Founded and directed by Freddie Crowley, Corvus Consort is a vocal ensemble based in the UK, comprising some of the country’s most talented young professional singers, one critic describing it as ‘one of the most innovative and adventurous vocal ensembles presently performing’. Its refreshing combination of musical excellence, passionate performance, and unstuffy presentation makes the group hugely popular with audiences up and down the country. Operating with a flexible combination of voices, the Consort performs in a wide variety of genres and styles, reaching from the Renaissance to the present day, and enjoys a range of instrumental collaborations, notably with Music on the Edge and the Ferio Saxophone Quartet with whom, in 2022, it released Revoiced, its début album on Chandos Records.

The ensemble has quickly developed a strong track record for championing new music. For Christmas 2020, it commissioned twelve young composers to write miniature carols for a choir of twelve voices, based on the well-known song ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’, as part of a festive project entitled ‘Twelve Composers Composing’. Its latest new music project, ‘Byrd Takes Flight’, in collaboration with Music on the Edge, commemorated the 400th anniversary of William Byrd in 2023 with four new works for voices and instruments, placing Byrd’s compositional voice into direct dialogue with some of today’s brightest artistic voices. It was premièred at the 2023 Whiddon Autumn Festival and featured in a series of concerts in 2024, including the ensemble’s début at the Three Choirs Festival.

Since making its first appearance, in 2018, Corvus Consort has enjoyed performances in venues such as King’s Place, London, Chiltern Arts Festival, Church Stretton Arts Festival, Little Missenden Festival, King’s Lynn Festival, and Music on the Quantocks, and has served as Ensemble-in-Residence at the Whiddon Autumn Festival, in Devon, since the festival’s inception, in 2021. Recent highlights include a Bach programme alongside the violinist Rachel Podger at Dorchester Arts and Exeter Cathedral, a performance with the Ferio Saxophone Quartet at the Stour Music Festival, and a return to Exeter Cathedral to perform Rachmaninoff’s All-night Vigil.