Anna Cooper, Vicki Stilwell & António Sá-Dantas

In AVA's debut concert they present a programme of music for high voices about love, passion, loss and longing from the renaissance to the 20th Century.

Programme: One Breathing

Orlando di Lasso - In pace

Orlando di Lasso - Adoramus te Christe I and II

John Bennet - All creatures now are merry minded

Thomas Weelkes - The Nightingale

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - Lascia Fili mia cara

Gustav Holst - If you love songs

Gustav Holst - Lovely Venus

Thomas Weelkes - Tan ta ra ran tan tant

Thomas Morley - See, see, mine own sweet jewel

Thomas Weelkes - Late in my rash accounting

Maria Hester Park - Breathe soft ye winds

Gustav Holst - David’s Lament for Jonathan

John Dowland (arr. Sá-Dantas) - Weep you no more sad fountains

David Sidney Morgan - Weep you no more sad fountains

Thomas Weelkes - Though my carriage be but careless

Maria Hester Park - Dirge in Cymbeline

Clemens non Papa - Au joli bois

Adrian Willaert - Au joli bois (Baisez moi)

Thomas Morley - Lady those eyes

Thomas Weelkes - Four arms, two necks, one breathing

AVA is a newly established high voices trio with Anna Cooper, Vicki Stilwell and António Sá-Dantas. Having met as singing scholars in St. James’s Piccadilly, they soon started working regularly to explore music from the Renaissance to contemporary works. One Breathing is their debut concert and an exploration into pieces across the ages on differing themes of love.

Anna is a choral and solo soprano based in London and currently is a choral scholar at St Martin-in-the-Fields and deps regularly in a number of churches. She was a Choral Scholar, Musical Director of the Fitz Sirens, and President of her College’s Music Society.

Vicki is a London based choral and solo soprano. She is the founder and soprano for the Sonare quartet. Victoria runs her thriving private teaching studio and works as a singer-songwriter for music libraries.

António is a countertenor, conductor and composer. Artistic director of the instrumental ensemble Cat’s Cradle Collective, he also conducts multiple choirs in the UK and works as a freelance singer.

Singing trio – past music scholars of St James’s Church, Piccadilly

Entry

Not ticketed. Free Entry. Retiring collection - suggested donation £5