UPCOMING
Schoolboy and Sans everything world premiere
SongEasel: An Evening of Don Juan
more information and tickets here
Ella Taylor - soprano
Jocelyn Freeman - piano
St Catherine's Church, Telegraph Hill
Friday 31st May 2024, 7.00pm
Dilectus meus mihi world premiere
commissioned by Jessica Kinney and Jack Franklin for their wedding ceremony
Graham Walker - conductor
Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire
Saturday 22nd June 2024
NEW WORK
more details TBA
Uckfield Concert Brass
Nick Morris - musical director
late 2024
NEW WORK
LSO Panufnik Composers
more details TBA
Spring 2025
PAST EVENTS
Sweeter than Honey London premiere
Vox Urbane Spring Concert
more information and tickets here
Dan Ludford-Thomas - conductor
St Matthew's Church, Wimbledon
Saturday 20th April 2024, 7.00pm
György's Apprentice fifth performance
Sounds of Now - Ligeti Quartet plays Anna Meredith
Ligeti Quartet
more information and tickets here
Woolwich Works, London
Thursday 11th April 2024, 8.00pm
O Crux Benedicta
St Laurence Catford Easter Vigil
Jocelyn Freeman - conductor
St Laurence Church, Catford
Saturday 30th March 2024, 8.00pm
khāné (meditations on home) world premiere
National Youth Choir Showcase 2024
more information and tickets here
National Youth Choir Fellowship Ensemble
Nicholas Chalmers - conductor
broadcast from Voces8 Centre, London
Wednesday 28th February 2024, 6.30pm
One Thousand Threads Soho Radio broadcast
Max Reinhardt's Late Lunch Show
Wednesday 14th February 2024, 4.00pm
listen here
Coventry Carol
Great Sacred Music: The Three Kings
more information here
St Martin's Voices
Andrew Earis - conductor
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Thursday 4th January 2024
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Coventry Carol
Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, NZ
Sunday 17th December 2023
O Crux Benedicta London premiere
West London Chorale: Christmas by Candlelight
more information and tickets here
Hilary Campbell - conductor
St Nicholas Church, Chiswick
Monday 11th December 2023, 7.00pm
György's Apprentice fourth performance
Ligeti at 100: Huddersfield
Ligeti Quartet
more information and tickets here
St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield
Monday 4th December 2023, 7.30pm
Coventry Carol
Abbeydale Singers: Candlelit Christmas
more information and tickets here
Lucy Joy Morris - conductor
St Mark's Church, Broomhill
Saturday 2nd December 2023, 7.30pm
Coventry Carol
University of Warwick Chamber Choir: Strange is the Night
more information and tickets here
Suzzie Vango - conductor
Helen Martin Studio, Warwick Arts Centre
Friday 1st December 2023, 6.30pm
Coventry Carol
Temenos Chamber Choir: I Sing of a Maiden
more information and tickets here
Patrick Craig - conductor
St John the Baptist Church, Sevenoaks
Saturday 25th November 2023, 7.30pm
György's Apprentice third performance
Ligeti Centenary Concert
Ligeti Quartet
more information and tickets here
First United Church, Waterloo, Canada
Tuesday 7th November 2023, 7.00pm
György's Apprentice second performance
Ligeti Festival - Quartets and Etudes
Ligeti Quartet
more information and tickets here
Bourgie Hall, Montreal, Canada
Sunday 5th November 2023, 2.30pm
György's Apprentice BBC Radio 3 broadcast
BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show
Ligeti Quartet: Nouvelles Etudes
Saturday 19th August 2023, 9.00pm
listen here
Drop down, ye Heavens, from above BBC Radio 3 broadcast
BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert
Monday 23rd July 2023, 2.00pm
Presented by Fiona Talkington
BBC Singers
Grace Rossiter, conductor
listen here
Ave Maris Stella world premiere
Thames Philharmonic Choir: Great Cathedral Anthems
featuring a new commission by Emily Hazrati
more information and tickets here
Harry Bradford - conductor
James Orford - organist
All Saint's Church, Kingston
Saturday 17th June 2023, 7.30pm
György's Apprentice world premiere
Ligeti Quartet: Nouvelles Etudes
co-commissioned by Britten Pears Arts, BBC Radio 3, and Bourgie Hall
more information and tickets here
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape Maltings
Friday 23rd June 2023, 8.00pm
Mother Love world premiere
Oxford Lieder: A Grimm Weekend of Song
words by Venetia Bridges
more programme information and tickets here
Katy Thomson - mezzo-soprano
Rustam Khanmurzin - piano
The Levine Building, Trinity College, Oxford
Sunday 23rd April 2023, 2.30pm
My Name is... world premiere
Oxford Lieder: A Grimm Weekend of Song
words by Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh
more programme information and tickets here
Jonathan Eyers - baritone
Joseph Beesley - piano
The Levine Building, Trinity College, Oxford
Saturday 22nd April 2023, 7.30pm
Drop Down, ye Heavens, from above
BBC Singers: Stephen McNeff
more information here
BBC Singers
Grace Rossiter - conductor
Maida Vale Studios, London
