Recent Events
The latest Strategic Leadership programme took place in mid November in Oxford, although the banking crisis has meant that several planned autumn workshops have not taken place.
A sextet of singers provided the music for a wedding in St Mary's Church, Kempsey, which included Byrd Sing Joyfully, Tallis If ye love me and Poston Jesus Christ the Apple Tree.
We were invited to take part in the latest African Leadership Institute conference in early September 2008, which took place in Pembroke College Oxford.
Musica Beata was invited to take part in the inaugural 'Faith in Leadership' conference at Liverpool Hope University in August 2008. This is a new national programme intended to promote qualities of leadership in young faith based communities, and was a very different experience to our banking workshops.
A quartet of singers performed a pre-dinner Grace for a conference on the history of the book, in Magdalen College Oxford in late June.
Strategic Leadership took place again in early June.
Our ongoing work with Standard Chartered Bank has continued with two workshops in a fortnight in early February 2008.
The most recent Strategic Leadership event took place in November, in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Oxford programme.
Celebration Concert in Long Ditton
We gave a very successful concert entitled 'A Baroque Celebration' to celebrate the Centenary of the village hall in Long Ditton, Surrey on Friday October 5. The response was extremely warm from a very positive audience. The programme for this concert, as produced on the night looked like this.
The programme was a varied one of sacred and secular baroque music, including Monteverdi - Beatus Vir and Purcell - Welcome to all the Pleasures, along with Vivaldi - Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera, and a capella madrigals and motets.
Art Beyond Entertainment
We have just begun a rather high profile extension of the workshops we have been doing, the first event of which took place in the Purcell Room at the South Bank Centre on September 24. This should be an exciting extension of the ongoing collaboration with Peter Hanke and Paul Robertson.
- Art beyond Entertainment: Leadership as a
Performing Art
Purcell Room, 24 September 2007, 10am to 4pm, £200.
A one-day interactive seminar with Peter Hanke and Paul Robertson, exploring leadership through practical engagement with singers and musicians. Peter Hanke is a conductor and founder of the European network Exart Performances, leader of the Voces Academy and affiliated with the Centre for Art and Leadership at the Copenhagen Business School. Paul Robertson is the leader of the Medici Quartet, a Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School and Director of the charitable trust, Music Mind Spirit.
Event History
We are embarking on a new leadership project with the Said Business School in Oxford, the first of which took place in late February 2006. We are now also working on an ongoing basis with both Standard Chartered Bank and ABN AMRO.
Another successful workshop took place in the chapel of Pembroke College, Oxford in November.
Following the death of Sir Douglas Dodds Parker, and old member and benefactor of Magdalen College, a quartet of singers performed at his funeral and memorial service in Magdalen college chapel in September 2006.
We gave a short, varied recital before dinner in Pembroke College chapel for participants in the African Leadership Institute Tutu Fellowship conference, hosted in Oxford in September 2006. Our programme included music as diverse as Britten's Choral Dances from Gloriana, and an arrangement of Neil Young's song 'After the Goldrush'.
The choir was invited to sing Sunday services in Gloucester Cathedral in late August, which was a great success, and one which we hope to repeat. We sang Victoria's Missa O Quam Gloriosum alongisde a short Lassus motet in the morning, with Tallis Short Service and Walton - A Litany at Evensong.
Another successful workshop took place in the chapel of Pembroke College, Oxford in May.
A demonstration of the current collaboration between Peter Hanke and Paul Robertson (formerly of the Medici Quartet) at the October Gallery in London in January 2006.
Ongoing collaboration with Peter Hanke involving workshops with Templeton College in May and November 2005.
In June 2005, the director was invited to take part in
Close harmony recital at the prize giving dinner for the Oxford Leadership Prize in June 2005.
The choir provided singers for a wedding in Magdalen Chapel in early January 2005. The bride and groom have since offered their sincere thanks for the choir's contribution to their special day.
We have also made a demo recording with Peter Hanke conducting, details of which you can find here, along with some audio files taken from the CD. With grateful thanks to Marshall Young at Templeton College for funding this project, and to Tim Roe who did the recording itself.