Handel: Dixit Dominus
14th Nov 2026, 3pm, St Paul’s Church, Hills Road, Cambridge
Handel Dixit Dominus
Bach Brandenburg Concertos No 3 & 4
Duration: 60 minutes, no interval
Cambridge Philharmonic Chorus
Cambridge Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
Soloists from the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music
Conductor : Harry Sever
Principal guest leader: Jorge Jimenez
Jasmine Flicker: Soprano
Isabella Hulbert: Soprano
Alexander Thow: Countertenor
Tom Butler: Bass
Max Robbins : Tenor
Up-and-coming vocal soloists from the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music will unite with our chorus in one of Handel’s choral-orchestral masterworks Dixit Dominus. Florid vocal writing combines with Baroque orchestral fireworks, alongside moments of extraordinary serenity.
Joined by our new principal guest leader and Baroque specialist Jorge Jimenez, soloists from the orchestra will perform two of Bach’s most-loved Brandenburg concerti in the first half.
Tickets
Tickets: £20.00, £15.00 (student concessions) Free essential companions tickets available – get in touch to book.
Pre-bookable programme £2
Please note that tickets are purchased on a non-refundable basis.
Guest Soloists
Soprano Isabella Hulbert is passionate about creating narrative storytelling through her programming. She combines classical and musical theatre vocal styles and utilises her training as a violinist – at the heart of her work in ‘The Juno Duo’. Together, the duo arrange their repertoire to create through-composed theatrical performances, alongside composing their own works. Their innovative style has taken them to many festivals and music societies across the UK, including The London Guitar Festival, The Petworth Proms, The International Guitar Foundation Summit and The Ham Farm Festival, with recent and upcoming engagements including a residency at the London Transport Museum, launching The Proms at St Judes 2025, a series of recitals at Kings Place, The Petworth Festival and recording their original arrangements at the VOCES8 Centre. She performed as Papagena for Opera Greenwich and as Hostess in new work ‘Get Your Licks In’ at the Tete A Tete Opera Festival. She is the soprano scholar for the Thames Philharmonic Choir, and her Oratorio solo work includes soprano solos in Haydn’s ‘Nelson Mass’, Mozart’s ‘Vesperae De Confessore’ (dir.Piers Maxim), and ‘The Messiah’ (dir. Ian Tracey). Her writing exploring the creative output of composers for ballet has been published for ‘Voices of British Ballet’.
Jasmine Flicker is a British classical singer and violinist who studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and now studies at The Royal Academy of Music.
Flicker made her professional opera debut in Pegasus Opera’s double bill The Six of Calais and Ruth (2023). She made her main stage and role debut as Papagena in Nevill Holt Festival’s The Magic Flute (June 2024) and Belinda, Dido and Aeneas (Longborough Festival Opera). Other theatre work includes playing the title role in The Immortal Henrietta Lacks at Theatre Peckham (2024). As a Vache Baroque Young Artist in 2021, performances included Paradise & Pandemonium and later being a featured soloist for the VB Showcase: Women of the Baroque. Jasmine Flicker has been appointed to their board of Trustees.
Other chorus work includes the Hanover Band’s Messiah UK Tour 2021, Chineke! Voices at the BBC Proms (2022), and performances with The Opera Makers as well as the Black British Classical Foundation. She has been supported vocally this year through the National Opera Studio’s Diverse Voices Programme.
Work in film includes being the violin soloist in Marvel’s Black Widow (2021), with music composed by Lorne Balfe. Work in TV includes Netflix’s Bridgerton (2024) and Take Me to the Opera on BBC (2023). From 2023-24 she has been a mentee on the Pegasus Opera Mentoring Scheme with Glyndebourne.
“Jasmine Flicker is an engaging Papagena.” Music OMH Sam Smith
“Purcell’s affecting Music for a While, from another work altogether, was beautifully sung by Jasmine Flicker (Belinda).” The Observer Fiona Maddocks
Tom Butler read Music at St John’s College, Cambridge, and is currently studying in the Royal Academy Opera School at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studies under Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham.
Tom’s operatic engagements include performing various roles in an Opera Gala at Château de Panloy, France with Westminster Opera Company (2024), and at Ryedale Festival where he sang Adonis in Blow’s Venus and Adonis. In 2025, Tom performed as Escamillo in the Royal Academy of Music’s production of Bizet’s Carmen and as the Herald of the Courtiers in Britten’s The Burning Fiery Furnace. In Royal Academy of Music opera scenes, his roles have included Wozzeck in Berg’s Wozzeck, Marcello in Puccini’s La Bohème, and the Count in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. Other appearances include Eisenstein (Strauss, Die Fledermaus) with the Cambridge University Opera Society (CUOS), Figaro (Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro) and Achilla (Handel, Giulio Cesare) with the Trinity College Music Society, and the
Twin Brothers (Schubert, Die Zwillingsbrüder) with CUOS.