Friday 24th March 2023, 2.00pm
Coventry Carol and A Clare Toccatina
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Daniel Blaze - organ
Graham Ross - conductor
Clare College Chapel, Cambridge
Thursday 26th January 2023, 6.15pm
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Coventry Carol
Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, NZ
Sunday 18th December 2022
Coventry Carol
Chapter House Choir - 'Carols by Candlelight'
more programme information and tickets here
York Minster Cathedral, York
Saturday 17th December 2022, 7.30pm
Coventry Carol
Vasari Singers - Christmas with Vasari 'Sing Lullaby'
more programme information and tickets here
St Paul's Church, Covent Garden
Friday 16th December 2022, 7.00pm
Coventry Carol London premiere
Voce Chamber Choir - 'Christmas Extravaganza'
more programme information and tickets here
Grosvenor Chapel, London
Sunday 11th December 2022, 7.00pm
Coventry Carol
Oxford Pro Musica Singers - 'A Christmas Cracker'
more information here
Keble College Chapel, Oxford
Sunday 11th & 18th December 2022, 5.00pm
Away in a Manger world premiere
Hampstead Chamber Choir - 'A Christmas Chorus'
more programme information and tickets here
Anna Cooper - soprano choral scholar
Emily Hazrati - alto choral scholar
Michael Stephens-Jones - tenor choral scholar
Dominic Brennan - conductor
Emmanuel Church, West Hampstead
Saturday 10th December 2022, 7.30pm
Coventry Carol Sheffield
Abbeydale Singers - 'A Heavenly Song'
more programme information and tickets here
St Mark's Church, Broomhill
Saturday 10th December 2022, 7.30pm
Drop down, ye Heavens, from above German premiere
Advent Carol service
Anglican Consort directed by Arwen Pearson
St Thomas à Beckett, Hamburg
Saturday 26th November 2022
TIDE first performances, Aldeburgh Festival 2022
a new chamber opera in development commissioned by Britten Pears Arts
Jerwood Kiln Studio, Hoffmann Building, Snape Maltings
Thursday 23rd June 2022, 11.00am & 12.30pm
more information here
Emily Hazrati - composer
Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh - librettist
Georgia Mae Bishop - Estèr
Katherine McIndoe - Amelia
Erin Gwyn Rossington - Ina
Eleanor Burke - director
Will Sharma - music director
Sophie McLaughlin - flute, alto flute, piccolo
Anna Caban - violin
Akito Goto - cello
This performance is followed by a post-show discussion.
The Sick Rose (Snape Maltings premiere)
Kieran Rayner: Wohin – Where To?, Aldeburgh Festival 2022
Peter Pears Recital Room
Saturday 4th June 2022, 5pm
book tickets here
Contemporary Collaborations
works for voice and piano by recent composer alumni and fellows of the GSMD
featuring Jabberwocky (London premiere) and The Sick Rose (world premiere) by Emily Hazrati
Lecture Recital Room, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Friday 27th May 2022, 6pm
Guildhall New Music Society Spring Term Event
an evening of new music for experimental vocal ensemble and composer-performers
featuring a new work made collaboratively by Emily Hazrati and Sam Greening
Centre 151, London
Friday 25th March 2022, 7.30pm
book tickets here
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Coventry Carol Midnight Mass
Midnight Mass, Christmas Eve
Friday 24th December 2021, 11pm; St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, NZ
Coventry Carol New Zealand premiere
Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Sunday 19th December 2021; St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, NZ
Drop down, ye Heavens, from above BBC Radio 3 broadcast
BBC Philharmonic and BBC Singers - Afternoon Concert
Tuesday 7th December 2021, 2.00pm
Presented by Tom McKinney
BBC Singers, recorded this month in Maida Vale, London
Conductor - Nicholas Chalmers
listen here (c. 3.45pm)
Guildhall New Music Society 'Alternative Lessons and Carols'
Featuring CHRISTMAS WISHES: a text score created by Emily Hazrati
Monday 6th December 2021, 7.30pm; Pembroke House, London
Drop down, ye Heavens, from above Advent Carol Service
Advent Procession and Carols
Sunday 28th November 2021, 6.00pm
Guildford Cathedral, Guildford, Surrey
The Choir of Guildford Cathedral
Conductor - Katherine Dienes-Williams
The Chef and the Sommelier online premiere
created on Performance Arts Lab Summer School
Sunday 15th August 2021
watch here
Composer - Emily Hazrati
Librettist - Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh
Soprano - Ella de Jongh
Bass-Baritone - Jacob Harrison
Piano - Aoife Moran
Paradise Garden world premiere
a new chamber opera performed by singers on the Guildhall Opera Course
Thursday 1st - Tuesday 6th July 2021, Milton Court Studio Theatre, Barbican, London
watch here
Emily Hazrati - composer
Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh - librettist
Martin Lloyd-Evans - director
Dominic Wheeler - music director
Louie Whitemore - designer
Finlay Anderson - lighting designer
Victoria Newlyn - movement
