News
Ishirini sings for Bulgarian President
As pictured in Bulgarian newspaper Dnes (Today), and reported in the Orthodox Times, Ishirini sang for the President of Bulgaria during her recent visit to Bachkovo Monastery.
Theotokos review
Our Theotokos concert was reviewed on the Facebook page of Bachkovo monastery.
Members of Ishirini feature in BBC documentary
Members of Ishirini were filmed on the 22nd of February in Abney Park as part of a BBC documentary about Isaac Watts, to be broadcast over Easter.
Abney Park to host international choir
See the article previewing our forthcoming concert in Abney Park in the Hackney Post.
Hear My Prayer review
Hear My Prayer is reviewed in the Church of St Mary with St Alban parish magazine.
A gratifyingly large audience, with an age range from under 1 to over 90, was enthralled by the wonderful singing, superb musicianship and smiling and happy demeanour of the choristers.
£1000 raised for Kathmandu University Music Department
We're so grateful to our audience in Teddington at Sunday's concert for helping us to raise £1000 through ticket sales and donations. This will be a huge help to the music department as they find new buildings after last year's earthquake.
Tour to Nepal Easter 2016
We are very happy to announce our plans to visit Nepal in Easter 2016. We hope to collaborate with students from Kathmandu University Music Department - the only university in South Asia to offer an ethnomusicology degree, as well as pupils from Hindu Vidyapeeth school in Patan, Kathmandu. We also plan a second leg in the mountains near Pokhara. For any further information or to suggest any contacts that might be interested in working together with us please contact Jo: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Vespers underway
On Sunday we met in Bedford School to start rehearsals for the Monteverdi Vespers. We're very grateful to the school for their wonderful facilities, and very much looking forward to putting it together with instruments in a couple of weeks!
Another warm reception in Netherbury
We were very pleased to return to St Mary's, Netherbury, and to welcome Eastertide one day early with our programme of Passiontide and Easter music.
Rejoicing at Corpus
Ishirini are very grateful to the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi Cambridge for allowing us to sing our programme of carols from the sixteenth century to the present day in their beautiful chapel. The choir continued to enjoy the facilities at Corpus as we and our guests had our Christmas dinner in the hall!
Musica en las Montañas
We've just returned from a wonderful 5 days in La Alpujarra where we were looked after royally by the staff of the Hotel Poquiera in Capileira, and Cat Jary, founder and organiser of the Musica en las Montañas festival.
