Following the acclaimed release of Alastair White’s ‘fashion-operas’ ROBE and WOAD, the Divine Art team is delighted to announce the forthcoming release of RUNE, in collaboration with UU Studios and designer house Ka Wa Key. RUNE is the third in the series of recordings (and actually the fourth of White’s operas including WEAR, still to […]

We are saddened to hear of the death of Australian composer Michael Bertram recently at the age of 86. His funeral is to be held at St Peter’s Church, Eastern Hill, Melbourne, where he was a valued member of the congregation, at 2 pm on Friday, November 5 to which all are welcome. Michael Bertram’s Music […]

The continuing torrent of new releases from Divine Art and its sister labels continues, after the many postponements in 2020 and early 2021 due to Covid restrictions. The label will be releasing in spring 2022 a new album of piano works entitled ‘Visions and Ventures’ – not as might be supposed avant-garde works but a […]

Métier’s series of recordings featuring the superb music of Edward Cowie continues with the release of his ’24 Preludes for Piano’ in early spring of 2022. This album was originally issued by UHR (the short-lived label of the University of Hertfordshire) in 2008.  Stephen Sutton, CEO of the Divine Art group, expressed his delight: “we’ve been in discussions […]

British composer Robert Saxton will feature in a new album of his works to be released by Métier, the new-music label of the Divine Art Group, in the summer of 2022. The four works on the recording were written between 2013 and 2019. They represent a continuing journey addressing a modal/harmonic goal-orientated narrative. The earliest, Time and the […]

British pianist Peter Seivewright is this month (October 2021) recording a significant new album for Divine Art, the label to which he has been signed since the mid-1990s. The album is focused on the premiere recording of the 1976 Vietnam Sonata by Cornelius Cardew, and also includes recent compositions by two of Cardew’s comrades in music: Michael Chant and Hugh […]

Divine Art Recordings Group is delighted that the distinguished English composer Bernard Hughes (b. 1974) has joined the label for an album of his complete (so far) output of works for solo piano. The composer describes the works as “an eclectic collection” which covers a period of over 25 years. The oldest piece dates back to […]

Violinist Aisha Syed Castro may well be one of the most remarkably gifted musicians to come from the Dominican Republic and the team at Divine Art are tremendously excited to have signed this young virtuoso for an album of works with American and Latin roots. Aisha (born 1989) began to study violin at the age of four, […]

Congratulations to Orlando Jacinto García on his 2021 Latin GRAMMY® nomination for Best Classical Contemporary Composition! His nominated work is his String Quartet No. 2, “Cuatro” performed by the Amernet String Quartet on our Métier release of his String Quartets Nos. 1 – 3. See the full list of nominees here, and make sure to […]

Divine Art has announced the signing of the exceptionally talented Russian cellist Marina Tarasova for a recording of the Suites for Solo Cello by J.S. Bach. Marina Tarasova is an acclaimed Russian cellist, the winner of international competitions in Prague, Florence, and Paris, she was awarded the laureate of the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow, and is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. […]

The latest signing among 20 new artists joining the Divine Art Recordings roster this year is the brilliant, radical, and forward-looking Chinese pianist Jenny Q Chai, whose new recording of Schumann, Bach and Ives is scheduled for release in February. Described as ‘an artist of singular vision’ Jenny Q Chai is widely renowned for her […]

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January 2022 will see the release of a mini-album (31 minutes duration, longer than an ‘EP’) on the mid-priced Diversions label, containing five arias from operas by British composer James Cook. The album showcases items from the operas Jane the Quene (2014) and Abishag (2019). The former relates the tale of Lady Jane Grey, the tragic […]

We are thrilled to announce that Métier artist Chris Gekker has won 2nd Place in the prestigious American Prize in the 2021 Instrumental Performance division! From The American Prize Announcement: Chris Gekker is Professor of Trumpet at the University of Maryland School of Music. He appears as soloist on more than thirty recordings and on […]

Divine Art is delighted to announce two new albums from clarinettist Helen Habershon with pianist John Lenehan, both due for release in the first quarter of 2022. Found in Dreams For Found in Dreams, Helen has once again collaborated with John Lenehan and they offer a wonderfully diverse collection of repertoire. This includes beautiful arrangements […]

Stephen Wilkinson, the eminent British choral conductor, composer, BBC producer, and energetic friend of countless British composers, died on 10th August at the age of 102. Those who knew him well thought of him as well-nigh immortal, as indeed his musical legacy should certainly be. He must surely be the most distinguished and highly regarded […]

Zoe Samsarelou is a well-known Greek pianist and currently a Professor at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki. She is also the Artistic Director of the International Pelion Festival. She studied the piano in Greece and Germany (Berlin and Hamburg). Having also studied archaeology and then pursuing a career as a pianist, she has been closely […]

On 17th August 2021 at the Round Chapel, in London, Alastair White’s RUNE fashion-opera will receive it’s world premiere performance as part of the Tête à Tête Festival. There will also be an interactive broadcast of the show on 17th September. Learn more and purchase tickets at tete-a-tete.org.uk Re-opening theatre doors with a grand fashion-opera […]

Opera Today has published a fantastic new piece looking at Gráinne Mulvey’s Great Women work for voice and electronics, recorded by soprano Elizabeth Hilliard. The article looks at the women whose words are heard as part of the piece, and breaks down the new recording: Elizabeth Hilliard’s performance is a veritable tour de force of vocal sound, […]

British composer and arranger Robin White is the latest addition to the roster at Divine Art Edition, the music publishing arm devoted to works recorded for the Divine Art group of record labels. The first three works to be published in the autumn will be White’s Russian Suite for Clarinet and Orchestra, based on traditional and folk themes,  and […]