Wedding - Battle Abbey

I performed ‘Eternal source of light divine’ from Handel’s Birthday Ode for Queen Anne and ‘Let the bright Seraphim’ from Samson at a wedding held on Friday 12 July 2024 in the Great Hall of Battle Abbey in East Sussex—an abbey dedicated to St Martin of Tours and built on the site of the Battle of Hastings. I performed with Verity Wingate (soprano), Kristiina Watts (theorbo), Miriam Nohl (baroque cello) and Iwan Teifion Davies (organ). Hedvig Haugerud (soprano) also sang in Monteverdi's 'Pur ti miro' from L'incoronazione di Poppea as the register was signed.

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While in East Sussex, I took the opportunity to visit my old friend and colleague Crispian Steele-Perkins in nearby Cooden, before travelling to north Yorkshire to collect some silver trumpets I bought at auction.

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