Summer 2021

“One of the major highlights of pandemic music to date has been the online festivals of choral music created by top ensemble VOCES8.

— Financial Times

“The soul, like the moon, is new, and always new again.”

— Lal Ded

Together on our ‘lonely planet’, we hold the power to preserve what preserves us yet often misuse that gift. Sprinkling ‘Stardust’ through a summer festival celebrating cycles of renewal and regeneration in nature and spirit, VOCES8 led an internationally renowned cast joyfully exploring the yin and yang of our existence and looking forward to ‘A New Day’. 

Our Summer 2021 Trailer

Appearing in every UK main festival performance, VOCES8 united an exclusive line-up featuring new festival invitees The King’s Singers, Chineke!, Suzi Digby’s ORA Singers, a star quartet of Julian Bliss, Jack Liebeck, Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Katya Apekisheva, Mary Bevan, Zeb Soanes, the London Contemporary Orchestra and Robert Ames. Special concerts from the International Choral Biennale ‘Live From Haarlem’ included Cappella Amsterdam and the Doelen Ensemble, Consensus Vocalis, Laurens Collegium, Efterklang and the South Denmark Girls’ Choir. Returning favourites included I Fagiolini, Apollo5 and the English Chamber Orchestra.

From Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered, Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, and a Mozart piano concerto, through to music by David Lang, Eriks Ešenvalds, a cappella and choral favourites, world premieres by Taylor Scott Davis, Afrodeutsche, Donna McKevitt, Paul Smith, Joanna Marsh and Ken Burton; voices, instruments and dance created a summer adventure to fuel community and give wings to one’s soul.

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