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  • About Us
    • Chelys Consort
    • The Players
    • Guests
    • Programmes
  • Concerts
  • Projects
    • Gibbons 400
    • The Language of Bells
    • Consort Minus One
  • Media
    • Video
    • Audio
    • Gallery
  • Discography
  • Contact

Forthcoming Concerts​

Friday March 7th, 7:30pm
Gibbons 400 Festival
The Best Hand in England
Consort music by Orlando Gibbons, with David Bannister (keyboard)
​St John's College Chapel, Oxford
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Saturday March 8th, 7:30pm
​Gibbons 400 Festival
A Heavenly Harmony

Exploring the life of Orlando Gibbons from his birth in Oxford to his death in Canterbury, via his employment and travels with the Chapel Royal
With Vespri Segreti directed by David Bannister
St John's College Chapel, Oxford
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Sunday March 9th, 3pm
Gibbons 400 Festival

Dainty Fine Bird
Interweaving the wry humour and moralistic wit of the madrigals Gibbons himself described as ‘apt for viols and voices’, with some of the most expertly crafted consort pieces
With Emily Atkinson (soprano)
St John's College Chapel, Oxford
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Sunday March 9th, 6pm
Gibbons 400 Festival

Music and Readings for Lent, with the choir of St John's College Oxford
St John's College Chapel, Oxford
June 14th, 7.30pm
Vanbrugh Hall, Grimsthorpe Castle
'Music Divine' with the St Peter's Singers
Gibbons and his contemporaries
Tickets here
Sunday 6th July, 11am
Cheltenham Music Festival
'Fair is The Rose' - with the Gesualdo Six
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, GL52 3JE
Tickets here

Sunday 6th July, 6.30pm
Music in Country Churches - St Mary's Church, Longworth
A Heavenly Harmony
Exploring the life of Orlando Gibbons 
With Vespri Segreti directed by David Bannister
​more details here
July 10th, 7pm
St-Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, London
A Consort of Gibbons
with Chandos Chamber Choir
Orlando Gibbons for voices and viols
more details here
July 12th, 7.30pm
All Saints Church, Weston-Super Mare
Orlando Gibbons 400th Anniversary Concert
with the Costanzi Consort
​Glorious and uplifting anthems for voices and viols from the Elizabethan and Jacobean Chapels Royal
more details and tickets here 
July 24th, 7.30pm
Conwy Classical Music Festival, St Mary's Church, Conwy
What Is Our Life - with Gwendolen Martin (soprano)
​and David de Winter (tenor)
A celebration of the life and legacy of Orlando Gibbons
More details here​
July 25th, 4pm
Wesley Church Centre, Chester
What Is Our Life - with Gwendolen Martin (soprano)
​and David de Winter (tenor)
A celebration of the life and legacy of Orlando Gibbons
tickets here
September 13th, 7.30pm
Great Waltham Church, Essex
Orlando Gibbons with Essex Voices
more info here
September 28th
​Banbury Early Music Festival
What Is Our Life - with Gwendolen Martin (soprano)
​and David de Winter (tenor)

A celebration of the life and legacy of Orlando Gibbons
St Mary's Church, Babury​​​
October 12th
Little Missenden Festival
The Best Hand in England
Consort music by Orlando Gibbons​
November 1st
with North Cotswold Chamber Choir
A Song of Splendour
Celebrating the life of Orlando Gibbons
November 2nd
​Worcestershire Early Music
The Best Hand in England
Consort music by Orlando Gibbons
​The Angel Centre, Worcester
For excellent listings of all UK Early Music concerts have a look at Continuo Connect
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