Previous concerts

Songs of Celebration
Gloriana with Emma Johnson

Friday 8 December 2023, 7pm
Temple Church, Temple, London  EC4Y 7BB

Internationally acclaimed clarinettist Emma Johnson invited Gloriana to sing her Songs of Celebration – four pieces she composed for women's voices and clarinet – in a special Advent concert in Temple Church.

Gloria with Gloriana
Gloriana sings with Linden Baroque Orchestra

21 May 2023
St Stephen's Rosslyn Hill, London NW3 

Vivaldi's evergreen favourite, Gloria, with a variety of other works including Vivaldi Kyrie and orchestra works

Celestial Revelations

 Thursday 9 March at 6.30pm
St Michael's, Bedford Park
London W4

Gloriana celebrated International Women's Day with luscious pieces composed by women from Hildegard of Bingen to Cecilia McDowall. 

Songs of Love

20 November 2022
The Hurlingham Club, London SW6

We sang songs of love - seeking it, finding it, losing it and happy endings - at the exclusive Hurlingham Club.

  

Noctures

14 May 2022
St Albans Cathedral

Gloriana sang Debussy's haunting Nocturnes with St Albans Symphony Orchestra in the city's magnificent cathedral.  

 

Musical Garlands

Gloriana and IMVC

Friday 12 November 2021
St James's Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL

A garland from Pearsal, rousing music from Gabrieli and Wagner, lovers’ sighs from Rutter and Giordano, the Northern Lights, shimmering ethereally with the sounds of musical glasses and folk-song arrangements and popular pieces from Sondheim and G&S.

 
 
 
 
 

Farewell to Linden

31 July 2021, St Mary's, Welwyn

Gloriana said farewell to its wonderful accompanist, Linden Innes-Hopkins, with a short summery concert of music for women's voice ensemble and an organ flurry from Linden herself.

 

 

 
 

Pietà

Baroque Music for Female Voices

17 March 2019, St Stephen's, Rosslyn Hill
London NW3 

Instrumental music and pieces for women's voices from the eighteenth century for the period in the church calendar leading up to Easter.

 

It was a Lover and his Lass

A Whimsical Look at Love

9 March 2020 , Sky Pavilion, London EC4
3 December 2019, St Stephen Walbrook, EC4
29 November 2019, St Mary Abchurch, London EC4

A gentle stroll through the condition of love: joy, ecstasy, despair - and the perils of dating! Including music by Morley, Brahms, Vaughan Williams, Rutter and Gershwin.

Poppies • Peace • Power

17 November 2018, St Paul's Knightsbridge, London SW1

A celebration of the momentous events of 1918:  the armistice, women's suffrage and the achievements of women, especially in music, including pieces by Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn and Imogen Holst.  

Mayor of London's Carol Service

17 December 2018, Southwark Cathedral
London SE1

Gloriana sang at The Mayor of London's very special carol service in Southwark Cathedral for an invited congregation. The choir led the congregation in traditional carols and sang Duruflé's Tota Pulchra Es and Warlock's touching The First Mercy.  

The Spangled Heavens

25 November 2017, St Paul's Knightsbridge, London SW1

The premiere of Perfect Light, a new piece by Kim Porter, alongside starry music by Holst, Whitacre, Schubert, and Elgar's The Snow featuring violinists Serena Leader and Amos Sharp. Celestially inspired readings from Classic FM presenter, Charlotte Green, our patron.

Men from Mars, Women from Venus, Music from Heaven!

Gloriana with Imperial Male Voice Choir

21 April 2018, Holy Trinity Sloane Square, SW3

The two groups combined to sing Music from Heaven! with glorious Gabrieli and Poulenc’s Ave Verum Corpus, Gjeilo’s Ubi Caritas. Plus settings of Ave Maria from Bruckner and Biebl, Brahms’ Regina Coeli, robust contributions from IMVC in Weill and Starsong, a new commission from Chris Cook. 

Spirits of Heaven, Spirits of Earth

10 June 2017, St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, London EC1

A superb evening of music including the angelic Duo Seraphim by Victoria, the contemplative calm of Poulenc’s Litanies à la Vierge Noire, the luscious harmonies of Les Sirènes by Lili Boulanger, plus witches and sprites galore!

An Evening of Magical Music

8 October 2016, St George's Bloomsbury
London WC1

A diverse and lively programme with works by Holst, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Luzzaschi, Vivaldi and Esenvalds - plus Angel Voices, an exciting new commision by Andrew Parnell. 

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