Oil Fountain Fitzhardinge Consort Choir Concert

A night celebrating the environment and eco-activism through art! Music and sculpture come together for a themed evening delving into our world, the fragile ecosystem, the future of our planet, and our connection with nature.

Join The Fitzhardinge Consort for a night of spectacular music curated exclusively to accompany the Oil Fountain artwork being displayed in Bristol Cathedral.

Espensen Spirit will be making bespoke nature-themed cocktails before the concert and during the interval.

Everyone will have the chance to see the Oil Fountain before and after the concert, plus during the interval. The Oil Fountain has been featured by BBC News, ITV, The Telegraph and more.

The Fitzhardinge Consort choir sings regularly across the region to great critical acclaim and has quickly become known for its exciting and original interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, as well as new works of living composers.

Alongside classics including three pieces from Haydn’s Creation (The Heavens are Telling the Glory of God, Awake the Harp and Sing the Lord ye voices all), Cipriano de Rore’s Descendi in hortum meum and John Ireland’s The Hills, enjoy a new composition by Pierre Jones, a talented A Level student from Bristol Cathedral Choir School, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence.

What to expect:

  • Live choir music from the critically acclaimed Fitzhardinge Consort choir
  • See the Oil Fountain installation

About The Fitzhardinge Consort:

The Fitzhardinge Consort brings international-standard, rarely-performed choral music to the South West of England and beyond. Current members have sung with the Tallis Scholars, the choirs of St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, and in lead roles on the stages of Covent Garden and Glyndebourne.

Blue Badge Parking at the Cathedral is limited. To reserve your space please contact VisitorExperience@Bristol-Cathedral.co.uk

Age restrictions: 0+

General admission From £25
Friends of Bristol Cathedral From £22.50
Nave Front
General admission (per person)
£25
Friends of Bristol Cathedral (per member)
£22.50
Nave Middle
General admission (per person)
£25
Friends of Bristol Cathedral (per member)
£22.50

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How to get there

Facilities

  • Toilets
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Refreshments available

On the day

  • Bristol Cathedral is a 4 min walk from Bristol City Centre. Any buses which stop near the fountains, will get you close to the Cathedral
  • The nearest public car parks are Millennium Square Car Park (4-min walk), College Street Car Park (2-min walk, 4 hour max stay), and Trenchard Street Car Park (6-min walk)

  • The entrance and Nave of Bristol Cathedral is step-free

  • Please use the handrails provided in the cloister

  • A hearing loop is available inside the Cathedral Nave

Changes happen, don't worry

How to change dates
Change of plans? You can easily rebook the next available slot up to 1 days before your experience.
How to get a refund
Can't make it? We understand things happen! You can cancel and get a full refund up to 1 days before your experience.
Please note that this refund policy does not apply to gift bookings. You may reschedule your gift if outside the time period stated above. However, all gifts are non-refundable and expire exactly 1 year after the date of purchase.

You'll be hosted by

Peter Wagstaff (He/Him)

Peter Wagstaff has been the Director of The Fitzhardinge Consort since 2014, and is a singer and conductor across England and Wales.

Recent and substantial additions to the Fitzhardinge choir's repertoire under Peter’s direction have included the virtuosic motets of J. S. Bach and Dieterich Buxtehude’s epic cantata cycle for Passiontide, Membra Jesu Nostri, as well as such towers of the choral repertoire as John Sheppard’s Media Vita and James MacMillan’s Miserere.

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