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Live Music
21 Dec 2024
7:30 pm
St Christopher's Church, Christopher's Green, Haslemere, UK

HHH Concerts present The Queen's Six

Elisabeth Paul alto
Tom Lilburn alto
Nicholas Madden tenor
Dominic Bland tenor
Andrew Thompson bass-baritone
Simon Whiteley bass-baritone


The programme will be an eclectic mix of seasonal music from arrangements of traditional English song, through William Byrd to Richard Rodney Bennett and John Taverner; and including upbeat jazz, modern and seasonal arrangements to fill you with joyous Christmas spirit.


Based at Windsor Castle, members of The Queen's Six make up part of the Lay Clerks of St George's Chapel, whose homes lie within the Castle walls. The Chapel Choir, which consists of boy trebles and twelve professional adult singers, performs some eight services a week, as well as at private and state occasions, often before the Royal Family. In 2018, group members' duties with the Chapel Choir included singing for the wedding of Prince Harry and Ms Meghan Markle, now The Duke and Duchess of Sussex; in 2021, three members of the group sang at the funeral of HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh; and in 2022, members of the group sang at the Committal part of the official funeral services for Queen Elizabeth II.


Most significantly, however, it is the familiarity of living and singing together in Chapel every day that lends this group its distinctive closeness and blend, as well as an irresistible informality and charm.


Individually, members of The Queen’s Six have appeared in many of the most prestigious vocal ensembles on the circuit, including The Tallis Scholars, Tenebrae and The Sixteen. Their repertoire extends far beyond the reach of the choir stalls: from austere early chant, florid Renaissance polyphony, lewd madrigals and haunting folk songs to upbeat jazz and pop arrangements.

Since 2019, the group has recorded on the Signum Classics label, releasing albums of British folk songs, Hispanic Renaissance music, and arrangements of the songs of Tom Lehrer. In 2022, they released a recording of pop love songs, their first professional pop album.


Recent and upcoming tours include the group's first trips to Bulgaria, Norway and Denmark, and return trips to the Baltic States, Germany and the USA. In February 2023, the group made its debut at New York City's Town Hall. They also appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and CBS Sunday Morning, as well as articles about the group featuring in People magazine.

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