About us

Co-founders - Ged Marciniak and Gregory Batsleer

Directors - Fiona Stuart and Maurice Walsh

Formed in November '06 by Greg Batsleer and Ged Marciniak, the Manchester Consort provides high quality performance opportunities for music students and young professionals based in and around Greater Manchester. Members of the Consort are aged between 18 and 30 and many are students or have been students at musical institutions in the city including Manchester University, the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham’s School of Music. The Consort is made up of a chamber choir and an instrumental ensemble that varies in size and type depending on the repertoire being performed. Recent performance highlights include Handel's Messiah, choral works by Whitacre, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and the Manchester Premier of Arvo Parts Miserere in Manchester Cathedral. In May 2007 the Consort performed Bach's Mass in B minor as part of The Chorlton Arts Festival. Future plans include concerts at the RNCM and Manchester's first ever professional chamber choir concert series.

The Manchester Consort is also an ensemble in association with the RNCM Outreach Department and the Manchester Music Service, with whom it will collaborate on future projects. In April 2008 the Manchester Consort and the RNCM Outreach Department came together to put on the largest outreach project ever seen at the RNCM with a critically acclaimed production of West Side Story. Plans for later this year include another production with the RNCM and collaboration with Manchester Music Services ‘Singing Teachers Network’.

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