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Bulgaria 2026

20-26 August 2026

Bulgaria

Ishirini visited Bulgaria in August 2026, singing music in Church Slavonic, Latin and English in Plovdiv and the Rhodope Mountains

Izmir 2025

10-15th April 2025

Izmir, Türkiye

Ishirini visited Izmir in April 2025, singing a musical meditation on the Nicene Creed

Egypt 2024

31st March ~ 7th April 2024

Alexandria & Cairo

Ishirini visited Egypt in April 2024, singing in Wadi Al-Natrun monasteries, Anafora nunnery and All Saints' Cathedral, Cairo, and jointly with the Cairo Choral Society in the American University of Cairo.

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.