Musical and theatrical Charity Fundraising Event

Award-winning early music group the Orlando Consort will perform in Hertfordshire alongside a charity production of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral.

The Orlando Consort’s work has been described as ‘staggeringly beautiful’ by The Times, and ‘Simultaneously ravishing and reverential’ by the Los Angeles Times.

The one-off event will take place at St Nicholas Church, Great Munden, Herts on Saturday 15 March 2014 from 7.30pm, and is organised by Wren Theatre Productions.

Murder in the Cathedral features a cast of professional and amateur actors from Hertfordshire and around the UK. Tickets are on sale now in aid of Courtyard Arts Centre and Add-vance.

The event is generously sponsored by Eversleigh Property and Investment Company and Austin’s Funeral Directors. With additional thanks to Howard Guard.

Tickets available now on Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/1ddmvHV

The Orlando Consort is based in the UK but performs internationally, with over 30 world premières to date. The Consort’s performance of 12th and 13th century French music at the Boston Early Music Festival was elected ‘Early Music Performance of the Year’ by The Boston Globe. Other recent highlights include their debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Their extensive discography for labels including Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi USA and Hyperion includes two Gramophone Magazine Early Music Award -winning CDs, and they were shortlisted for a BBC Music Magazine Award for their recording of Machaut’s ‘Messe de Notre Dame’, and ‘Scattered Rhymes’, a new work by British composer Tarik O’Regan. In partnership with the Radcliffe Trust, they currently hold residencies at Nottingham, Bangor and Durham Universities.

Wren Theatre Productions was founded in 2008 as a not-for-profit performing arts company, and is based in Hertfordshire. Murder in the Cathedral will include appearances by writer and former Watchdog presenter Charlotte Hudson, Hollyoaks actor Paul Danan, as well as the first appearance in non-music drama for baritones James McCoran Campbell and Alex Anderson Hall.

For more information visit http://www.courtyardarts.org.uk/