George Parris
@georgeparris.bsky.social
Conductor, singer, artistic director. Mainly UK & Finland.
Can’t wait to perform @hcmfuk.bsky.social on Saturday, with wonderful music by Žibouklė Martinaitytė, Lotta Wennäkoski, Perttu Haapanen, Arvo Pärt and Joel Järventausta.
Artist Spotlight: The Carice Singers
Don’t miss their hcmf// debut: Pärt @ 90 with organist Christopher Bowers-Broadbent + Baltic & Nordic gems, incl. 2 UK premieres.
Sat 22 Nov, St Paul’s Hall.
🎟️ £32/£41.60/£7
Buy yours here: hcmf.co.uk/programme/the-carice-singers-part-90/
Don’t miss their hcmf// debut: Pärt @ 90 with organist Christopher Bowers-Broadbent + Baltic & Nordic gems, incl. 2 UK premieres.
Sat 22 Nov, St Paul’s Hall.
🎟️ £32/£41.60/£7
Buy yours here: hcmf.co.uk/programme/the-carice-singers-part-90/
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Can’t wait to perform @hcmfuk.bsky.social on Saturday, with wonderful music by Žibouklė Martinaitytė, Lotta Wennäkoski, Perttu Haapanen, Arvo Pärt and Joel Järventausta.
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★★★★ Carice Singers, Parris, St Giles, Cripplegate celebrate Arvo Part's 90th birthday with Evelin Seppar an intriguing point of comparison writes @bernardhughes.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
Carice Singers, Parris, St Giles, Cripplegate review - 90th birthday concert also celebrates younger composer
I have always been a bit ambivalent about the music of Arvo Pärt, recognising his achievement in crafting a new kind of choral music, while often finding it hard to love, especially in large doses.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
★★★★ Carice Singers, Parris, St Giles, Cripplegate celebrate Arvo Part's 90th birthday with Evelin Seppar an intriguing point of comparison writes @bernardhughes.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
A real privilege to experience Festen tonight — the new opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage which I hope will go down as one of the greats. I’m still processing how brilliant that music was — it felt so natural yet at the same time so different.
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Festen opera review: Brilliant dance of light and dark
Mark-Anthony Turnage and Lee Hall have created a compelling work but you won’t necessarily leave it smiling
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February 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
A real privilege to experience Festen tonight — the new opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage which I hope will go down as one of the greats. I’m still processing how brilliant that music was — it felt so natural yet at the same time so different.
www.thetimes.com/culture/clas...
www.thetimes.com/culture/clas...
Amazing to get 500 people listening to our Palestrina concert on Sunday. “Fantastisk kvalitet och perfekt balans”, wrote Heidi Korhonen-Björkman in HBL. The past two evenings we’ve toured the same programme to Hämeenlinna and Turku. Bit tired now.
February 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Amazing to get 500 people listening to our Palestrina concert on Sunday. “Fantastisk kvalitet och perfekt balans”, wrote Heidi Korhonen-Björkman in HBL. The past two evenings we’ve toured the same programme to Hämeenlinna and Turku. Bit tired now.
Back in Finland with sun and ice, which means it’s Aurore Festival time. Such a joy to be part of this!
This evening Arte Minima Ensemble from Portugal gave a stunning performance, and tomorrow the festival concludes with Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli.
This evening Arte Minima Ensemble from Portugal gave a stunning performance, and tomorrow the festival concludes with Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli.
February 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Back in Finland with sun and ice, which means it’s Aurore Festival time. Such a joy to be part of this!
This evening Arte Minima Ensemble from Portugal gave a stunning performance, and tomorrow the festival concludes with Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli.
This evening Arte Minima Ensemble from Portugal gave a stunning performance, and tomorrow the festival concludes with Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli.
Super happy to see this nomination in particular. They say ‘riveting’ and ‘daring’, I say BONKERS, relevant, and hands down the musical highlight of my 2024. #RPSAwards @tippettmf.bsky.social
Staged for the first time since 1990, Birmingham Opera's riveting production of Tippett’s visionary New Year was a daring piece of artistic advocacy that engaged a fearless community chorus with a full-scale symphony orchestra and international soloists. #RPSAwards
January 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Super happy to see this nomination in particular. They say ‘riveting’ and ‘daring’, I say BONKERS, relevant, and hands down the musical highlight of my 2024. #RPSAwards @tippettmf.bsky.social
My short-lived new-year phase of being a felt-tip artist came to an end with this, seen here in its final resting place on a friend’s bookshelf.
I wonder what I’ll become next new year.
I wonder what I’ll become next new year.
January 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
My short-lived new-year phase of being a felt-tip artist came to an end with this, seen here in its final resting place on a friend’s bookshelf.
I wonder what I’ll become next new year.
I wonder what I’ll become next new year.
This is just so beautiful.
December 17, 2024 at 6:18 PM
This is just so beautiful.
The wonderful Daniel Kidane with also-wonderful Manchester Camerata in rehearsal.
It’s been a fantastic Focus Day so far here @wigmore-hall.bsky.social So rare to get a set of events so concentrated on one composer. Looking forward to this evening’s performance!
It’s been a fantastic Focus Day so far here @wigmore-hall.bsky.social So rare to get a set of events so concentrated on one composer. Looking forward to this evening’s performance!
November 30, 2024 at 7:22 PM
The wonderful Daniel Kidane with also-wonderful Manchester Camerata in rehearsal.
It’s been a fantastic Focus Day so far here @wigmore-hall.bsky.social So rare to get a set of events so concentrated on one composer. Looking forward to this evening’s performance!
It’s been a fantastic Focus Day so far here @wigmore-hall.bsky.social So rare to get a set of events so concentrated on one composer. Looking forward to this evening’s performance!
The Carice Singers (a vocal ensemble I created in 2011) is looking for a new Chair of its Board of Trustees! A very exciting time for the group, which has been operating within a professional context since 2018. www.thecaricesingers.co.uk/chair-of-the...
Vacancy: Chair of the Board | the-carice-singers
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November 24, 2024 at 3:30 PM
The Carice Singers (a vocal ensemble I created in 2011) is looking for a new Chair of its Board of Trustees! A very exciting time for the group, which has been operating within a professional context since 2018. www.thecaricesingers.co.uk/chair-of-the...
The most warm-spirited, generous and inimitable person — deeply saddened by her passing but happy that we met those precious few occasions. She made enormous contribution to our understanding of Irish music, inc. her beautiful book on Ina Boyle.
The Ina Boyle Society is deeply saddened by the passing of our dearest friend and Patron, Dr Ita Beausang. Ita will be sorely missed and we send our heartfelt thoughts and prayers to Ita’s family at this time.
Codladh sámh, Ita.
#ItaBeausang
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Codladh sámh, Ita.
#ItaBeausang
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November 21, 2024 at 3:34 PM
The most warm-spirited, generous and inimitable person — deeply saddened by her passing but happy that we met those precious few occasions. She made enormous contribution to our understanding of Irish music, inc. her beautiful book on Ina Boyle.