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Jonathan Rendell (b. 1988)

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Jonathan was born in Windsor, Berkshire in 1988. Living in the cloisters at Windsor Castle, he spent his much of his early years listening to the choir at St George’s Chapel. Jonathan Rendell continues a family tradition of choristership – both his Father and Grandfather were head choristers at Westminster Abbey. He began his early music training on the piano and violin whilst at Trinity St Stephen Church of England School, Windsor. He became a member of the Berkshire Boys’ Choir with whom he sang until the family moved to Scotland.

Jonathan joined the choir of St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh in 1999 singing over 250 services every year and taking part in the choir’s concerts, broadcasts and recordings.

In March 2001 Jonathan was heard as a soloist on a Radio 3 Choirworks Broadcast from Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall of Fauré’s Messe Basse, which the cathedral choir later recorded on the Lammas label to critical acclaim. During the Edinburgh Festival in 2001 Jonathan sang the boy’s solo role in the first performance of Dave Heath’s Requiem “The Beloved” which was recorded for release on the Blackbox label. He is also a soloist on a forthcoming disc of works by the Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt from whom St Mary’s Cathedral commissioned a setting of the Nunc Dimittis.

In September 2001, Jonathan became Decani Head Chorister of the Cathedral Choir. He has twice represented St Mary’s Music School in the Choir Schools Association Northern Division Annual Football Tournament, once as Captain. In September 2002 he took up an instrumental place at St Mary’s Music School, studying violin with Warren Jacobs.

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Featured Recordings

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Such a Feast (Lammas LAMM 138D, CD) December 2003

Featuring Jonathan Rendell

1. Bist du bei mir (Bach)
2. I know that my redeemer liveth [Messiah] (Handel)
3. Evening Hymn (Purcell)
4. Pie Jesu (Fauré)
5. Long since in Egypt’s plenteous land (Parry)
6. No small wonder (Paul Edwards)
7. A New Year Carol (Britten)
8. Nunc dimittis (Burgon) Zwei geistliches Lieder (Reger):
9. Ich sehe dich in tausend Bildern
10. Meine Seele ist still zu Gott
11. O sacrum convivium (Matthew Owens)
12. The Lord’s Prayer (Frank Martin arr. Ian Tracey)
13. The Call (Vaughan Williams)
14. Panis Angelicus (Franck)
15. Amazing grace (American trad. arr. Powell)
16. Pie Jesu (Duruflé)
17. Lord of the dance (Shaker tune arr. Matthew Owens)

Available at Lammas
Review at MusicWeb UK

Other Recordings

Compact | Full

Heath: Sirocco (Black Box 1083, CD) March 2003

Featuring Jonathan Rendell The Choir of St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh
Requiem "The Beloved" (tracks 9-11) with Jonathan Rendell, treble, with Edinburgh St. Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral Choir.

Available at Amazon.com

Fauré: Requiem (Lammas LAMM 130D, CD)

Featuring The Choir of St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh Jonathan Rendell Donald Thomson

1. Requiem - Introit and Kyrie (L)
2. Requiem - Offertory (L)
3. Requiem - Sanctus (L)
4. Requiem - Pie Jesu (L)		treble solo: Donald Thompson
5. Requiem - Agnus Dei (L)
6. Requiem - Libera Me (L)
7. Requiem - In Paradisum (L)
8. Ave Maria (L)
9. Maria, Mater Gratiae (L)
10. Cantique de Jean Racine (L)
11. Messe Basse - Kyrie (L)		treble solo: Jonathan Rendell
12. Messe Basse - Sanctus (L)
13. Messe Basse - Benedictus (L)		treble solo: Jonathan Rendell
14. Messe Basse - Agnus Dei (L)

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