Cathedral Holy Week Highlight One of the highlights of Holy Week at St David's Cathedral will be Cantorion Tyddewi/St David's singers annual Passiontide Concert on Wednesday April 8th when Joseph Haydn's 'Stabat Mater' and Welsh composer Karl Jenkins 'The Armed Man' (Choral suite) will be performed.
Stabat Mater was composed in 1767 for the Austrian Prince Esterhazy while The Armed Man, a Mass for Peace, was composed for the Millennium and dedicated to the victims of Kosovo.
The choir, conducted by Brian lavender, who conducts and sings in a number of Pembrokeshire choirs, features two young local soloists, soprano Stephanie Smith, who attended Sir Thomas Picton School and is now studying in London and contralto Natalie Gunner, a former pupil of Tasker Milward, now a choral scholar at Merton College, Oxford.
The new Dean of St David's, The Very Rev Jonathan Lean, is the tenor soloist and Meic Morgan bass soloist, while the accompanist is The Rev Andrew Davies, rector of Tenby and Organ Scholar of Jesus College, Oxford.
Tickets at £8 for adults, children free, are available from St David's Bookshop (01437 720480) or at the Cathedral door. Concert starts 7.30pm.
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