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Sea Song – A Music Film

This is the premiere recording of Sea Song performed by the ensemble Conceptus. The single is available for digital download and streaming now.

Australian composer Timothy Collins crafted this setting of the poem ‘Sea Song’ by New Zealand poet Katherine Mansfield. The video and single is released to coincide with the centenary of Mansfield’s death which is being notably marked in her native New Zealand. The Sea Song music film is a fully realised narrative film produced by Conceptus artistic director and tenor, Scott Robert Shaw and featuring actress Patricia Aragon. Filmed at Black Rock Sands in Wales in February 2023, the film was directed and choreographed by James Cardell-Oliver who worked closely with Scott Robert Shaw and director of photography James Paisley Chapman to interpret Mansfield’s poem.

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About Conceptus

Conceptus is an international, multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary ensemble with a membership drawn from Germany, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Poland and Australia. Formed in 2021 during the Coronavirus Pandemic, the ensemble is dedicated to bringing new life to great works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and beyond, with a particular emphasis on Late Romantic British vocal music and song cycles. Their debut album, “Gods, Ghosts and Monsters” is set for release by Divine Art Records in early 2024 and will feature music by Butterworth, Warlock, Holst and Bridge.
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Gods, Ghosts and Monsters

This debut album, from Germany based ensemble Conceptus, features music for tenor and ensemble by Butterworth, Warlock, Holst and Bridge, in addition to Timothy Collins’ Sea Song. Collins has composed and arranged extensively for the ensemble.

Launch Concert May 3 2024

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