Georgina Sear

Georgina Sear

Music for the festive season

The days are rushing by and before we know it, it will be Christmas!   December is always a busy month for Fiori.  Behind the scenes at Fiori HQ we are very busy finalising our plans for 2026 – all to…

Music for St Cecilia

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The clocks have changed.  The seasons change.  And Fiori are gearing up for our winter season.  To kick things off we have a concert on 22 November – St Cecilia’s Day.

A summer to remember! 

What a summer Fiori has had!  – culminating in Haydn’s splendid Maria Theresa Mass in Fotheringhay on 10 August.  There was a real end of term feeling for this triumpant performance as choir, soloists and a superb orchestra of strings,…

UP THE GARDEN PATH

2 fabulous concerts in the offing this July. Coton Manor Gardens continues our ‘garden’ theme – with an exciting programme of Moravian baroque music entitled Trumpet in the Garden at 4.30pm on Sunday 13 July. A chance to visit these wonderful Northamptonshire gardens…

Maytime

When all the Birds have Mattens seyd,And sung their thankful Hymnes: ’tis sin,Nay, profanation to keep in…Rise; and put on your Foliage, and be seene To come forth, like the Spring-time, fresh and greene;  Robert Herrick So wrote the 17th-century poet…

EASTER

‘April is the cruellest month’ wrote TS Eliot ‘breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.’ Early April saw our sellout concert of Hildegard and the Billingsgate Trumpet  (a fascinating deep dive into medieval music…

Spring arrives!

‘Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;….. And ever again, in the wink of an eye, Painted stations whistle by.’ (Robert Louis Stevenson 1885).  And so it was as Fiori’s director (on a recent adventure aboard one of those smartly efficient German…

Hildegard and the Billingsgate  trumpet!

So what’s next in the Fiori concert programme?  Well, here at Fiori HQ we are putting the finishing touches to our forthcoming summer series.  But before the summer series gets going, there’s some rather different to look forward to, as…