{"id":11737,"date":"2025-06-02T17:55:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=11737"},"modified":"2025-06-02T17:55:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:55:53","slug":"summer-music-week-2025-crypt-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2025\/06\/02\/summer-music-week-2025-crypt-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Music Week 2025: Crypt Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"Our annual festival was launched with a first half of ravishing colours from Minerva Voices, in works ranging from Sarah Quartel’s\u00a0This We Know<\/em> to Russell Hepplewhite’s evocative\u00a0Fly away, over the sea<\/em>, the Tudor round\u00a0Ah, Robyn<\/em>, and other pieces, accompanied by first-year Music Performance Scholar, Hannah Tudor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

\"\" \"\" \"\"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.<\/p>\n