Tom presented a recital of Brahms songs and duets at Ryedale Festival in 2024 accompanied by Christopher Glynn and singing with Caroline Blair. A keen performer of contemporary music, Tom gave the world premiere of a new song cycle by composer Tim Watts at the Our Place in Space Festival. Tom has been the recipient of various awards, including the Michael Head Song Prize (2025), the Postgraduate Vocal Prize at the Royal Academy of Music (2024), the Donald Wort Prize at Cambridge (2021), and First Prize in the Clare College Song Competition (2021). Both the Postgraduate Vocal Prize and Donald Wort Prize were awarded for attaining the highest final recital mark in his year at each institution respectively. He was also a finalist in the Richard Lewis Competition (2024).
His concert work includes recent performances as a soloist with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Bruckner Choir in Bach’s Mass in B Minor at St John’s Smith Square (2025), Haydn’s The Creation at the same venue (2024), Handel’s Messiah with the Academy of Ancient Music at Westminster Abbey (2023), and Brahms’ Ein deutsches
Requiem with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at Christchurch Priory (2023). He has also appeared as a soloist with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Tom’s notable performances at Cambridge include his role as a soloist on Magnificat 3 with St John’s College Choir, and on the recording of Chesnokov’s All-Night Vigil with St John’s Voices. He has also appeared as a soloist with St John’s College Choir on BBC Radio 3 and 4 broadcasts.
Tom is a Lay Vicar in the choir of Westminster Abbey, where he performed for the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III.
Max Robbins is a London based tenor. He recently graduated with distinction in his vocal master’s at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, under the tutelage of Marcus van den Akker and Yvonne Kenny. He previously read Music at Durham, singing with the John’s College Chapel Choir and Chamber Choir.
As a soloist, Max has appeared in opera scenes from Albert Herring, Fidelio, Idomeneo, and Don Giovanni at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Here Max also premiered the role of Roger in the Opera Makers production of Elara Catching Sky, composed by Yotham Ben Yami and conducted by Dominic Wheeler.
Max’s professional operatic engagements include the roles of Ferrando in Così fan tutte with Glass Light Productions, and later with Scherzo Ensemble, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas with Samling Artists, and the title role in King Arthur with the Istante Collective.
Notably, Max was a member of the Royal Opera House chorus in a production of Handel’s Giustino, conducted by David Bates and performed in the Linbury theatre with La Nuova Musica.
Max’s previous Oratorio solo performances include Messiah with Eaton Choral Society, Elijah and the St John Passion with Cleveland Philharmonic. He is looking forward to performing solos in Montiverdi’s Vespers with the Geldart Ensemble and Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with the London Mozart Players this coming season.
As a session singer, Max has collaborated with microtonal singer/songwriter Maddie Ashman on the song In Autumn My Heart Breaks. Recently, Max was a part of the London Oratorio, performed at the Royal Festival Hall as a part of Kavi Pau’s Third Culture Collective in collaboration with Jacob Collier and a variety of London-based vocal ensembles.
Max is also passionate about Art song, performing works by Chausson, Gounod and Strauss at the 1901 Arts Club in Waterloo with regular collaborators, pianist Lucy Barratt and soprano Ona Černiauskaitė. He has also performed in various song projects in Milton Court Concert Hall, led by Graham Johnson and Eugene Asti.
Alexander Thow is a versatile British countertenor whose repertoire spans oratorio, opera, song, and early music.
He is an experienced oratorio soloist, supported by the Josephine Baker Trust. Recent engagements include Handel’s Dixit Dominus with the London Mozart Players; Handel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt; J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor, St John Passion and Magnificat; and Purcell’s Come Ye Sons of Art with Cambridge Early Music. Alexander is an Emerging Artist of the Brighton Early Music Festival with Vega Consort, with whom he performed at the Utrecht Early Music Festival earlier this year.
At the Royal Academy of Music, Alexander studies with Marcus van den Akker and Iain Ledingham, and is a recipient of the Juliens Award. He is an Academy Baroque Soloist and a member of the Academy Song Circle. In RAM Opera Scenes, Alexander has portrayed Arsace in Handel’s Partenope, Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, and Armando in Meyerbeer’s Il Crociato in Egitto. With a keen interest in contemporary music, he was part of the premiere of a short opera for the Academy’s Opera Makers programme, which was recently performed again at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival.
Before beginning his vocal studies, Alexander studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge and graduated with a master’s degree in chemistry. In his time there he sang with the choirs of Trinity College and St John’s College, recording multiple albums and performing in venues across Europe and the USA. Alexander is also a pianist, with concert experience including Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and he regularly collaborates with other singers in recitals and competitions.
Location – St Paul’s Church & Community Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge. CB2 1JP MAP
Located just a short walk from Cambridge Train Station and only 10 minutes from the historic city centre.
St Paul’s Church has full disabled access and disabled toilets.
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Photo Credits throughout: Bill Hiskett Photography