Music in Coventry, 1451-1642
Friday 12th September 2025, 7.30pm, Holy Trinity Church, Coventry
Featuring the Binchois Consort, members of His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts and the Choir of Holy Trinity Church
Join us as we celebrate the end of the Aural Histories: Coventry, 1451-1642 project with an evening of sacred and secular music from two turbulent centuries of English history. The concert will feature anonymous music from the Coventry Leet Book, motets by Hugh Aston and Robert Hunt, metrical psalmody, sacred music by Byrd and Gibbons, secular dances, trumpet fanfares, and audience participation! The concert will last approximately one hour and refreshments will be served afterwards. Attendance is free.
Aural Histories App Launch
Thursday 11th September 2025, 6.00-8.00pm, The School Room, Trinity House, Coventry
The Aural Histories project is developing a smartphone app to deliver audio/visual experiences of music at key moments in history in three of Coventry's historic spaces, St Michael's Parish Church, Holy Trinity Church, and St Mary's Guildhall. The app will be available in beta in September this year. This event is designed to introduce our work to the cultural, leisure, and tourism sectors in Coventry and to engage with interested organisations on maximising the impact of this digital tool.
The event is free to attend, but to manage numbers, please register using this Eventbrite link if you would like to participate:
If you have any questions about this event, please email helen.roberts@bcu.ac.uk.
Midsummer Music for Medieval Coventry
Sunday 23rd June 2024, St Mary's Guildhall and Holy Trinity Church, Coventry
Featuring the Binchois Consort, His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts (plus special guests) and the Choir of Holy Trinity Church.
Come and join us for a full day of musical activities celebrating the important medieval feast of Midsummer's Eve. There will be family-friendly afternoon activities, including 'meet the instruments', in St Mary's Guildhall in the afternoon, a special Choral Evensong in Holy Trinity Church at 5pm, and an evening concert in St Mary's at 7pm.
After the evensong service, our architectural historian Professor Christian Frost of London Metropolitan University, will give a short talk about some of the architectural aspects of our project in the nave of Holy Trinity.
Standard admission to St Mary's Guildhall applies during the afternoon. Free or discounted tickets are available for those with a GOCV card (click here for more information). Choral Evensong is a public act of worship and all are welcome. Tickets for the evening concert are free but need to be reserved in advance for a £1 booking fee. Click here to reserve your evening concert tickets.
Choral Evensong with His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts
Sunday 8th October 2023, 5pm, Holy Trinity Church, Coventry
The first public event of the Aural Histories project takes place on Sunday 8th October 2023. Members of His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts, one of our associated ensembles, will join the choir of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, in a choral evensong celebrating the music of English renaissance composers William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes, both of whom died 400 years ago this year. Holy Trinity Church is an important research partner in our work and we will be performing music that might have been heard here in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries with some of the historical instruments that were common in town and cities around England at this time.
This is public act of worship and all are welcome. After the service, there will be an opportunity for members of the community in Coventry to hear more about our project in a short informal talk.
