Pre-concert talk 6.15-7.00pm (free to ticket holders) “Music and Spirituality”: Q & A with Susannah Self, composer, in discussion Renée Claire, chair of the Cambridge Jungian Circle.

Directed by Dr Susannah Self, North Sea Voices and Orchestra are joined by top chamber choir Ely Collegium, and will give the first official performance of this impressive new work. They previously premièred Dr Self’s other major choral works Sea Requiem (2023), Stabat Mater (2024) and Magnificat (2025). The first was given a glowing review by Paul Conway in Musical Opinion: 

“Sea Requiem was a substantial score, yet the material flowed naturally... the extended silence which followed this conclusion.... was a tribute to the audience’s rapt concentration and the cumulative effect of Susannah Self’s fervent, directly expressive music.“         -Paul Conway, Musical Opinion 2023 

Susannah Self is developing a growing reputation for her large-scale choral works, to which audiences are responding with enthusiasm. Graduating from the Royal College of Music in voice and composition, she spent 25 years as a successful opera singer, mainly on the Continent, before deciding to devote herself primarily to composition. She gained degrees in Cambridge and Birmingham, and now conducts five choirs in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. Her output includes a wide range of chamber music, operas, symphonies and choral works. She is published in Vienna by Universal Edition and in the UK by Composers Edition.

More About Selfmade Music

Founded in 1992, Selfmade Music is a non-profit artist-led arts organisation creating, devising and promoting voice-related performances, courses and events in the U.K. It is based in North Norfolk and Ely. North Sea Voices and Orchestra is Selfmade’s vehicle for larger-scale music events in the U.K.