ByrdStories

Jul 241 min read

Byrd Takes Flight with Corvus Consort

Carrying on the celebrations! Over the next week, Corvus Consort will tour its programme, Byrd Takes Flight, curated for the #Byrd2023...

May 151 min read

Snaps: Stile Antico Workshop @ Northumbria University

While Stile Antico was in the Northeast this March for their concert at Newcastle Cathedral (and 'Reasons to Sing' Family Concert), some...

Mar 181 min read

Kerry Andrew 'Oh, Sing' / Stile Antico's Newcastle Cathedral Family Concert

Stile Antico/the Byrd Central team commissioned composer and writer Kerry Andrew to create a piece with a text inspired by Byrd's...

Mar 172 min read

In memoria: Byrd scholar Alan Brown

Alan Brown, PhD (Cantab), LRAM, FRCO, was born in London in 1941 and was for thirty-three years successively Lecturer, and then Reader,...

Feb 81 min read

Horizon Voices helps students in Bham, Leeds, and the NE find their 'Reasons to Sing'

Over the last six months, members of Horizon Voices have been delivering our hybrid music education and wellbeing project, Byrd: Reasons...

Dec 21, 20231 min read

New Book: Byrd Studies in the Twenty-First Century

The first collected edition of new Byrd scholarship since 1992.

Oct 20, 20231 min read

Friederike Chylek releases her latest album, "Tallis - Byrd - Gibbons" with OehmsClassics

Today, 20 October, harpsichordist Friederike Chylek releases her latest album, "Tallis - Byrd - Gibbons" with OehmsClassics.

Oct 10, 20231 min read

Byrd on Choral Chihuahua

Katie from Byrd Central joins Andrew Carwood, DoM at St Paul's Cathedral/hand waver of the Cardinall's Musick, hosted by the lovely...

Jul 25, 20231 min read

We're going to Portland, Oregon!

Cantores in Ecclesia Present the Twenty-Fourth William Byrd Festival, August 4-20 2023 The annual William Byrd Festival returns to...

Jun 25, 20231 min read

Byrd 400 Symposium at Lincoln Cathedral

Full programme and abstracts for the William Byrd at Lincoln Symposium

May 26, 20231 min read

Hyrd Like Byrd?: St Telio Organ

How close can we get to knowing what Byrd's Second Service might have sounded like in his day? One starting point for such an inquiry...

Apr 17, 20234 min read

How William Byrd’s ‘Reasons… to Sing’ are inspiring young singers today

In 1588 as England faced the Spanish Armada Tudor composer William Byrd was fighting his own artistic battle: to persuade a country in...

Mar 9, 20231 min read

William Byrd at Lincoln:A Symposium Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Composer’s Death

3-4 July 2023, Lincoln Cathedral 2023 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd. Lincoln Cathedral was Byrd’s first known...

Feb 1, 20231 min read

Byrd-a-Thon for Mary Mags

A collaborative complete sight-read performance of the Latin choral works of William Byrd to raise money for the Mags music fund.

Jan 6, 20231 min read

Graphical Scores by Musanim

We are delighted to share some visualisations of Byrd's music by Stephen Malinowski (with additional scores forthcoming as a part of our...

Jan 6, 20231 min read

Gesualdo Six & Secret Byrd

Witness this extraordinary theatrical concert, which celebrates the 400 year legacy of William Byrd, one of England’s finest composers....

Nov 22, 20222 min read

Westminster Cathedral Choir launch year-long celebration of 400th anniversary of William Byrd

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd, Westminster Cathedral Choir will perform the entirety of his Gradualia,...

Oct 7, 20223 min read

The Sixteen, Byrd 1611 & Whitney's Emblems

Bank take a peek at Byrd's use of visual culture and consort song performance in Byrd's final songbook, Psalmes, Songs and Sonnets (1611).

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