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Autumn Premieres of new motets by Robert Hugill
Added: (Sat Sep 26 2009)
Autumn Premieres of new motets by Robert Hugill
at St. Botolph without Bishopsgate and at St. Johns Smith Square
This Autumn sees the premieres in London of two new commissions from Robert Hugill. Both are motets for unaccompanied choir.
On Monday 12 th October 2009 Robert Hugill’s introit motet, Thou, O Christ , will be premiered at 6pm Evensong at the church of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate, Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3TL. The motet will be sung by the choir of St. Botolph’s church, conductor Timothy Storey. Thou, O Christ is a setting of an English translation prayer by St. Symeon the New Theologian, a saint of the Eastern Orthodox Church who lived in the 10 th century. Robert Hugill was commissioned to specifically write a setting by St. Symeon for the choir of St. Botolph's Church.
On Saturday 19 th December, Robert Hugill’s motet Videte Miraculum will be premiered by Chapelle du Roi, conductor Alistair Dixon, at St. John’s Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HA. The performance forms part of their concert, New Lamps for Old which takes place as part of St. John’s Smith Square’s 24 th Annual Christmas Festival. The concert contrasts new and old settings of the same texts and includes motets by Paul Ayres, Francis Pott, Morten Lauridsen, Gabriel Jackson, Thomas Tallis and Palestrina. Robert Hugill’s motet sets the same Latin text as Thomas Tallis’s Respond of the same name. Though Robert Hugill uses a contemporary idiom, his style is inflected by plain-chant and his motet uses the same structure as the original Respond. Tickets for the concert price £25.00 / £20.00 / £15.00 / £10.00 are available from St. John’s Smith Square, telephone 020 7222 1061.