Armonico Consort is a critically acclaimed choir and instrumental ensemble renowned for inspiring audiences with passionate performances, providing imaginative singing opportunities for young people through their singing education programme, and helping communities through the power of music.

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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.

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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.

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Helping communities through the power of music

Led by Armonico Consort’s professional musicians, we bring our expertise and knowledge to create amazing musical experiences for communities.

We provide singing programmes for young people, employees, older adults, care homes and singing workshops for people who are living with dementia.

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Raising funds to change lives

Our new Encore Appeal focuses on the three main strands of our work: singing workshops to bring high quality music education to schools in deprived areas; our Memory Singers work to improve the lives of people living with dementia; and empowering composition and performance workshops for children with special educational needs.

Our work is more in demand than ever, and we need your help to deliver it.

Generously Supported by Mr Roger Medwell MBE DL who will be giving 30p in the £1 for every £1 donated, up to the first £100,000 raised.

What's On

THE FORGOTTEN SCARLATTI TOUR

THE FORGOTTEN SCARLATTI TOUR: 08/02/2024 - 29/07/2024

SPECTACULAR! THE GREATEST CLASSICAL MUSIC FIND OF THE CENTURY!’ Le Figaro   If you love both the splendid choral grandeur of Bach and Handel, but also the polychoral works of the Venetian Baroque and the ornate spacial complexity of Tallis’ Spem in Alium, this programme of Francesco Scarlatti’s rarely performed masterpieces in exclusive brand new

LOVE HANDELS

LOVE HANDELS: 22/03/2024 - 22/03/2024

After the popularity of this programme, we decided to give our audience an additional treat of this gem, Love Handels, which encompasses some of the most beautiful arias and duets from the Baroque period woven together with poems and stories exploring love through the centuries. Programme includes: HANDEL Duet: ‘Caro, Bella piu amabile belta’ from

MOZART GREAT MASS IN C MINOR | JS BACH MAGNIFICAT IN D BWV 243

MOZART GREAT MASS IN C MINOR | JS BACH MAGNIFICAT IN D BWV 243: 12/04/2024 - 13/04/2024

Demonstrating the huge influence of Bach and Handel who Mozart was studying at the time, his Great Mass in C minor is regarded by many to be one of his greatest works. Reflecting the pomp and solemnity which was characteristic at the time in Salzburg where it was first performed, it is a masterpiece in

OZ AND ARMONICO: ALE-LELUJAH

OZ AND ARMONICO: ALE-LELUJAH: 23/05/2024 - 23/05/2024

Join Britain’s best-loved booze brain on a Quest for the Holy Ale. Oz Clarke returns for another evening of music, mayhem, and mild malt liquor. Mixing in a four thousand year-old Hymn to the Goddess of Beer, with Purcell’s ‘Drunken Poet’, Bach, Weelkes, and some Hopular Hits of the Beerhalle, Oz will assiduously guide you

THE FAIRY QUEEN – HENRY PURCELL

THE FAIRY QUEEN - HENRY PURCELL: 21/06/2024 - 06/07/2024

For 15 years, Armonico Consort has been in demand by festivals in the UK and Europe to perform its inimitable version of Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. The singers and actors of the company now turn their attention to Purcell’s greatest semiopera in a brand new semi-staged version with a specially adapted script from Shakespeare’s ‘Midsummer

AC ACADEMY DOES THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL

featuring highlights from Carmina Burana: 09/07/2024 - 09/07/2024

Witness the spectacle of 2,500 young singers from 60 choirs across the UK, once again taking over the Royal Albert Hall, who have been trained by our AC Academy specialists. In a contrasting first half, the lighter side of music from the last 100 years will be retold including a world premiere from our legendary

ARMONICO CONSORT – ON DEMAND

Unable to come to our live concerts? Explore our brand-new On Demand concert series featuring some of the Consort's favourite early music repertoire now available for you to experience at home.

News

Auction raises over £14K for Encore Appeal

Armonico Consort hosted a fantastic ‘Once in a Lifetime’ auction on the 15th November, raising a huge £14,662 towards our Encore Appeal, which has been funding our core educational and community activities in 2023. The event was attended by 70 people and was led by Griffin’s Auctioneers and Valuers ...
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Encore Appeal Update 3: A Heartwarming Journey

Armonico Consort’s Encore Appeal is proving to be a remarkable and heartwarming journey. Thanks to your incredible generosity,  we have raised the outstanding sum of £219,096 so far towards our target of £300,000. 
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THE INDEPENDENT

Dido & Aeneas – “The vocal ensembles are beautifully sparse and luminous and the instrumental playing is brightly streamlined.”

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