Today at 7pm BST, Tenebrae Choir’s award-winning Founder and Artistic Director Nigel Short will launch an online course to teach all 40 parts of Tallis’s Spem in Alium to more than 500 members of SIC - Choir of the Earth.

The Self-Isolation Choir (SIC) has announced that award-winning radio presenter, classical music expert and former newscaster, John Suchet, will be the guest lecturer for a new Beethoven course in its popular lecture series, Around Sound.

As coronavirus restrictions finally begin to lift, many musicians are experiencing a “hallelujah” moment as they begin to perform once again. But one choir hit the headlines exactly a year ago for exclaiming “Hallelujah!” in the most literal and magnificent of ways… and now they’re doing it all over again!

SIC has announced an exciting new opera project, involving Donald Palumbo, the revered Chorus Master of The Metropolitan Opera in New York.

The Self-Isolation Choir is absolutely delighted that our marvellous Musical Director Ben England has been awarded the British Empire Medal by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in today’s Birthday Honours List.

We are beyond thrilled to announce that the amazing Ashley Riches will sing the role of Elijah in our upcoming Elijah at Home course.

The Self-Isolation Choir’s marvellous Musical Director Ben England has taken part in a series of conversations by the Royal Philharmonic Society, to share his experiences of leading the Messiah at Home project online this spring.

The Self-Isolation Choir is honoured to work with English composer Patrick Hawes on our July Summer School course, where we will learn and record Quanta Qualia from his album, Blue In Blue.

Watch a live stream performance of Handel's Messiah from all our recordings from an international virtual choir, now over 3,600 singers, including home recorded baroque orchestra and soloists, Sunday 31 May 2020 at 7.30 pm UK time.