Palestrina in Rome
Saturday 22 March at 7.30 pm
All Saints Weston, Esher, KT10 8JL
Join us for an extraordinary musical journey spanning five centuries of sacred choral music.
To mark the 500th anniversary of Palestrina’s birth, this innovative programme pairs his timeless Renaissance polyphony with modern masterworks setting the same ancient texts.
The choir
We are an adventurous chamber choir of about thirty experienced singers, drawn from south-west London and north Surrey, who rehearse near Esher.
Our grounding is in the Renaissance and Baroque, but our repertoire includes contemporary composers, rarely-performed and rediscovered music.
We mostly perform a cappella, but for larger works we attract first-class professional soloists and ensembles.
Our conductor
Patrick Allies has been the Ripieno Choir’s director of music since April 2023. He studied music at King’s College, London, followed by postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge.
He is now a conductor and musicologist based in London, artistic director of the vocal ensemble Siglo de Oro, and is researching fifteenth-century choirs and their performance spaces for a doctorate from the University of Oxford.