The Gentlemen of St John's are considered to be one of the freshest and
most exciting male voiced consorts to have come out of Great Britain in
the last thirty years. Formed by the choral scholars of the world renowned,
Gramophone award winning Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, The
Gents enjoy a remarkably busy schedule of concerts and recordings.
Aged between 18 and 22, these young Cambridge Scholars have a unique and
adaptable blended sound, which lends itself equally well to early ecclesiastical
music as it does to part songs, folksongs and more modern close harmony.
Their ability seamlessly to cope with an enormous repertoire, combined
with a confident yet sensitive style of performing allows The Gents
to please an audience in Church, on the Theatre Stage or even in the Dining
Hall.
In the last year, they have had the honour to sing at dinner for HRH
the Duke of Edinburgh in a function in Cambridge and in a gala fund raising
party in London for HRH Princess Anne. Concert tours have taken the group
all around the world including performances in the Sydney Opera House,
Suntory Hall, Tokyo and London's Wigmore Hall. Their travels in America,
Japan, Italy, Sweden, Eire, Australia, South Africa, Germany, Belgium
and Holland have cemented their international reputation.
There are commercially available CD's, capturing the broadness of repertoire
and wide-ranging shades of vocal colour that The Gents make their
own. Like Take 6 and The King's Singers, The Gents
perform and record many 'home-grown' arrangements. Many members of the
group study music at Cambridge and enjoy writing arrangements of folksongs
and close harmony versions of contemporary pop music as well as creating
personal renditions of some of the classic Jazz standards.
The BBC Music Magazine wrote:
"Offering well-nigh perfect musicality, phrasing and grooming,
the Gents are an immaculately blended, responsive, interactive consort."
Counterpoint Music adds:
"I have heard little vocal music released recently that can touch
the pure tone and controlled excellence of this ensemble."
HRH the Duke of Edinburgh:
"I enjoyed their music very much"
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