Esterhazy Singers with The Little Baroque Company
Esther Jones - Director

Based in the City of London, the Esterhazy Singers is named after Haydn's patrons, the Princes Nicholas and Paul Anton Esterhazy. The music of Haydn is central to the choir's repertoire which also includes a wide range of styles, from Renaissance polyphony to ambitious contemporary choral music.

Esther Jones has been Musical Director of the Esterhazy Singers since September 2006. She read music at Oxford University, where she was organ scholar of University College, and studied choral conducting with Patrick Russill and Paul Brough at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), where she won the Irene Burcher and Thomas Armstrong prizes. She is currently Open Academy Fellow at the RAM, holds a London Symphony Chorus Conducting Scholarship and is the first Stanley Vann Scholar. She is Director of the RSCM Skills of a Church Musician educational programme and Director of Music at Christ Church, Epsom Common. She conducts several youth and adult choirs in the southeast and is assistant conductor to the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. She is also in demand across the UK as a vocal animateur and workshop leader and sings with Vox Angelica vocal trio.

The Little Baroque Company is a multi-national ensemble specialising in 17th and 18th century music. Formed in London in 2006 the Little Baroque Company is dedicated to making early music more accessible and is particularly interested in education and outreach work, giving inspiring and imaginative workshops for schools and other community groups.

Performances by the Little Baroque Company include the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Brighton Early Music Festival, Art in Action festival (Oxford), Handel's Partenope at Les Azuriales (Cap Ferrat), the opening of the V&A Jewellery Gallery and British Museum's Clocks and Watches Gallery, a promenade concert at the Wallace Collection, a lunchtime recital at St Martin-in-the-Fields and a collaboration with the Esterhazy Singers of Handel's Ester for the London Handel Festival. The LBC performed programmes 'The Isle of Chacona', 'Musica Poetica' (St George's church, Hanover Square) and a Messiah from Scratch with Laurence Cummings (Foundling Museum) for the London Handel Festival this year.

The Little Baroque Company has broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and was the winner of the Mortimer Award (RAM) in 2007 and of the Audience Prize at the new Fenton House Early Keyboard Ensemble Competition. Future engagements for the Little Baroque Company, whose players are from Australia, Holland, Hungary, Spain and England, include tours to Australia.

Programme
Haydn - The Seasons

Esterharzy Singers
Little Baroque Company
Mary Bevan Soprano
Greg Tassell Tenor
Marcus Farnsworth Baritone
Esther Jones Conductor

The concert will last approximately two hours including a twenty minute interval. Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance.

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