The Ulster Consort

Tickets are selling quickly for @ulsterconsort’s Vivaldi Four Seasons with Julia Bishop (@RedPriest4), rarely performed in Northern Ireland with period instruments, & Stabat Mater with @LauraLamph. Sat 28 Mar, 8pm in St Colmcille’s Holywood. Tickets via eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-four-sea…

Concert 1 of @ulsterconsort’s Season 2026 is on Sat 17 Jan, 7pm at St Colmcille’s, East Belfast: Britten's Ceremony of Carols, and gems by Rubbra, Hadley, Poston, @howardskempton1 and 2 world premieres. Full details below and via this link: eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-little-…

Lovely to welcome my good friend (and fan of @ulsterconsort!), Janice Eichner to @wabbey for the Services of Lessons and Carols today; beautifully sung by @WAbbeyChoir. #Christmas #christmas2025 #westminsterabbey

Many thanks to @StThomasChoirNY & @richardjtanner at @SaintThomasNYC for performing my setting of ‘The holly and the ivy’ (@OUPMusic) in their Nine Lessons and Carols service yesterday (and for repeating it on Christmas Eve). Looking forward to listening! youtube.com/live/-xhkNxBty…

Short of a special Christmas present? Click on the following link to give the gift of music - one of the @ulsterconsort’s Season 2026 concerts; a glorious mix of music from Palestrina to the present day. Please join us if you can! yumpu.com/en/document/vi…

The @ulsterconsort and I had our final performance of 2025 in Hillsborough, in support of @HoratiosGarden, one of two charities we’ve been delighted to work with since 2023 (the other being @bowelcanceruk). Lovely to see Kathy Clugston of @BBCRadio4’s Gardeners’ Question Time!

In the 2nd of two concerts this week, @ulsterconsort and I performed at @TitanicHotelBel in an annual concert for invited guests, including a 2nd performance of a new arrangement by USA composer, Gary Davison. Great to see @utv’s Pamela Ballantine MBE for the 2nd night in a row!

The @ulsterconsort and I were thrilled to perform in the @UlsterHall on Tuesday, in a sold out concert in support of @bowelcanceruk. Compères for the evening were @utv’s Pamela Ballantine MBE and Eugene O'Hagan MBE, of @thepriests, and 110 singing children! Photos: @neilhphoto

The @ulsterconsort’s Ulster Hall Concert, on Tue 9 Dec for @bowelcanceruk is SOLD OUT! If you were hoping to attend, do not despair - we are also performing in support of @HoratiosGarden on Thu 11 Dec at 6.30pm in Hillsborough. Only a few seats left! eventbrite.co.uk/e/horatios-gar…

Hear soloist Ben McAteer in @ulsterconsort & Players performance of Handel’s Messiah, on Fri 28 Nov (@BallymenaParish) and Sat 29 Nov (@HolywoodParish). Tickets available via Eventbrite:eventbrite.co.uk/e/messiah-ball… eventbrite.co.uk/e/messiah-holy… #handel #handelsmessiah #Messiah

A Scottish independent school with a long history of royal alumni has appointed a world-renowned conductor, composer and organist to lead its music department 👇

Happy Birthday, @DianaBurrell48! It was such a pleasure for @ulsterconsort and me to work with you on your fabulous new opera, earlier this year. Hope you’re having a lovely day! @UnitedMusicPbl

I’m looking forward to our HIP (historically informed performance) Handel Messiahs with @ulsterconsort & Players (on period instruments) on 28 & 29 Nov. Ballymena: eventbrite.co.uk/e/messiah-ball… Holywood: eventbrite.co.uk/e/messiah-belf… Join us if you can (and the churches are warm!)

Exciting: @ulsterconsort and I will give the world premiere of TEN new pieces on Sat 4 Oct, from 6pm, at St Molua’s Church, Belfast - incl. @bobchilcott, @CowieEdward, @cherylhoad/@WiseMusicGroup, @EdwardGregson1, @johnmrutter/@OUPMusic Tickets/details:eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-sounds-t…

Dear friends and colleagues, I am thrilled to announce that I have recently been appointed Artistic Director at @gordonstoun, one of the UK’s leading co-educational, independent schools, located in beautiful Morayshire. This is a really exciting opportunity… [continued]

NI singers and musicians are warmly invited to the @ulsterconsort Choral Workshop on Sat 13 Sep to learn and perform Haydn’s fantastic “Nelson Mass”- one of the greatest choral works of the late 18th century. It takes place at @stranbelfast. Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/choral-works…

The @ulsterconsort Foundation and I are thrilled to have a message from one of the world’s greatest and most popular composers, @johnmrutter for the children of our Summer School at @stranbelfast ahead of their concert, on 15 August [continued…]

@Paul_McCreesh @MatthewOwensUK @johnmrutter @stranbelfast 😆😆😆

@MatthewOwensUK @ulsterconsort @johnmrutter @stranbelfast And news of the burping competition has reached UK! Hope you're having fun!

Day 3 of @ulsterconsort Children’s Summer School: the children are doing brilliantly at memorising @johnmrutter’s setting of ‘The Reluctant Dragon’. They’re also really enjoying the lovely food at @stranbelfast - thanks to the wonderful catering staff for feeding us so well!

Day two of @ulsterconsort Foundation’s Children’s Singing Summer School at @stranbelfast: lots more @johnmrutter, dragon craft, outdoor games, and impressions of playing the violin - all great fun. Well done to all the children and huge thanks to all our amazing staff!