On Wednesday the 26th of Saturday at a concert at St Johns Smith Square, the venue that is both a church & not a church, the great soprano Dame Emma Kirkby was a presented with the Queens medal for music, not in fact by the Queen but Peter Maxwell Davies the Master of the Queens Medal who instigated the medal in 2005. Various musicians including Bryn Terfel & Judith Weir have won in previous years. But Emma Kirkby is easily the most distinguished. I don’t suppose many even knew it existed before but probably they will now.
It was also Roy Goodman’s 60th birthday. He first became well known because of high voice soaring above the others in Miserere’s Allegri. But he has come a long way since then. His ensemble the Brandenburg Consort performed a programme of Haydn & Telemann (no Bach mores the pity) These are the photos from the event.
