Vox Urbane & Shiva Feshareki

27th November 2024

Join us for the climax of Vox Urbane’s Inaugural London Season: Responses. A series of three curated concerts which reflect upon past musical traditions and offer a new vision of what classical choral music can be, who it is for, and who it can represent.

Responses III features the world premiere of ‘Geometry of Echoes’ by multi-award winning composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki: A new piece for Live Spatial Turntablism and Choir that encapsulates a one-off moment in space and time, written especially for Vox Urbane and Feshareki to perform within the acoustics of St John at Hackney.

Based on medieval tuning systems, ‘Geometry of Echoes’  acts as a partner piece to ‘Lamentations’ by the 16th Century London-born choral composer Robert White. Both works focus on the spirituality of sound and respond to the atmosphere.

Vox Urbane’s sell-out launch concert took place in 2023 at the Asylum Chapel, Peckham. It was hailed by Musical America as “an auspicious launch for an important and accomplished new voice on the choral scene” and received a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review from The Guardian who said that the group “impresses and inspires” with “a different, diverse perspective”.

Shiva Feshareki’s music has been described as “Restless and inventive, beautiful and bewitching.” (The Observer), and “works that collapse time and genre, morphing lush melodies into electrified echoes to showcase how electronics can transform acoustic instrumentations into unexpected sounds.” (The Quietus)