The Bevan Family Consort
Dubbed “The British Von Trapps” by The Times (2023), the Bevan Family Consort has earned a reputation for their extraordinary choral excellence, a tradition rooted in one of the UK’s most illustrious musical families.
Following the launch of their third and latest album, Attende Domine: Music for Lent & Passiontide, the choir have chosen to return to their native Somerset on Friday 19 September 2025 to give a one-off performance at Downside Abbey, where their grandfather Roger Bevan was Director of Music for over forty years.
Audiences can expect an enchanting evening hearing familiar works from the canon of sacred choral music by Palestrina and Byrd, as well as pieces from the late Romantic period by composers such as Parry and Stanford, not to mention those of the 20th century, including Colin Mawby and David Bevan.
The concert will be performed in aid of the Bevan Chorister Award, a recently established music scholarship in the name of the Bevan family and its long connection with music at Downside School and Abbey.