Musical Director: Timothy Coleman
Our Fringe concert this year is proving extremely popular, with the Fringe Box Office selling out this morning (Friday 23 August 2024). We are working to get a final tranche of tickets allocated to the Box Office for additional sales (so do try, and snap them up if you can!), but it’s looking tight… Sales … Read more
More radio play for our latest CD, Bright Star, as it was selected by Petroc Trelawney on his Breakfast show this morning. This was as a result of a request from a Cadenza fan, Ian Brockbank, who suggested Taladh Chriosta. Thanks Ian! You can find the programme on BBC Sounds at the link below, and … Read more
If you have followed Cadenza for a while, you will know how much we all enjoy our Christmas concert. Which is why we were disappointed to have to cancel our 2020 performance and run a reduced-length (and capacity) concert in 2021, both as a result of the Covid pandemic. However, for 2022 we are delighted … Read more
We are delighted to introduce and welcome Timothy Coleman as Musical Director of Cadenza. A conductor and tenor originally from Aberdeen, Timothy studied PPE at Oxford University and spent five years as a freelance choral singer and lay-clerk with the Choir of New College, Oxford. Most recently he graduated from the Royal Welsh College of … Read more
Regular visitors to our website over the last few months will have noticed a large yellow banner announcing that we were looking for a new MD. And you will have also noticed that the yellow banner has gone … which can only mean one thing … After 22 highly-successful years at the helm, we have … Read more
The Dresden court employed theorbo players as early as 1590, and Antonio Lotti would have certainly have been aware of the player, Leopold Weiss, while in Dresden from 1717-1719. Weiss was described by his pupil Princess Sophie Wilhelmine, sister of Crown Prince Frederick, as the “famous Weiss, who excels so greatly on the lute, that … Read more
Our Fringe concert this year contains a performance of Handel’s Foundling Hospital Anthem, including it’s famous final chorus Hallelujah. In this article Cadenza’s Secretary, Morna Fleming, provides a bit more background to the hospital based on a visit some years ago, as well as historical detail on the building itself and Handel’s involvement in it’s … Read more
Following on from our first (and highly successful) video on YouTube, we are proud to present our newest offering available now! This beautifully-shot video was recorded in the stunning surroundings of The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and in St John’s Church, Lothian Road, in October 2021. This was shortly after the choir returned to in-person … Read more
One of our members rose early on Christmas morning and, like so many others, turned on his radio to BBC Radio 3 for the Breakfast Show. The show was hosted by Elizabeth Alker and the third piece to be played was performed by Cadenza! From our Voices of Joy CD, Poulenc’s O magnum mysterium (from … Read more
Cadenza is delighted to announce that we’ve started a YouTube channel and our first video is now available to view just in time for Christmas! You can view it directly below: As you will know, choir life has been difficult during the pandemic. For over a year and a half we were unable to meet … Read more