The King’s Singers embark on a musical adventure to Asia to celebrate their 50th anniversary season: GOLD. This special tour aims to continue the fresh and diverse music performed by the group over the course of its history.
This musical variety is showcased in the group’s eclectic and customised programme performed throughout their concert tour, including two new anniversary commissions We are and Quintessentially, traditional British and Irish folk ballads Scarborough Fair and Danny Boy, placing choral works such as Ley’s The Prayer of King Henry VI, with popular music songs from the Beatles Ob-La-Di・Ob-La-Da, with works local to the touring countries for example Tien king lok sui and Diu Diu Tang, mixed with choral classics such as All meine Herzgedanken by Brahms.
The four-country tour begins at Korea’s Lotte Concert Hall, Seoul on 16 May before heading over to China to perform in Guangzhou’s Xinghai Concert Hall, (18 May) Shanghai Oriental Art Centre (19 May), and at Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (20 May).
Heading across the sea to Japan, the group perform eight concerts in seven cities. Starting in Kanazawa at Ishikawa Kenritsu Ongakudo on 24 May the group then journey to Kukuoka’s Acros Kukuoka Symphony Hall (26 May), Toyonaka Performing Arts Center in Osaka (27 May), Tokyo’s Musashino Shimin Bunka Kaikan (29 May), and Nihon Tokushu Tougyou Shimin Kaikan in Nagoya (30 May). Taking us into June, the Singers visit MUZA Kawasaki Symphony Hall (1 June), return to Tokyo on 2 June to Opera City, and finish the Japan element of their tour at Kukui’s Harmony Hall on 3 June. The tour concludes in Taiwan on 5 June at National Concert Hall.
HarrisonParrott is delighted to arrange the group’s anniversary concerts in Korea, China and Japan.
