Credit: The Art of Music
Luxembourg-based vocal ensemble, The Art of Music, has announced a concert showcasing “More Hidden Gems of the Renaissance”, featuring organ music from the Renaissance, the Baroque and modern times, on Sunday 19 October 2025 at 17:00 at Walferdange Church (Trinity Church).
The Art of Music has teamed up with British organist Mark Brafield for this concert, performed under the direction of a tenor and director, Mick Swithinbank. Other performers will include Jennifer Schofield and Magdalena Mateńko (sopranos), Marita Thomas (alto), Vincent Soubeyran (baritone) and Achim Holz and James Verity (basses).
The programme will feature rediscovered Renaissance works by composers such as Andreas de Silva, Thomas Crecquillon, Giulio Osculati, Claudin de Sermisy, Costanzo Porta and Sulpitia Cesis, as well as plainchant and organ pieces by Girolamo Frescobaldi, Dietrich Buxtehude and Toon Hagen.
Attendees are invited to make a donation to Tricentenaire asbl when leaving the church.
British organist Mark Brafield is a graduate of Trinity College, Oxford, where he studied with Robert Munns, Stephen Farr, David Sanger and Dame Gillian Weir. A Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, he combines his legal career with regular performances at major venues including King’s College Cambridge, St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, St Thomas’s Fifth Avenue in New York and Notre Dame de Paris. This will be his first visit to Luxembourg and the Walferdange concert follows an organ recital at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Luxembourg City the previous day.
The Art of Music was founded in Luxembourg in 1993 and takes its name from a Scottish treatise on music theory written in the late sixteenth century. The ensemble is dedicated to reviving Renaissance and medieval vocal music that has fallen into oblivion.
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