Tate Modern's Turbine Hall to host free choral concert

The 450th anniversary of Thomas Tallis’s choral piece Spem in Alium will be celebrated with a free online concert from the Tate Modern.

The ORA Singers, conducted by Suzi Digby, will perform Tallis’s monumental work - which famously includes 40 individual parts - in the suitably grand Turbine Hall.

The choir will also perform the world premiere of a specially commissioned 40-part piece by one of the greatest living choral composers, Sir James MacMillan. This piece reflects the message of 'Spem', meaning hope, for the modern day.

The concert will be livestreamed free online on Tate’s YouTube and Facebook channels at 8pm on 16 September.

You can find out more about the concert here, and listen to the President of the ORA Singers, Stephen Fry, introduce it below.