Vasari Singers

Vasari Singers is one of the UK's leading chamber choirs, led from its founding by Jeremy Backhouse.[1] Vasari performs regularly in most of London’s major concert venues and taken part in numerous commercial concerts and festivals, including the BBC Proms[2] and the choir has appeared on BBC Radio 3[3] The choir is acclaimed for its versatility, performing choral music from a wide range of styles and eras, from the Renaissance to contemporary. As well as concerts, taking part in choral evensong is a major feature of Vasari’s schedule. The choir sings regularly in Canterbury Cathedral other main English Cathedrals, with recent visits to Gloucester Cathedral, Liverpool Cathedral and Ripon Cathedral.[4] New music is central to the choir’s activities, and since 2000 has commissioned over 20 works from British composers. In 2005 Vasari celebrated its 25th anniversary with 10 new commissions, a recording of these and other 21st-century anthems and a world première concert at St John’s, Smith Square.[5]

In November 2008, the group commissioned and premièred a new a capella Requiem by the British Composer Gabriel Jackson.[6] which they later recorded.[7]

Naxos Records have now released five Vasari Singers albums, two of which have achieved top ten status in the Specialist Classical Charts.[8]