About Us
Inspiring audiences with passionate performances.
Critically acclaimed choir and instrumental ensemble Armonico Consort entertains audiences across the country with its high quality concerts, outstanding recordings and innovative projects. Drawing on the passions of forward-thinking founder and artistic director Christopher Monks, our professional singers and musicians perform inspiring programmes, spanning the Baroque to the present day.
Central to Armonico Consort is our education programme AC Academy, which reaches 15,000 children a year across the UK through its in-school Choir Creation Scheme and after-school AC Academy Choirs in partnership with music hubs nationwide.
The legacy of a choir that lasts forever
AC Academy is Armonico Consort’s extensive and imaginative singing education programme, which reaches 15,000 young people a year offering life-changing experiences and first-class performance opportunities through fun and engaging singing projects.
The charity develops and supports choirs and choir leaders across the UK through its in-school Choir Creation Scheme, after school AC Academy Choirs and SEN projects, in partnership with music hubs nationwide and in collaboration with venues such as the Royal Albert Hall.
By 2020, we aim to create 300 children’s choirs and 300 choir leaders leaving a singing legacy across the country.
What's On
Monteverdi Vespers Of 1610
Armonico Consort & Baroque Orchestra: 19/05/2017 - 06/10/2017
Oz & Armonico Drink to Music!
Armonico Consort & Baroque Players: 01/07/2017 - 23/10/2017
Beowulf
Armonico Consort & AC Academy Singers: 10/10/2017 - 13/10/2017
Come & Sing with John Rutter
Handel’s Messiah
Armonico Consort & Baroque Orchestra: 19/11/2017 - 07/12/2017
Handel’s Fireworks
Armonico Consort & Baroque Orchestra: 02/12/2017
Carols by Candlelight
Biber’s Missa Salisburgensis à 53
News
Tony Hadley at Oz & Armonico
Beowulf Diary, 4 July 2017, Toby Young, composer
Supersize Polyphony
THE TIMES
Splendid - Naked Byrd 2
THE INDEPENDENT
Dido & Aeneas – “The vocal ensembles are beautifully sparse and luminous and the instrumental playing is brightly streamlined.”
THE GUARDIAN
