To a Better Sun

Cory FergusonViolin

Cory Ferguson divides her time between working as a lawyer, playing the violin and being a mum. Having begun learning the violin by the Suzuki method, Cory later studied with Kathryn Hardman and Christopher Hirons. She was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and in 1997 led the National Youth Chamber Orchestra. Cory was an instrumental award-holder at Cambridge University and after graduating worked as a freelance violinist in Bristol for a time, including leading the Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra, where she has recently returned as guest leader, and performing with local groups such as the Bristol Ensemble. She now lives in South- East London and has led the Kensington Chamber Orchestra since 2010. Formed in 1994, mostly from musicians who live in Bromley, Orpington and Croydon, the Sine Nomine Singers perform both sacred and secular music from the sixteenth century to the present day. Recent programmes have included J. S. Bach’s St John Passion and motets, Parry’s Songs of Farewell, Duruflé’s Requiem, Martin’s Mass for Double Choir, and a wide variety of shorter works by composers including Byrd, Blow, Battishill, and Bednall, MacMillan and Moeran, des Prez and Purcell, and Sheppard, Schütz, and Stanford. In addition to concerts at local venues, the choir has sung Evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, and has performed at Tallinn in Estonia; at Steinfeld Monastery, Germany; at Saumur on the Loire in France; in the church attached to the Manor House, Chideock, Dorset; and at many other venues.