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11.05.26

EXPOSURE 2026

Milton Court Concert Hall, London

EXAUDI returns to Milton Court for its much-anticipated annual festival of new works for voices, EXPOSURE.  Alongside pieces from Guildhall MMmus students, EXAUDI will premiere new works by former GSMD student Joanna Ward and the legendary Michael Finnissy in his 80th birthday year.

 

Barbara Monk-Feldman: Voices, Viola (2025, wp)
Joanna Ward: new work (wp)
Michael Finnissy: Seven Pavans; new work (wp)
and works by Molly Frances Arnuk, Pernille Faye, Lucy Holmes, Yuyang Li, Emily Pedersen and Andre Serra
This is event is Free - no tickets required
EXAUDI gratefully acknowledges funding from The Radcliffe Trust, the Hinrichsen Foundation and the Vaughan-Williams Foundation towards the commissioning and performance of tonight's works.

 

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14.05.26

Sweet stay awhile – Songs around Dowland

St Botolph's-without-Bishopgate, London

EXAUDI marks the 400th anniversary of the death of John Dowland with a rich programme centred on his lute songs, both in their original guise for solo voice and in his own arrangements for four voices. Alongside these they sing madrigals by his contemporary Thomas Morley, together with present-day responses and reflections on his music, culminating in the dramatic and moving Song by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, based on Dowland's famous Flow my tears.

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15.05.26

Sweet stay awhile – Songs around Dowland

Brasenose College, Oxford

EXAUDI marks the 400th anniversary of the death of John Dowland with a rich programme centred on his lute songs, both in their original guise for solo voice and in his own arrangements for four voices. Alongside these they sing madrigals by his contemporary Thomas Morley, together with present-day responses and reflections on his music, culminating in the dramatic and moving Song by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, based on Dowland's famous Flow my tears.

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16.05.26

Sweet stay awhile – Songs around Dowland

Stapleford Granary, Great Shefford

EXAUDI marks the 400th anniversary of the death of John Dowland with a rich programme centred on his lute songs, both in their original guise for solo voice and in his own arrangements for four voices. Alongside these they sing madrigals by his contemporary Thomas Morley, together with present-day responses and reflections on his music, culminating in the dramatic and moving Song by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, based on Dowland's famous Flow my tears.

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06.06.26

RBO/SHIFT

Royal Opera House

EXAUDI collaborates with the Royal Opera's Associate Director Netia Jones as part of a four-day festival exploring the shifting boundary between opera and technology. The focus for the first festival is the ever-growing world of artificial intelligence. What can AI offer creatives? And what can creatives offer the world in the age of AI?

Jennifer Walshe has been at the vanguard of experimental composition and AI for many years, and is a leading voice in the imaginative and provocative conversation between AI and classical music.

Walshe uses AI to imagine an alternative early history of Western music. Dadabots, the duo of CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski, trained their neural network on Walshe’s voice, producing 841 files over 40 generations of training. In A Late Anthology of Early Music, Walshe maps these files – examples of how a machine learning system learned to listen to and replicate her voice – onto key works from the Western music repertoire, the system’s understanding of her voice evolving in tandem with the evolution of a newly-constructed music history. This presentation, in collaboration with vocal ensemble EXAUDI, features new versions of canonical works by composers including Hildegard von Bingen, Adam De La Halle, Perotinus, Machaut, Dunstable, Ockeghem, Dowland, Gesualdo and many more.

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12.06.26 & 13.06.26

Leith: Garland

Bold Tendencies, Peckham, London

EXAUDI returns to Bold Tendencies in Peckham, London to join forces again with GBSR Duo, 12 Ensemble & soprano Patricia Auchterlonie for the revival of Oliver Leith's large-scale work Garland.  Conducted by Naomi Woo & Jack Sheen, Garland is a spectacular procession of sound, music and singing for orchestra and chorus (and horse).

Oliver Leith - Garland

12 Ensemble

GBSR Duo

Soprano - Patricia Auchterlonie

Conductors - Naomi Woo & Jack Sheen

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