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Ex Cathedra Consort Comprising eight to twelve professional singers – who feature regularly as soloists with Ex Cathedra – the Consort is both one of the UK’s premiere vocal consorts and the culmination of Ex Cathedra’s commitment to choral training.It provides opportunities at the highest level for the UK’s best and emerging consort singers. Many Consort singers have, and continue to, come through Ex Cathedra’s academy system and many have gone on to pursue successful solo careers. The Consort has performed at festivals across the UK and Europe; recent appearances include the Aldeburgh, Aranjuez, Chelsea, Lufthansa, Santiago de Compostela and St David’s festivals, plus the Malvern and Warwick concert series. It appears regularly at Dartington International Summer School, both giving concerts during the week and acting as tutors on the Vocal Chamber Music course. The Consort records for Hyperion. It has recorded Fire Burning in Snow and Peerson: Latin Motets (2004). The group also featured prominently on Ex Cathedra’s New World Symphonies and Moon, Sun and All Things discs. Jeffrey Skidmore ........ is one of the country’s foremost choral conductors and is highly regarded by instrumentalists, singers and audiences for the high quality of his performances.Jeffrey is well-known for exciting programming which is often challenging but always accessible. He read music at Magdalen College, Oxford, before returning to his native Birmingham to develop Ex Cathedra into the internationally-acclaimed choral group it has become today. Directing Ex Cathedra, and its associated Consort and Baroque Orchestra, Jeffrey has appeared in concert series and festivals across the UK and abroad and made a dozen highly-acclaimed recordings. In the last five years Jeffrey has commissioned more than ten new works and conducted many world premieres by both well-established composers and new, young talent. Composers include Hutchins, Jackson, Joubert, Roth, Runswick, Sculthorpe, Shepherd, Wiegold and Williams. Jeffrey is a pioneer in the field of research and performance of neglected choral works of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, and has won wide acclaim in particular for his recordings of French and Latin American Baroque music with Ex Cathedra for Hyperion. An Honorary Fellow at Birmingham Conservatoire and a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, he has prepared new performing editions of works by Araujo, Charpentier, Lalande, Monteverdi and Rameau. Jeffrey is Artistic Director of the Early Music Programme at Birmingham Conservatoire and Director of Ex Cathedra’s wide-reaching education programme. He frequently gives choral training workshops and teaches at summer schools in the UK and overseas. He has regularly directed the choral programme at Dartington International Summer School and was Classical Music Programmer for the 2005 Kilkenny Festival.
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