The Queen’s Six formed on the 450th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth I’s ascension to the English throne, as an offshoot group of the adults from the Choir of St. George’s Chapel. The chapel choir, which has sung at church services since 1348, today perform around eight services a week, and regularly before the Royal Family. The choir sang at Prince Harry and Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle’s wedding. Most recently, as part of the St.
Around 100 students from three schools in Brooklyn and Queens are planning on attending the concert. There will be a special section on both performance dates for around 170 students at the elegant gold-and-crimsoned Town Hall venue in midtown Manhattan. Students will be exposed to artists at their highest levels of their craft, Avery said.
Around the time they formed, The Queen’s Six noticed calls from “some very important people” for more contemporary styles of music, pop, and everything else in between, Whiteley said.“I’d love to be able to say that it was the Queen,” Whiteley said. “It’s just that style of music is much more suitable for after-dinner entertainment. I think it just leads to so much more musical interest when you’re free to mix these styles and genres.
The Queen’s Six discography has included Christmas and Tudor music, as well sounds from the cathedrals of Mexico in their “Journeys to the New World” album. The group continues pushing boundaries by embracing music from the past and present corners of music repertoire: austere early chant, florid Renaissance polyphony, lewd madrigals, haunting folk songs, and jazz and pop arrangements.