The Davey Consort

Established by the composer/conductor Ryan Wigglesworth and soprano Sophie Bevan MBE in 2017, The Davey Consort takes its name from John Davey who, in 1849, commissioned the building of the beautiful Catholic Church of St Birinus in Dorchester-on-Thames, where the consort is based.

The Davey Consort was founded to promote greater knowledge of, and wider access to the performance of Gregorian chant and sacred music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, both in concert and within the context of the Catholic liturgy.

The Davey Consort organises the annual St Birinus Festival in order to further the aims of the Consort. The festival hopes to bring this music to the widest possible audience and engage the greatest possible number of professional early musicians. The festival brings recitals, concerts, liturgies, workshops, talks and much more.