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Concordia Chamber Choir
Graham Ross - Conductor

Concordia Chamber Choir was founded in January 1998, initially as an offshoot of the Dulwich Choral Society. It was agreed from the outset that membership would not be restricted to Dulwich Choral Society members and new singers would be welcomed from the wider community. Meeting on a fortnightly basis, initially in members homes, the choir recognised early on that a concert programme was essential to give the group focus. The inaugural concert was given in Guys Hospital Chapel in November 1998 in aid of the Evelina Children's Hospital Appeal.

Concordia is made up of approximately thirty singers from around the Dulwich area, and beyond. Initially conducted by Susan Farrow, the choir is now directed by Graham Ross, who began with the choir in 2008, Concordia's tenth-anniversary year. Future performances for 2008/09 include Howell's Reqiuem, Rachmininov's Vespers and a special tenth-anniversary concert performance of Tallis's 40-part Spem in alium. In the past the choir has toured to Italy, France and the Netherlands, and will embark on another foreign tour in June 2009.

Graham Ross is a composer and conductor of a wide range of repertoire. He has worked with specialised ensembles and orchestras alike in music from Buxtehude to MacMillan. He is one of today's youngest published composers, and has had works performed throughout the UK and beyond. A passion at e believer in the unveiling of both unjustly-neglected and newly-penned works, he has given numerous first performances as both a pianist and conductor of a very broad spectrum of composers.

Born in Farnham, Surrey in 1985, he studied at Clare College , Cambridge and at the Royal College of Music under Peter Stark and Robin O'Neill. Generously supported by an H.R. Taylor Trust Award for Conducting, he has received tuition from and prepared orchestras for, amongst others, George Hurst, Bernard Haitink, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Pierre Boulez, Roger Norrington, Leif Segerstam, Neil Thomson and the late János Fürst. He is Principal Conductor of The Dmitri Ensemble; a group which he co-formed in 2004 based around the central core of a string ensemble, in order to explore in particular both rarely performed and newly-composed works. The Ensemble has been praised for its highly acclaimed performances, including works by Giles Swayne and James MacMillan in the presence of the composers.

Graham guest conducts numerous ensembles and orchestras in London. In November 2008 he made his Danish debut with Aalborg Symfoniorkester, and at Easter 2007 made his opera debut conducting the Choir and Orchestra of London in The Magic Flute in Jerusalem, the first ever fully-staged operatic production on the West Bank. He has worked as chorus master to Ivor Bolton and the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, and in 2007/08 held a conducting scholarship with the London Symphony Chorus. He is Musical Director of both Kingston Choral Society and Concordia Chamber Choir.

Graham is generously supported by a BBC Performing Arts Bursary, as one of four recipients of this prize in 2006. For more information visit www.grahamross.com

Programme
Adrian Batten - O Sing Joyfully
Tallis - O Nata Lux
Bruckner - Ave Maria
Tippett - Five Negro Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
Byrd - Sing joyfully
Tallis - If ye Love Me
Robert Parsons - Ave Maria
Tallis - Te Lucis Ante Terminum
Tallis - Spem in Alium

Concordia Chamber Choir
Graham Ross Conductor

Tickets includes glass of house wine or soft drink. A combined ticket for both the 7.30pm and 9.30pm concerts is also available for £35 from the box office on 020 7766 1100.

THE CONCERT IS 60 MINUTES IN DURATION WITH NO INTERVAL. LATECOMERS WILL BE ADMITTED DURING A SUITABLE BREAK IN THE PERFORMANCE.

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