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Voces Sacrae

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 MSV 92023 Seven Sacred Motets
 MSV 92035 Even Such is Time

 

Voces Sacrae is one of the most exciting and versatile professional chamber choirs in Britain today, having already established an excellent reputation and receiving superb reviews for every performance . The ensemble has been working in the fields of both contemporary (mainly a cappella) and Renaissance choral music and, from the mid-1990s, has been performing and recording in association with Oxford University Press, promoting their new choral repertoire. The choir is very keen to bring the work of new composers to the public's attention. Voces Sacrae has recorded a disc of choral works by Edmund Rubbra including several previously unrecorded items as well as its CDs for Metier.

The choir has broadcast on BBC radios 2, 3 and 4 and has given highly acclaimed concerts in venues throughout the UK. In 1998 it traveled to south-eastern Australia in association with OUP to give concerts and workshops, and performed on ABC's "The Music Show" following which several concerts were recorded for radio and TV. Voces Sacrae also gave the world premiere of Finnissy's Seven Sacred Motets in a packed St. James Hall, Sydney.

JUDY MARTIN, director of Voces Sacrae, was Organ Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge, from 1986 to 1989 where she studied conducting under Dr. Andrew Jones. On graduating, she moved to Oxford where she worked as organist and conductor with posts at Queens' and Exeter Colleges, and as conductor of the Arcadian Singers. In 1991 she spent six months in Sydney, working in the Music Department at Christchurch St. Laurence. In 1995 she was appointed Head of Music at The Abbey School in Reading, but in 1998 left that post to pursue a career here career elsewhere. She was instrumental in the establishment of a new choir at St Mary Magdalene, Oxford. Further afield, Judy is actively involved with Royal School of Church Music choirs and courses, She is Assistant Director of the Southern Cathedral Singers and in 2001 became Director of Chapel Music at Worcester College, Oxford, where she has established a new girl's choir.

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