Dei Gratia Baroque Ensemble

Alongside well-known works like Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Passions and cantatas, Dei Gratia also creates bespoke programmes for specific themes and seasons, weaving together audience favourites with lesser-known works and forgotten gems by composers such as Telemann, Buxtehude, CPE Bach, Stöltz, Schütz, Purcell and more.
The ensemble also recently premiered the new, dynamic translation of Bach’s St John Passion by one of its members, Lawrence Olsworth-Peter and pioneered a shortened, dramatised version of this translation for use in churches and chamber venues.
The members of Dei Gratia are all active Christians with a heart for using their musical gifts to serve churches and communities and to encourage performers and audiences alike to think again about the glorious inspiration of these masterpieces and how they still speak to us today.
Biography
Dei Gratia is a collective of professional musicians specialising in sacred Baroque music on period instruments, partnering with local churches to put on performances that return these masterworks to their original devotional context, treating performance as an act of praise, inviting audiences to contemplation and reflection as they listen, and engaging audiences before, during and after performances through pre-concert talks, meditations and readings, and Q&As and conversations.
Alongside well-known works like Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Passions and cantatas, Dei Gratia also creates bespoke programmes for specific themes and seasons, weaving together audience favourites with lesser-known works and forgotten gems by composers such as Telemann, Buxtehude, CPE Bach, Stöltz, Schütz, Purcell and more.
The ensemble also recently premiered the new, dynamic translation of Bach’s St John Passion by one of its members, Lawrence Olsworth-Peter and pioneered a shortened, dramatised version of this translation for use in churches and chamber venues.
The members of Dei Gratia are all active Christians with a heart for using their musical gifts to serve churches and communities and to encourage performers and audiences alike to think again about the glorious inspiration of these masterpieces and how they still speak to us today.
Musicians
- April FredrickVoice
- Heidi JostVoice, Flute
- Katie LewisOboe
- Rebecca Dinning
- Anna Tetsuya