Matthew Coleridge is one of the most exciting new voices in UK choral music. His music is widely performed around the world, with recent highlights including concert performances at Uppsala Cathedral (Sweden), Sagrada Familia (Barcelona), Wells Cathedral (England), St Giles' Cathedral Edinburgh (Scotland) and Bergen Cathedral (Norway).
He is in increasing demand as a guest-conductor of his own music, helping to bring the absolute best out of singers with his relaxed and good-humoured approach to music making.
In 2027 he will make his US conducting debut at Carnegie Hall, New York.
Frances Faux is one of the leading choral conductors in the south west, and the musical director and founder of Bath choirs Lucis and Noctis. A former chorister at Westminster Cathedral,Francis served for nearly a decade as Artistic Director of the principal chorus and chamber choir at Bath Spa University. During this time, he inspired a generation of young singers and musicians and continues to work there as an associate lecturer and vocal coach.
An award-winning composer for film, video games, and the concert hall, Francis has collaborated with filmmaker Jevan Chowdhury on several shorts for his ambitious 12 Films in 12 Months project. His song We Are Every Child - commissioned for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with Jamila Gavin MBE - was recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios and has been performed internationally, most recently by the National Children’s Choir of Great Britain, and Partnerschools in Houston, Texas.
Recent commissions have included Living in the 21st Century for the Exeter Cathedral Chorister Outreach Programme, There is No Rose for Prior Park College (Banks Music), and an arrangement of O Tannenbaum, premiered at Bath Abbey by mezzo-soprano Molly Soo and the Bristol Ensemble. His suite for solo clarinet, Tales of the Mabinogion (Clifton Edition), draws on the legends of Welsh mythology and was written for Emma Davies.directs the chamber choir Lux Aeterna, who will be singing with us for the weekend.
