Chorister royalty comes to Cork

GOOD news for fans of the King’s Singers; the legendary group are returning to Ireland with their blend of cadence and colour, and their irresistible good-fellowship.

It was 1968 that a group of choral scholars at King’s College Cambridge first got together. The current line-up is: David Hurley (joined 1990), Christopher Gabbitas (2004), Tim Wayne-Wright (2009), Jonathan Howard (2010), Christopher Bruerton (2012) and Julian Gregory (2014).

Howard, who sings bass, says he couldn’t believe his luck when the senior member of the group, David Hurley, contacted him. “I’m the only one who hadn’t been a chorister from childhood, and so I didn’t have that habit of daily attendance, evensong, all that,” he explains.