Jeremy
[Video] De Profundis by Vasari Singers
Video preview of the new CD by London chamber choir Vasari Singers, directed by Jeremy Backhouse. Features Allegri and MacMillan’s settings of the Miserere, Malipiero and Pizzetti’s settings of De Profundis, and Puccini and Pizzetti’s Requiems CD to be released by Naxos in November 2014.
[New CD Press Release] Inside my heart – For Rowan
Charity single in support of the work of The Rainbow Trust Rowan is a beautiful 8 year old girl who has been fighting a brain tumour for 5 years. This release is inspired by her and her fight against cancer and will raise funds for The Rainbow Trust, who are […]
[Video] Rachmaninov Vespers – First, Third & Fifth Movements
Filmed during a live concert performance at Lincoln Cathedral Chaper House, April 2014. Movement 1 Movement 3 Movement 5
Join Jeremy for a Desert Island Discs Evening
Desert Island Discs featuring star castaway Jeremy Backhouse Join Jeremy on his desert island as he divulges the music he would want with him. Date & Time Saturday 22nd March 7.00 ~ 10.00pm Location Clock Barn Hall, Hambledon Road, Godalming, GU8 4AY. Tickets £22.50 Includes welcoming drink, finger buffet and […]
Jeremy to judge prestigious awards
Jeremy is delighted to announce he will Chair the Judging Panel for the 2012 British Composer Awards, Liturgical Music section. Organised by BASCA (the British Association of Songwriters, Composers and Authors), the British Composer Awards is now in its 10th season and accepts entries across 13 categories of contemporary music […]
Canticles and Candyfloss – Concert Review
St Peter & St Paul, Steeple Morden – 2004 Friends of SS Peter & Paul The concert by the Vasari Singers in the Parish Church on 20 November was greatly enjoyed by an appreciative audience. The first part of the programme, Canticles, as the title suggests presented more serious church music […]
Best of British’ (Parry, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Britten, Tavener, Dove, MacMillan, Pott) – Concert Review
St Martin in the Fields – 28th September 2004 Praise for this spectacular concert given by the choir “Take him, earth, for cherishing, in particular was really good, one of the best performances of it I’ve heard by an amateur choir.” Clare Stevens, Assistant Editor Classical Music Magazine. Best of British, […]
Pizzetti ‘Requiem’ and Kodaly ‘Missa Brevis’ – Concert Review
Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts Festival – 9th December 2003 Gloucestershire Echo Singers provide uplifting experience The current season of Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts has been unusually varied. This time it was the turn of the Vasari Singers, an excellent chamber choir from London. Directed by Jeremy Backhouse, the singers performed a wonderful programme […]
Songs for a Summer Evening – Concert Review
In the grounds of Olantigh House, Kent – August 2003 Friends of Canterbury Festival newsletter (October 2003) On a perfect August evening, 160 patrons strolled among the water channels in the landscaping and the beautifully kept lawns that sweep up to the Queen Anne style frontage of Olantigh (described more accurately […]
Parry ‘Song of Farewell’ and Brahms ‘Ein deutsches Requiem’ – Concert Review
St John’s, Smith Square – 10th May 2003 Inspired pairing is great musical treat It might all too easily have sounded like a rehearsal. The Brahms Requiem with piano duet? It may have been this thought that kept the audience rather meagre. The repeated low F at the start certainly shocked […]