Ep. 13: Clare Stewart

*All podcasts formerly on SoundCloud have now been redirected to Anchor.* The new album from the international, award-winning British vocal ensemble Apollo5 is released today! Here's an interview with Clare Stewart from the quintet, in which we discuss the album, Apollo5's extensive educational and outreach work, Clare's insights as a singer, and into the rehearsal and performance process of a world-class a capella vocal group. Special thanks to: George Percy at WildKat PR for arranging and coming to the interview, and Clare for talking to me! Published on 31 May 2019. Interview recorded on 13 May 2019 at the Gresham Centre, St Anne and St Agnes Church, London. The British vocal ensemble Apollo5 delights audiences with versatile and engaging performances, singing repertoire ranging from renaissance, classical and contemporary choral music to folk, jazz and pop. Frequently performing at the Gresham Centre, their home in London, they have also sung in London at the Royal Albert Hall, Kings Place (for the London A Cappella Festival), the Barbican, the Houses of Parliament and Wembley Arena. Over the last two years they have given performances in Italy, Germany, France, Holland, Poland, Estonia and the USA. This season they return to the USA as well as sing frequently in the UK, Germany and France. Apollo5 is part of the VCM Foundation, and leads its innovative education programme aiming to inspire creativity through music. Working alongside vocal ensemble VOCES8 and Paul Smith the programme reaches 40,000 young people annually across the world. Apollo5 has released albums with VCM Records, including their latest release “O Radiant Dawn”, released in May 2019. The Spirit Like a Dove”, is a recital of music by Josquin des Prez performed with the Ingenium Ensemble; “With a Song in my Heart” is an album of folk, jazz and pop; “Journey” on the Edition Peters Sounds label features the group with former King’s Singer Paul Phoenix. www.apollo5.co.uk