News

March 2009 The Recorder Magazine' Spring Issue 2009 Interview - 'Alan Davis talks to the innovative young recorder consort'.
February 2009 C5 on YouTube! Here is our first appearance on YouTube from our St Martin in the Fields concert, 9th December 2008. Click here to view.
January 2009 More Reviews! After a very successful debut at the Purcell Room we are delighted with two more reviews from The Times and Classicalsource.com.
September 2008 On Saturday 6th September join C5 in Devon at the Totnes Festival 2008 for 'Noyses Sounds and Sweet Ayres' - an exploration of the treasures of Elizabethan and Jacobean music. www.totnesfestival.com for more info.

July 2008 C5 has been selected to be Park Lane Group Young Artists for 2008-09 and as such will give their debut performance in the Purcell Room, London on 5th January 2009 as part of the PLG Young Artists New Year Series. See the Concerts page for more info.

May 2008
Renaissance²
In May Consortium5 will be performing at the Grosvenor Chapel in Mayfair, an exciting concert juxtaposing historical performance and new commissions from composers at the three London Conservatoires.

25th May 2008, 7pm

WORLD PREMIERE

Daniel Bickerton - The Court Jester

Dominic Irving - Siciliana

Matthew Orange - Quasi Nomine

Tim Richards - Tangletalk

Alan Taylor - Eleison

Ayanna Witter-Johnson - Circus II

LONDON PREMIERE

Katie Butler - Chanterelle

Brooks Frederickson - Quintet for 15 Recorders

And works by Byrd, Tye, Ward, Scheidt, Dowland and others.

April 2008
At the end of April Consortium5 travel to Glasgow to perform in the UK Conservatoire Composers Forum. They will be performing the World Premiere of pieces by composers from the Royal College of Music and the Guild Hall School of Music and Drama. See the Concerts page for more info.

February 2008
C5 have been busy in the studio through 2007 recording some new tracks; you can listen to excerpts from these here. Hopefully there will be more later this year so watch this space!

January 2008
C5 have just completed a tour of schools in North London on behalf of Enfield Arts Support Service, giving a series of demonstration concerts to introduce the recorder to hundreds of school pupils and to challenge their preconceptions of the instrument. Keep checking back for more information about this, and other educational work, up soon.

October 2007
C5 will be playing live on the BBC Radio 3 programme "In Tune" on Monday 15th October 2007, at around 6:15pm.
They will be presenting a programme to include works by the renowned renaissance composers Byrd, Dowland, Holborne and Tye, and will also be performing the final movement from Luke Styles' "Three Stages", a work they commissioned and recently premiered.

July 2007
Consortium5 have just have been appointed the English Concert Junior Fellows at Trinity College of Music, London, for the academic year 2007-2008.
As a large part of our work at Trinity, they will forging links with student composers and are commissioning works for the renaissance consort of recorders that explore and test the limits of the instrument's possibilities.