Sacred Vocal Music: VOCES8

The 2023 Grammy-nominated British vocal ensemble VOCES8 is proud to inspire people through music and share the joy of singing. Touring globally, the group performs an extensive repertory both in its a cappella concerts and in collaborations with leading musicians, orchestras, and conductors. Versatility and a celebration of diverse musical expression are central to the ensemble’s performance and education ethos which is shared both online and in person. They are the world’s top-streaming classical vocal group. VOCES8 is passionate about music education and is the flagship ensemble of the VOCES8 Foundation which actively promotes ‘Music Education For All’, reaching up to 40,000 people annually.

VOCES8 has performed at many notable venues since its inception in 2005 including Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Berlin Philharmonie, Cité de la Musique Paris, Vienna Konzerthaus, Tokyo Opera City, NCPA Beijing, Sydney Opera House, Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, Victoria Concert Hall Singapore, Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico City amongst many others. This season, their 20th Anniversary season, they will perform over 100 concerts around the world including a birthday celebration concert at the Barbican, London.

The pandemic provided the impetus for two continuing initiatives: the VOCES8 Digital Academy, an online choral programme and the LIVE From London digital festival which has broadcast over 150 concerts with over 250,000 tickets sold.

VOCES8 is a Decca Classics artists well as on the VOCES8 Records label. The recording of Christopher Tin’s “The Lost Birds” was nominated for a Grammy-Award in 2023. Their new album is “Nightfall”, a collection of reflective and transcendent music inspired by the night. Recent releases are “A Choral Christmas”; “Home” conducted by Eric Whitacre, featuring his work “The Sacred Veil” and “Seven Psalms” by Paul Simon.

VOCES8 is proud to be working with Ken Burton as Composer-in-Residence and Jim Clements as Arranger-in-Residence. They publish arrangements of its music, original compositions and educational material with the new digital VOCES8 Publishing house, as well as E.C. Schirmer with whom they curate the VOCES8 Foundation Choral Series, and with Edition Peters with whom they have published two anthologies and a series of single octavos.

Program

• Giovanni Croce Buccinate in Neomenia Tuba
• Mendelssohn Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen
• Ola Gjeilo Ubi Caritas
• Pablo Casals O Vos Omnes
• Rachmaninoff Bogoroditse Devo
• Orlando Gibbons Drop, Drop, Slow Tears
• Arvo Pärt The Deer’s Cry
• Gibbons O Clap Your Hands
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Magnificat Primi Toni
• Charles Hubert Hastings Parry Songs of Farewell
  • My soul, there is a country
  • Never weather-beaten sail
  • There is an old belief
• Stephen Paulus The Road Home
• Trad., arr. David Blackwell Steal Away
• Gregorio Allegri Miserere mei, Deus

VOCES8

VOCES8 appears in Ashuelot Concerts 2025-26 International Concert Series courtesy of Opus 3 Artists