Peter Seymour conductor

Highlights over a number of years include a Channel 4 programme about Bach performing Bach’s Ascension Oratorio. YBC is a regular visitor to UK festivals including Beverley Early Music Festival, Swaledale and Ryedale as well as York Early Music Festival and Northern Aldeborough Festival and has also appeared in France, Germany and Czech Republic. Most recently YBC appeared at Leipzig Bach Festival (2007), performing Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Bach motets.

BBC and WDR broadcasts include Biber Missa Alleluia, Bach’s cantatas for the Feast of St Michael and Haydn’s Theresienmesse. The choir’s latest commercial recordings include Psalms and motets by Victoria (2002), Monteverdi Vespers (2004), music of the Bach family (2006).

Next season includes Purcell King Arthur; Monteverdi Vespers; Bach Christmas Oratorio and St John Passion; a programme of Mexican Renaissance repertoire; and comparative settings of psalm texts by a variety of composers.

Sample Programme:

Themed programmes by country or composer or various settings of same text by different composers. Baroque and Classical programmes with Yorkshire Baroque Soloists. Specially prepared editions a particular feature (eg English Restoration, Bach family)

Recordings:

Victoria - Psalms and Motets (2002) (Serendipity)
Monteverdi Vespers (2004) (Cloister)
Bach family Motets (2006) (Cloister)

Performances:

16 Jun 07 Michaelischekirche, Leipzig Bach Festival
17 Jun 07 Thomaskirche, Leipzig Bach Festival
23 Jun 07 St Michael-le-Belfrey, York

Contact:

Peter Seymour, 11 Bootham Terrace, York
North Yorkshire YO30 7DH

Tel: 01904 652799

Email: ps22@york.ac.uk
Website: yorkshirebachchoir.org.uk