Eleanor Burke - assistant director
Will Sharma - assistant conductor
CAST
Innocent Masuku - Rostam/Shah Abbas
Segomotso Shupinyaneng - Maria de’ Medici
Laura Fleur - Venus/Ishtar
Kieron-Connor Valentine - King of France (Player)
Jonathan Eyers - Cupid (Player)
Ellie Neate - Maria de’ Medici (Player) as Queen of France
Florian Panzieri - Servant to Rostam
CHORUS of Florentine Revellers
Jonathan Eyers
Jack Holton
Amy Holyland
Cleo Lee-McGowan
Ellie Neate
Florian Panzieri
Erin Gwyn Rossington
Kieron-Connor Valentine
CLOUDSCAPES digital premiere
performed by Tom McKinney as part of Psappha's 'Composing For..' scheme
Monday 19th July 2021, 8pm
watch here
küçük aslan (little lion)
performed at The St Marylebone Festival 2021 as part of Creative Minds in Song
Monday 19th July 2021, St Marylebone Parish Church, London
Soprano/Fiddle - Theano Papadaki
Mezzo-soprano - Lydia Jane Haynes
Alto/Accordion - Bethy Reeves
Baritone/Guitar - Alaric Green
circling back, circling forwards
Thursday 8th July 2021, 7.30pm, St Giles Cripplegate, Barbican, London
written for and performed at Guildhall New Music Society's Summer Event: installations
küçük aslan (little lion) world premiere
performed by singers and instrumentalists from the GSMD as part of Creative Minds in Song
Thursday 8th July 2021, St Mary-At-Hill, London
Soprano/Fiddle - Theano Papadaki
Mezzo-soprano - Lydia Jane Haynes
Alto/Accordion - Bethy Reeves
Baritone/Guitar - Alaric Green
RED LETTER DAY digital release
launched by Illuminated River: a long-term art installation creating an orchestrated series of light works spanning nine bridges in Central London.
new work associated with Lambeth Bridge for chamber orchestra and narrator
listen here
raindrops keep dancing... digital premiere
Guildhall New Music Society: Spring Term micro-commissions
watch here
Voice Flute - Julien Harman-Evans
Piano - Thomas Ang
Contributor for Association of British Choral Directors Winter Webinars
'Multitude of Voyces' Anthology of Sacred Music by Women
Composers: diversifying the repertoire for today's choirs
Saturday 23rd January 2021, 11am - 12.30pm
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Coventry Carol published by Multitude of Voyces
Anthology of Sacred Music by Women Composers, Volume 3: Advent to Candlemas
launched December 2020, available to purchase from Stainer & Bell Ltd here
Song of Sara workshop and recording
Thursday 3rd December 2020, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
written for and performed by Eline Vandenheede (GSMD Opera School 2020)
A Clare Toccatina world premiere
Sunday 15th November 2020, 6pm, Clare College Chapel, Cambridge
commissioned by Choir & Organ in partnership with Graham Ross and The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
watch here
CamFM radio interview
Thursday 1st October 2020, 6pm, Can and Dec's Thursday Night Takeaway
listen here
A Castrated Confession digital premiere
Sunday 23rd August 2020, Performance Arts Lab closing concert
performed by singers from GSMD, RCS and NWU (South Africa)
Psalm 45: 10-17 digital premiere
Sunday 16th August 2020, present company Assumption Evensong
performed by singers from the choirs of Trinity and Caius colleges, Cambridge
listen with score here
The Sick Rose digital premiere
Tuesday 21st July 2020, Chetham's School of Music Vocal Leaver's Concert
written for and performed by Zachary Smith and Madeleine Brown as part of Quarantine Song Project
watch here
Choir & Organ Magazine feature
May 2020 issue, New Music section
read here
Jabberwocky world premiere
'Madness and Nonsense Rhyme in Song', Wednesday 4th March 2020, 1.20pm,
Newnham College, Cambridge
performed by Emily Hazrati and Ashley Chow in Raleigh Music Society's Recital Series'
One Girl world premiere
Tuesday 18th February 2020, 9pm, Sidney Sussex Chapel, Cambridge
performed in Sidney Sussex's New Music Series, in collaboration with The Minerva Festival, Cambridge
Drop down, ye Heavens, from above world premiere
Sunday 19th January 2020, 6pm, Clare College Chapel, Cambridge
performed by The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge in their evensong for The Minerva Festival: celebrating music by female and non-binary composers
listen here
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Sun and Moon workshop performance
Thursday 5th December 2019, 11am, Faculty of Music, Cambridge
workshopped by Tim Gill (cello) and David Gompper (piano)
The Four Elements London premiere
'Breathe Oxford', Tuesday 2nd July 2019, Royal Society, London
performed at Royal Society Summer Exhibition
Sweeter than Honey world premiere
'A Blue True Dream of Sky', Saturday 15th July 2019, 7pm, University College Chapel, Oxford
commissioned and performed by The Korrigan Concert
Settling workshop performance
Friday 22nd February 2019, Centre for Music, Oxford
workshopped by Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by John Traill