Congratulations to Minerva Voices, the upper-voices chamber choir, the Cecilian Choir and Consort, and soloists on a gloriously technicolour concert in the Crypt of Canterbury Cathedral on Friday night, launching this year’s Summer Music Week.

Our annual festival was launched with a first half of ravishing colours from Minerva Voices, in works ranging from Sarah Quartel’s This We Know to Russell Hepplewhite’s evocative Fly away, over the sea, the Tudor round Ah, Robyn, and other pieces, accompanied by first-year Music Performance Scholar, Hannah Tudor.

The second half saw the mixed-voice Cecilian Choir, comprising students, staff and alumni, in a vivid performance of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, accompanied by a five-piece consort, and featuring solos from final-year students Leonie Carrette, Florence Kingdon, Rachel Fung and Amanda Schott.

As always, the concert is supported by the David Humphreys Fund, a bequest left by David in honour of his wife, Julia; the opportunity to perform in such a richly-sonorous, historic and intimate space is one of the highlights of the musical calendar, and we remain grateful to the Humphreys family for their generous support.