantatas, highlighting Luther's great Advent melody. Rocking solo for tenor, intimate aria for soprano while the strings' pizzicato symbolically paints Advent itself knocking on the door of Christ's arrival.
Claudio Monteverdi - Beatus vir (1640)
Surely one of his best-loved pieces with catchy violin interludes over repeating bassline, sensual triple time middle section and resounding Amen. I Fagiolini's performance is spritely, following recent research on time relationships.
William Byrd - Lullaby (1588)
As a serene interlude, Byrd's intricate consort song, sung by the Virgin Mother.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fpeWbIebz4
Bach: B Minor Mass
Salisbury Musical Society sing J.S. Bach’s monumental Mass in B Minor. This work was completed in 1749, the year before his death, when the composer was at the height of his musical powers.
Florilegium, the outstanding period instrument ensemble, will accompany SMS. Also singing will be the Salisbury Cathedral Choir.
The soloists include:
Ana Fernandez — soprano
Jessica Cale — soprano
Hugh Cutting — countertenor
Ben Johnson — tenor
The conductor will be the Cathedral’s Director of Music, David Halls.
This concert is the final concert of SMS’s centenary year.
https://www.musicinsalisbury.org.uk/?event=salisbury-musical-society-handels-coronation-anthems