Following the success of Steve Block's Solaris, premièred in the Barbican Hall on 22nd May 2010, our next commission will be Ode to a Nightingale, Keats' famous poem set to music by Will Todd, composer of the very successful Mass in Blue (also a Hertfordshire Chorus commission). The première will be in the Barbican Hall on Wednesday 11th May 2011 together with a performance of Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem.