Musical directing
Magdalena Consort:
Last year Peter Harvey founded the 'Magdalena Consort', which focuses on the vocal works of J.S. Bach. There has been much debate about the issue of singing Bach with solo voices throughout (but with multiple strings - so not simply 'small-scale'), but very few performances in the grand scheme of things. This group will spend some of its time redressing the balance, literally and metaphorically. So far, the group has past and future concerts in Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Arnstadt in Germany, Sopron in Hungary, the Cheltenham Festival, the Istanbul Festival and a tour of the Far East, in various Bach programmes and Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 (Cheltenham Festival 2010, in Tewkesbury Abbey).
For more information please visit www.magdalenaconsort.com.
London Bach Society:
Peter recently directed a performance of 'Jesu, meine Freude' to mark the 200th anniversary of the first performance in Britain of a choral piece by Bach. That performance took place in London's Hanover Square Rooms on June 3rd, 1809, when 'Jesu, meine Freude' (in a Latin translation) was conducted by Samuel Wesley. This anniversary concert took place in St. Bartholomew-the-Great, as part of the London Bach Festival's 'Bachfest 09'.Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir:
In November 2009 Peter conducted the Woclaw Philharmonic Choir in an all-British programme of choral works by Henry Purcell and the contemporary Scottish composer James MacMillan.