The Marian Consort to launch Seeing through Sound, a new visual music project, at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum

We’re very excited to share news that The Marian Consort will launch a major new visual music project at the V&A Museum in London. Seeing through Sound combines live music and projected visuals to reveal how Renaissance art is full of sound. The project, developed with Professor Tim Shephard (Professor of Musicology at the University of Sheffield), leads on from a major research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, which resulted in the publication of a book, 'Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy c.1420-1540'.

The programme reunites music and art that have been apart for over five hundred years, featuring works by Josquin des Prez, Guillaume Dufay, John Dunstaple and Barbara Monk Feldman, and art by Gentile da Fabriano, Taddeo Crivelli, and Luca della Robbia.

A new pieces of music has been specially commissioned for this project. Canadian composer Barbara Monk Feldman has written ‘Watchman’, a work inspired by ‘The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin’ by Fra Angelico, housed in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. During The Marian Consort’s recent US tour, singers were joined by Professor Tim Shephard to view the work in situ, and took part in a workshop with Barbara Monk Feldman.

The launch concert will take place at the V&A Museum as part of its annual Performance Festival on Friday 19 April. A pre-concert talk will be delivered by Professor Tim Shephard.

This project has been made possible with funding from the University of Sheffield.

Click here to find out more about Seeing through Sound

Click here to buy tickets to the launch performance at the V&A Museum