Toward the Unknown Region: PCU with Medici Choir at St Mary's Church, Portsmouth on Saturday 22nd November 2025

Toward the Unknown Region

PCU with Medici Choir

Add to my Calendar 22-11-2025 19:30 22-11-2025 21:30 36 Toward the Unknown Region James Gilchrist began his working life as a doctor, turning to a full-time career in music in 1996. He joined the local church choir at the age of eight, and sang as a boy treble in the choir of New College, Oxford, and as a tenor in that of King’s College, Cambridge.While studying and working in medicine, James sang in groups such as The Sixteen, The Tallis Scholars and The Cardinall’s Musick, alongside appearing regularly in choral societies up and down the United Kingdom as tenor soloist. When his diary became rather full of solo engagements, he took a month off his medical job and dipped his toes into the world of the full-time professional musician. A month soon became ten years, and despite missing many aspects of medicine, he has no regrets.James has appeared at the BBC Proms with the Academy of Ancient Music and the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, and has performed with many leading orchestras and ensembles Pavlos Carvalho has been a prize-winner in international music competitions in England, Italy (Carlo Soliva competition) Germany (Koblenz international chamber music competition) and Russia (Taneev competition). He has performed as a solo and chamber musician in venues such as the Purcell room, Royal Albert Hall, Cadogan Hall and the Teatro dal Verme, Milan and recorded for the BBC. Pavlos is one of the founding members and Artistic director of Ensemble Reza and as such is also involved in many outreach and community projects. His involvement in outreach work has seen him collaborate with projects such as Music for Life, In Harmony, Pied Piper and Live Music Now.He has a deep interest in world music and is a founding member and director of the Rebetiko Carnival, a charity and festival dedicated to the music of Greece and Asia minor. St Mary's Church, Portsmouth DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Mary's Church
Fratton Road
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO1 5PA
England

Saturday 22nd November 2025
7:30 PM

Tickets

Prices: Adults: £20, Child/ Student: £2.50
Booking line: 07882518844
Book Tickets

Programme

Gerald Finzi – Intimations of Immortality, Op.29
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Toward the Unknown region
Edward Elgar – Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85

Performers

James Gilchrist – Baritone / Tenor
Pavlos Carvalho – Cello
David Gostick – Conductor

Southern Pro Musica
Medici Choir

Programme Note

James Gilchrist began his working life as a doctor, turning to a full-time career in music in 1996. He joined the local church choir at the age of eight, and sang as a boy treble in the choir of New College, Oxford, and as a tenor in that of King’s College, Cambridge.
While studying and working in medicine, James sang in groups such as The Sixteen, The Tallis Scholars and The Cardinall’s Musick, alongside appearing regularly in choral societies up and down the United Kingdom as tenor soloist. When his diary became rather full of solo engagements, he took a month off his medical job and dipped his toes into the world of the full-time professional musician. A month soon became ten years, and despite missing many aspects of medicine, he has no regrets.
James has appeared at the BBC Proms with the Academy of Ancient Music and the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, and has performed with many leading orchestras and ensembles

Pavlos Carvalho has been a prize-winner in international music competitions in England, Italy (Carlo Soliva competition) Germany (Koblenz international chamber music competition) and Russia (Taneev competition). He has performed as a solo and chamber musician in venues such as the Purcell room, Royal Albert Hall, Cadogan Hall and the Teatro dal Verme, Milan and recorded for the BBC. Pavlos is one of the founding members and Artistic director of Ensemble Reza and as such is also involved in many outreach and community projects. His involvement in outreach work has seen him collaborate with projects such as Music for Life, In Harmony, Pied Piper and Live Music Now.
He has a deep interest in world music and is a founding member and director of the Rebetiko Carnival, a charity and festival dedicated to the music of Greece and Asia minor.

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