ILLUMINATION
Musical Director: Janette Ruocco
Administrator: Helen Bantock
Upcoming concert
Saturday February 25th 2012
At the round earth's imagined corners
Unitarian Chapel, Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead NW1 1NG
Illumination
The choir was formed in 2006 by the composer Miriam Mackie to perform music by living composers alongside established repertoire from the high renaissance and early baroque periods.
London concert venues have included St James's Piccadilly, St Giles-in-the Fields and the Unitarian Chapel Hampstead. The group has also been invited to perform in rural Oxfordshire. In July 2011 Illumination performed abroad for the first time with three concerts in Italy.
Membership of the group
- Rehearsals take place in a six week period leading up to the concert.
- Membership fees are payable on a concert-by-concert basis.
To enquire about booking the choir,
for details about joining , or to find out how to buy
Illumination's CD
and we rejoiced, please email
miriam or visit the choir's website: www.illumination1.com
Previous concerts
November 17th 2011
A concert of music by women composers
7pm St Vedast's, Foster Lane
Hilary Campbell, Rebecca Clarke, Evelyn Cureton, Eleanor Daley,
Evelyn La Rue Pittman, Libby Larsen, Miriam Mackie, Cecilia McDowall,
Janette Ruocco, Undine Smith Moore, Judith Weir
2011 Concert Tour to Italy
Photograph ©Roberto Mariani
The Meljon Singers & Illumination
English Sacred Choral Music
from the 16th, 20th and 21st centuries
Wednesday July 27th
9.30pm
Santa Margherita di Antiochia, Vernazza
Thursday July 28th
12 noon
Chiesa di San Michele in Foro, Lucca
Friday July 29th
9.30pm
Sant' Andrea, Levanto
Thursday July 7th 2011
I heard a voice from heaven
7pm St Giles-in-the-Fields , London WC2H 8LG
Richard Allain, Alexander Campkin, Orlando Gibbons,
Herbert Howells, Cecilia McDowall, Peter Philips,
William Walton, Robert White
Saturday February 5th 2011
Calm Me, O Lord
7.30pm Unitarian chapel, Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, London NW1 1NG
Maurice Duruflé, Gustav Holst, Libby Larsen, Morten Lauridsen,
Miriam Mackie, James MacMillan, Olivier Messiaen,
Francis Poulenc, Janette Ruocco, Pierre Villette
Tuesday December 21st 2010
Carols for Shoppers
5.30pm St James's , Piccadilly London W1J 9LL
Thursday November 18th 2010
Laudate Dominum
7pm St Giles-in-the-Fields , London WC2H 8LG
William Byrd, Rihards Dubra, Gustav Holst, Morten Lauridsen,
Miriam Mackie, James MacMillan, Francis Poulenc,
Janette Ruocco, Thomas Tallis, Pierre Villette
Saturday June 26th 2010
Renaissance and contemporary vocal music
7pm St Peter & St Paul's Church, Deddington
Anton Arensky, Benjamin Britten, Pablo Casals, Carlo Gesualo,
Jacob Handl, Howard Helvey, Arvo Pärt,
Henry Purcell, Sergei Rachmaninov, Janette Ruocco,
Heinrich Schütz, Igor Stravinsky, Tomás Victoria
Thursday May 20th 2010
Hear My Prayer
7pm St Giles-in-the-Fields, London WC2H 8LG
Felice Anerio, Anton Arensky, William Byrd, Anton Bruckner,
Carlo Gesualo, Pablo Casals, Bob Chilcott, Jacob Handl, Arvo Pärt,
Henry Purcell, Sergei Rachmaninov, Janette Ruocco,
Igor Stravinsky, Tomás Victoria
Sunday January 31st 2010
Blow, blow thou winter wind
7.30 pm St James's Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL
Alexander Campkin, Maurice Duruflé, Rihards Dubra, Howard Helvey,
Miriam Mackie, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Salamone Rossi,
Janette Ruocco,Vaughan Williams, Tomas Victoria
Thursday October 15th 2009
Motets, Madrigals and Mystics
St Giles-in-the-Fields, London WC2H 8LG
Maurice Duruflé, Rihards Dubra, Howard Helvey,
Miriam Mackie, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Salamone Rossi,
Janette Ruocco,Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Weelkes
Thursday July 9th 2009
Music for a Summer Evening
St Giles-in-the-Fields, London WC2H 8LG
Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finzi, Howard Helvey, Miriam Mackie,
Henry Purcell, Janette Ruocco, Heinrich Schütz,
Eric Whitacre, Thomas Weelkes
Listen to Illumination in concert
Recordings from the concert on January 1st 2010 at St James's Piccadilly:
