The Whispering Dome

This event is sold out but please contact cathy@bremf.org.uk to be added to the waiting list in case of returns. You might also like our Medieval Enigmas concert on 20 October.

A large-scale multi-media event featuring a varied range of traditional and early music from Europe, Morocco and West Africa tracing routes followed by migrating birds. Includes the world premiere of a new commission by Jeremy Avis.

Jeremy Avis voice, project lead
Simo Lagnawi voice, guembri
Suntou Susso voice, kora
Sam Stadlen viol, videographer

Horizon Voices
Lindsey James soprano
Sophie Timms mezzo-soprano
James Rhodes tenor
Alex Pratley bass-baritone

BREMF Consort of Voices
Deborah Roberts director

BREMF Community Choir
Andrew Robinson director

Children from Elm Grove and Westdene Primary Schools led by Rebecca Askew

Sound, lighting and projections by Pitch Black mobile stage

As a hint of some of the musical delights to experience on this annual migration:
we follow our birds out of Sussex with music from the medieval Lewes Breviary;
across France with Clément Janequin’s wonderfully quirky Le chant des oiseaux;
through Spain and Portugal with the extraordinary Lamentations by João Lourenço Rebelo;
across the sea to Morocco for fabulous traditional songs about birds;
and finally to The Gambia and the stunning music for voice and kora belonging to the ancient Griot tradition.

There will also be the voices of children and attractive new music by Jeremy Avis, with the whole journey accompanied by film tracing the migration route. Definitely a show for the whole family!