Old Street Band
From 2016, Old Street Band collaborated with director James Conway in a remarkable series of dramatic presentations of Bach’s St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, and Mass in B minor, in churches, concert halls, and theatres throughout the UK, collaborating with over 30 local choirs of diverse ability and background, including youth, Gospel and community choirs.
Digital work includes Machaut Comment oubliray?; Josquin Mille Regretz; Gesualdo Io tacerò; Ferrandini Il pianto di Maria.
Twenty years on, Old Street Band strikes out on its own, preparing projects live and filmed (and sometimes both), introducing people to unfamiliar masterpieces, presented in direct, unpretentious, and imaginative ways. The band prepares and performs in a collaborative, generous, non hierarchical fashion, combining experience with youth. The rotating leadership has included Naomi Burrell, Jean Paterson, George Clifford, Guy Button, and Eleanor Corr. Continuo players have included Joseph McHardy, Satoko Doi-Luck, Gavin Kibble, Jorgen Skogmo, Toby Carr, Jadran Duncumb, Carina Cosgrave, Judith Evans, plus wind players, Leo Duarte, James Eastaway, Katy Bircher, Philip Turbett.
Our next projects - involving music by Ferrandini, Handel and Buxtehude - mark the beginning of a collaboration with Artistic Associate Rebecca van Beeck, a designer and digital artist.
Biography
Founded in 2005 by Music Director Jonathan Peter Kenny, Old Street Band enjoyed an 18-year partnership with English Touring Opera, performing music from Machaut to Rossini. Fully staged productions include Monteverdi Orfeo, Il ritorno d’Ulisse, L’incoronazione di Poppea; Cavalli La Calisto, Giasone, Erismena; Carissimi Jephte, Jonas; Purcell Dido and Aeneas, The Fairy Queen; Handel Agrippina, Teseo, Amadigi di Gaula, Radamisto, Ottone, Flavio, Tamerlano, Giulio Cesare in Egitto (complete), Tolomeo, Alcina, Ariodante, Serse; Haydn Il mondo della luna, L’infedeltà delusa; Mozart Così fan tutte; Rossini Il viaggio a Reims (first performance on period instruments in modern times); Donizetti Lucrezia Borgia.
From 2016, Old Street Band collaborated with director James Conway in a remarkable series of dramatic presentations of Bach’s St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion, and Mass in B minor, in churches, concert halls, and theatres throughout the UK, collaborating with over 30 local choirs of diverse ability and background, including youth, Gospel and community choirs.
Digital work includes Machaut Comment oubliray?; Josquin Mille Regretz; Gesualdo Io tacerò; Ferrandini Il pianto di Maria.
Twenty years on, Old Street Band strikes out on its own, preparing projects live and filmed (and sometimes both), introducing people to unfamiliar masterpieces, presented in direct, unpretentious, and imaginative ways. The band prepares and performs in a collaborative, generous, non hierarchical fashion, combining experience with youth. The rotating leadership has included Naomi Burrell, Jean Paterson, George Clifford, Guy Button, and Eleanor Corr. Continuo players have included Joseph McHardy, Satoko Doi-Luck, Gavin Kibble, Jorgen Skogmo, Toby Carr, Jadran Duncumb, Carina Cosgrave, Judith Evans, plus wind players, Leo Duarte, James Eastaway, Katy Bircher, Philip Turbett.
Our next projects - involving music by Ferrandini, Handel and Buxtehude - mark the beginning of a collaboration with Artistic Associate Rebecca van Beeck, a designer and digital artist.
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