Portugal 2023
4th - 11th April 2023
Lisbon & Porto
Ishirini visited Portugal in April 2023, singing a programme of music by Portuguese and other European composers, reflecting and celebrating the cross.
Scotland 2022
9th - 15th April 2022
Glasgow, Oban, Argyll & Iona
Ishirini visited Scotland in April 2022, singing Passiontide music in beautiful locations.
Ethiopia 2019
6th - 16th April 2019
Ethiopia: Addis Ababa, Lalibela, Gondar
Ishirini visited Ethiopia in April 2019, performing concerts and collaborating with local musicians.
Florence 2018
25th-27th August 2018
Florence, Italy
Singing music associated with Florence, including some pieces from the Medici Codex and some associated with Savonarola, Ishirini performed in Orsanmichele church, the Museo di San Marco and the Biblioteca Laurenziana.
Georgia 2017
24th - 31st August 2017
Georgia: Tbilisi, Mestia
Ishirini visited Georgia in August 2017, performing concerts and services and collaborating with local musicians.
Nepal 2016
28th March - 6th April 2016
Nepal: Patan, Bhaktapur, Kathmandu, Pokhara
Ishirini performed in various locations in Nepal, collaborating with university music students and schoolchildren and raising money for the Kathmandu University Music Department.
Música en las Montañas 2014
12 - 17 Aug 2014
Las Alpujarras, Spain
Concerts and services performing sacred and secular music as part of an international cultural festival in southern Spain, this year celebrating its tenth year.
Palestinian Choral Festival 2013
24 - 31 August 2013
Ishirini joined choirs in Nazareth and Bethlehem as part of a choral festival organised by Choir of London.
Jordan 2012
24th - 28th October 2012
Joining choirs from Syria, Jordan and UAE we took part in the second Aswatuna festival in Jordan, singing in churches, on top of mountains, in rock-hewn caves and in a airport-hangar converted into a concert hall.
Poland 2012
Aug 29th - 2nd September, 2012
Two joint concerts with Strzyzowski Chor Kameralny in Rzeszów and Kraków followed by a Sunday morning service from the organ loft of the beautiful Mariacki Church, just off the main square of Kraków.
Venice 2011
October, 2011
Contrasting pieces by Byrd and Monteverdi as part of Jubilate Deo in San Salvador and then a service at St. Mark's on the Sunday. Venice is beautiful on an unseasonally warm October weekend.
India 2011
February to May 2011
Singing a programme based around Bengali poet Tagore the tour to India started with a concert in Alverstoke in Hampshire, then on to Kolkata, Kalimpong and finally Dartington.
Upendo UK tour 2010
UK July 2010
With their colourful costumes and infectious singing and dancing, Upendo have a huge following in Tanzania, and in their tour to the UK got everyone singing and dancing, from workshops in schools and hospitals to services and concerts alone and jointly with Ishirini.
Tanzania 2009
April 2009
Hosted by the Upendo Group
The tour included several joint concerts as well as workshops with schools.
