St Martin’s Voices join forces with cellist Adrian Bradbury for an evening of Bach’s glorious motets and cello suites.
Programme
Bach – Motet ‘Lobet den Herrn’
Bach – Cello Suite No 1 in G
Bach – Motet ‘Jesu, meine Freude’
Bach – Motet ‘Der Geist hilft’
Bach – Cello Suite No 4 in E flat
Bach – Motet ‘Singet dem Herrn’
Adrian Bradbury Cello
St Martin’s Voices
Ben Giddens Organ
Andrew Earis Conductor
Performers
St Martin’s Voices is an exciting and dynamic professional vocal ensemble, primarily made up of talented past and present choral scholars who come together to sing concerts and special events at St Martin-in-the-Fields and beyond. Recent performances have included Mozart Requiem and Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and Beethoven Mass in C with Southbank Sinfonia. St Martin’s Voices regularly broadcast on the BBC, including Radio 3 Choral Evensong and BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship and Daily Service. They also make regular national and international tours, including recent visits to the USA – Minneapolis, Washington DC, New York – and Johannesburg, South Africa.
Adrian Bradbury was principal cello in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYOGB) before winning scholarships to Churchill College, Cambridge (where he read Veterinary Science and Music) and then to the Royal Academy of Music (RAM). After further study in Berlin he developed an international career in chamber music as the cellist in Composers Ensemble (winners of the Royal Philharmonic Society Chamber Award, 2002), Jane’s Minstrels, Trio Gemelli, Touchwood Piano Quartet and Chamber Domaine, and as guest principal player with orchestras including London Sinfonietta, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Andrew Earis is Director of Music at St Martin-in-the-Fields where he oversees the music programme at this busy London church. Recent performances include Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Beethoven Mass in C with Southbank Sinfonia. He is a graduate of the Royal College of Music and Imperial College, London, and holds a PhD from the University of Manchester. In addition to his duties at St Martin’s, Andrew is a regular contributor to BBC Radio’s religious output as a producer of programmes including Radio 4 Sunday Worship and Radio 3 Choral Evensong.