Name: Sounds Sublime 2025: Choral Tots Workshop 1
Start: 2025-07-12T11:00:00
Location: St James's Piccadilly

Step into a world where music transcends time and space with The Sixteen's Choral Pilgrimage 2025: Angel of Peace, a harmonious tour de force that blends the ancient with the modern. This remarkable series spans multiple venues across the UK and Europe, featuring works by medieval abbess Hildegard of Bingen and contemporary composer Anna Clyne. Join conductor Harry Christophers, violinist Sarah Sexton, and the acclaimed ensemble as they explore peace through music. Complementing this pilgrimage is the Sounds Sublime series, a vibrant celebration of youth and family choirs, offering workshops and performances to inspire and uplift all ages.

Harmony Through Time: A Journey with The Sixteen

The Sixteen

Composed in a staggering twenty-four days Messiah was first performed in Dublin in 1742 where it received a rapturous welcome. Not so the following year when it premiered in London to a distinctly hostile reception. It wasn’t until Messiah began to be presented in charity performances at the Foundling Hospital in London that the public started to embrace the work we now regard as Handel’s greatest composition.

Handel’s Messiah

St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London

Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín

Orpheus, they say, made music so beautiful that even stones responded to his song. Many music lovers would say something similar about Johann Sebastian Bach, and tonight we bring two worlds together, in some of the 18th century’s most unforgettable music.

Light and Shadow: London

Cadogan Hall 

This extraordinary project will bring together 100 community singers, vocal students from Trinity Laban, and members of The Sixteen choir and orchestra under the baton of Eamonn Dougan.

Come and Sing Messiah: London

Blackheath Halls

When Sir James MacMillan writes a new choral work, the world takes notice, because few living composers write with more honesty and passion. With a span of around an hour, Angels Unawares is a major new statement from MacMillan coupled with a brilliant libretto written by Robert Willis, former Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, completed shortly before his untimely death in autumn 2024. Who better to give the work’s UK premiere than The Sixteen and the Britten Sinfonia, both tireless champions of MacMillan’s work?

Angels Unawares: London

The workshop will be led by The Sixteen’s Learning & Participation Manager Jenny Begley, supported by a quartet of singers from Genesis Sixteen.

Sounds Sublime 2025: Choral Tots Workshop 1

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