In this video Hannah Nepilova talks to Suzi Digby, artistic director of ORA singers, ahead of their performance at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall at 8pm tomorrow evening (September 16th), in which they perform Thomas Tallis’s Spem in Alium, along with the the world premiere of Vidi aquam, a specially commissioned choral work by Sir James MacMillan, Ave verum corpus by William Byrd (who was Tallis’ student and later colleague) and Ave verum corpus re-imagined by Roderick Williams. The performance will be livestreamed on Tate’s YouTube and Facebook channels.
This is the second in a series of video interviews with artists putting on unusual performances throughout the COVID-19 crisis