About The Voice Project

The Voice Project is the umbrella title covering the joint activities of singer/choral leader/composer partnership of Sian Croose and Jonathan Baker. . Since 2003 we have been running large-scale vocal performance projects in the UK which bring together outstanding musicians and community choirs in events that combine the ethos of community music with cutting-edge creativity and high performance and production values. Working with partners from Norwich Arts Centre, Norfolk and Norwich Festival, the Sage Gateshead, Jazz Sous Les Pommiers, the Norwegian and Swiss Cultural Foundations, Norwich Writers Centre and international music promoters Serious, we have premiered new works by Barbara Thompson, Karen Wimhurst, Richard Chew, Dennis Rollins, Andy Sheppard, Jon Hassell, Gwilym Simcock, Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang and Nik Bärtsch.

The Voice Project Choir conducted by Sian Croose with Nik Bärtsch at the piano NNF May '11

We also curate Vocal Invention, a yearly festival of vocal experiment and improvisation with the likes of Maggie Nicols, Phil Minton, Orlando Gough, Melanie Pappenheim & Rebecca Askew (Flam), Simon Thorne, Carol Grimes and Bill Drummond’s The 17.

As well as these activities, we’re involved as singers with two different vocal ensembles: Human Music (an eight-piece group of singer/composers: Sianed Jones, Helen Chadwick, Katherine Zeserson, Bex Mather, Sharon Durant, Dave Camlin, Sian Croose, Jonathan Baker) and Jabber – a vocal improvising quintet (Rebecca Askew, Jeremy Avis, Sianed Jones, Sian Croose & Jonathan Baker).

Our next commission for the Norfolk & Norwich Festival is called “Singing the City – from Dawn to Dusk” It is being composed by Helen Chadwick, Orlando Gough, Jonathan Baker and Jeremy Avis with words by George Szirtes and Andrew McDonnell. The show will be directed by Geraldine Pilgrim and is supported by Writers’ Centre, Norwich.