Helen Chadwick, Karen Wimhurst, Sinead Jones, Katherine Zeserson: Women Make Music

This innovative choral project – directed by Sian Croose – is a collaboration between four remarkable female composers, each setting works by international poets on the theme of freedom as part of Amnesty International’s 50th anniversary. It involves ten choirs,of which 80% of the membership is female and nine are directed by women. As with ‘A Candle – Song Cycle for Choir and Trio’, Big Sky has a history of commissioning new music and has previously worked with the four women involved. The choirs from around the UK will each stage their own performance of the work between October 2011 and May 2012. The songs will then be published in order to make them available to other choirs and it is hoped there will be both a final performance with singers drawn from all the participating choirs, and the creation of a commissioning network that can go on to create new choral pieces in the future.

Further performances

10-11 Feb The Landowne Hall, Stroud
Sat 14 April Winffield Barns, Suffolk
Sat 21 April New Cut Halesworth, Suffolk
Sun 6th May Chorus 2012 at Southbank Centre – Front Room, Royal Festival Hall, 3pm
Fri 11th May A Concert for Amnesty at St Michaels Without, Broad Street, Bath
Sat 1 Dec Emmanuel Reformed Church, Cambridge