About

Recordare is an exciting young professional vocal ensemble, passionate about curating highly expressive Recordings and performances.

Founded in 2018 by award winning conductor Harry Bradford and professional sopranos Danni and Kirsty O’Neill, the group consists of some of the best young professional singers in the UK. With origins in the Genesis Sixteen training scheme and the Royal Academy of Music, the singers regularly perform with many of the UK’s finest professional vocal ensembles and are also accomplished soloists in within the spheres of both oratorio and opera. 

The size of the group varies depending on the musical demands of the project and this flexible structure allows the group to offer a varied musical palette from intimate, solo voice programmes right up to the larger scale choral/orchestral works. The group performs most regularly as a 16-voice chamber choir which lends itself well to the various different musical demands of the group’s innovative programmes. 

Previous performances have included concerts for Weston Music Society, Martin Randall Travel - including the ‘London Choral Day’ and the ‘Celebrating William Byrd’ festival, ‘Music Divine’ for the Islington Proms, sold out concerts of ‘Polychorality’, including Frank Martin’s ‘Mass for Double Choir’ and ‘Ye Sacred Muses’ in St Margaret's church Putney, as well as opening the prestigious 'Spotlight Concert' as part of The Sixteen's ‘Sounds Sublime Festival’. 

Recordare have also appeared across Classic FM's social media channels with a performance of Reginald Jacques arrangement of ‘Away in a Manger' reaching over 90,000 views. This, alongside two other recordings with Selber Records, can be found on Spotify and all other major streaming platforms. 

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Recordare enjoyed working with the 10,000 strong Choir of the Earth (with worldwide membership) creating learning tracks and providing solos for their ‘Requiems at Home’ and ‘Christmas at Home’ projects. The group has since supported a number of in-person come and sing events and is often invited to perform at weddings, funerals and other functions.

Find videos of us on all social media platforms, including on Classic FM’s social media. We also have two new singles out on Spotify now.

MEET the team

  • Harry Bradford

    CONDUCTOR & CO-FOUNDER

    Harry Bradford is a prize-winning conductor and choral director working in the UK and Europe. Since winning Second Prize in the prestigious Eric Ericson Award in 2021, he has collaborated with a number of the world's finest vocal ensembles including the MDR Rundfunkchor, | Leipzig, the Eric Ericsons Kammarkör, The Sixteen and the Swedish Radio Choir.

    Recent career highlights include the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 and JS Bach B Minor Mass at Cadogan Hall, Handel Israel in Egypt at St John's Smith Square and CPE Bach Magnificat at the St Endellion Easter Festival. Alongside his position as the conductor of Recordare. Harry is the Musical Director of Thames Philharmonic Choir, the English Baroque Choir and North Herts Guild of Singers Equally in demand as workshop leader, Harry has led choral workshops for The Sixteen as part of their Choral Pilgrimage tour, the Cherubim Music Trust and Labrador Events. Harry was also a course director for the Choir of the Earth, an online choir with a global membership, leading them in their 'Requiems at Home' and Festival of Music courses.

    Harry read music at Downing College Cambridge and was a member of the choir of King's College under the late Sir Stephen Cleobury. He studied Choral Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music with Professor Patrick Russill and graduated with distinction, a DipRAM and the Academy Alumni Award for 'a singularly distinguished studentship' During his time at the Academy, Harry was also Genesis Sixteen conducting scholar 2018-19, studying under Harry Christophers and Eamonn Dougan, and the Alec Robertson scholar at Westminster Cathedral.

    He remains active as a singer and recently performed as part of the Choir of His Majesty's Chapel Royal at the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

  • Kirsty O'Neill

    SOPRANO & CO-FOUNDER

    Kirsty O’Neill is a freelance soprano performing as a soloist and ensemble singer throughout the UK and abroad. She is due to graduate from her Master's degree in vocal performance at The Royal Academy of Music in 2024 where she holds a scholarship and is supported by the Josephine Baker Trust.

    Kirsty is a regular soloist for Oratorio concerts around the country with recent highlights including Mozart Requiem and Solemn Vespers. and Haydn Nelson Moss in Canterbury Cathedral, Handel Dixit Dominus and JS Bach's B Minor Mass in Norwich Cathedral. JS Bach St John Passion with Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Mozart Mass in C Minor with Ealing Choral Society in Cadogan Hall.

    As a choral singer, Kirsty has performed, recorded and toured with professional choirs. including The Gabrieli Consort, Polyphony, The BBC Singers, Chamber Choir of London, Ora Singers and a number of London's professional church choirs. She is an alumna of the Genesis Sixteen programme run by Harry Christophers and The Sixteen and was a Choral Scholar at Royal Holloway, University of London. With the Royal Holloway Chapel Choir, she toured and recorded extensively and featured as a soloist on their 'Winter Songs' Christmas CD which reached number one in the UK Classical Charts.

  • Danni O'Neill

    SOPRANO & CO-FOUNDER

    Danni O’Neill is a soprano, recently graduated with distinction in her Master's degree in vocal performance from the Royal Academy of Music.

    Alongside holding a scholarship at RAM, Danni was awarded the Michael Head Prize for English Song, a DipRAM for an outstanding final recital and performed JS Bach's solo cantata Weichet Nur. Betrübte Schatten alongside violinist Rachel Podger.

    Danni recently made her Wigmore Hall debut with the solo-voice ensemble Solomon's Knot and her professional opera chorus debuts in Lille and Luxembourg Opera Houses performing Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Handel's Semele with the Concert D'Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm.

    Recent oratorio engagements include JS Bach St Matthcw Passion with The Hanover Band, St John Passion in Southwell Minster.

    Handel Dixit Dominus with The Instruments of Time and Truth, the world premiere of Cecilia McDowall's Bird of Time with Ealing Choral Society and Telemann Cantata Deine Toten werden leben at Baroquestock. Recent operatic experience includes Hogarth's Garden with London Early Opera and Second Woman/Witch in Dido and Aeneas with Helsinki Baroque Orchestra at the Musiikkitalo.

    Danni continues to perform with many of the UK's most prestigious ensembles including The Sixteen. Polyphony. The Gabrieli Consort. The Academy of Ancient Music. La Nuova Musica, and The BBC Singers. She combines this work with her position as a regular soprano in the professional choir at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge.

    Danni currently studies with Raymond Connell and is coached by James Baillieu.