Songs
1. Lost In Wonder
2. By Your side
3. Be Still For The Presence Of The Lord
4. Jesus Christ, I Think Upon Your Sacrifice (Once Again)
5. What A Friend I've Found
Albums
String Heaven
String Heaven 2
String Heaven Christmas
Tour Dates
10 December 2010 - 10 December 2010
Southampton Central Hall
Worship Leaders
My BlogKings Chamber Orchestra
Formed in 1985 by Gerard Le Feuvre - and ranging in size from 9 to 60 players - the King's Chamber Orchestra is an outstanding professional orchestra, which performs many times throughout the year in London, the south and abroad.
It was in 1990 that the chamber orchestra began to perform regular concerts in support of the work of Youth With A Mission. Having been invited to play by John and Suzi Peachey, visionary YWAM leaders and cousins of Gerard’s, the orchestra went on to establish a regular home in YWAM’s Harpenden base. Thee followed a period where KCO began to experiment with informal concerts that were hilarious and accessible, and above all highly-charged with the orchestra’s own contagious faith.
Today the orchestra has regular venues all around the south of England (giving over forty performances a year), with a particular home and support base at St Andrew’s, Chorleywood. All the members of the orchestra are committed Christians whom Gerard has befriended and gathered throughout his London freelancing career, and throughout the year the orchestra operates not only with professionalism in its concert life but also as a community supporting one another with prayer, worship and friendship.
The orchestra's enthusiasm and humour, and a unique ability to touch the public with improvisations and worship, has attracted large and often unprecedented audiences wherever it has regularly performed. Among the orchestra’s regular concerts are a variety of programmes for narrator and orchestra, which tell thought-provoking tales with humour and pathos and for which the orchestra has collaborated with a number of actors. KCO also specialises in family matinées, which are uniquely interactive, educational and hilarious. These family concerts are regarded by many as the finest in the country as shown by this quote from a BBC producer.
“This outstanding professional orchestra gives the most original and exciting children’s concerts I have ever heard. Relaxed and informal, its imaginative programming is brilliantly presented. Way better than anything I have seen in Central London.” (Helen Mansfield, Producer, BBC TV Classical Music)
About Gerard Le Feuvre - Director
Gerard Le Feuvre was born in the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands in 1962. Like many of his generation, his musical inspiration as a child came from Jaqueline Du Pre (also descended from a Jersey family), to whom he is distantly related, and by his mid teens Gerard had won two national awards as an outstanding young British cellist. He went on to win scholarships to the Royal Academy of Music, the Banff School of Performing Arts (Canada), and the Sibelius Academy (Finland), studying with some of the greatest teachers and cellists in the world.
In 1980, while still a student, he gained first prize (CBS Records award) in the Royal Society of Arts national competition, and performed in the Luzern Festival in Switzerland, after which he was described as ‘a cellist of the highest class’ in the international press.
Gerard miraculously survived a parachuting accident while at the Royal Academy of Music (his parachute didn’t open properly), and his subsequent tenacity in continuing immediately to play the cello impressed Arto Noras (arguably the greatest living cellist), who then taught him for the next two years in Finland. During his 2nd year in Scandinavia Gerard had a personal encounter with Jesus, which catapulted him into a crisis over the superficiality of much in the art world.
Many issues in Gerard’s life surfaced at that time, and were not immediately resolved, and in fact the next 7 years were like ‘climbing a mountain with asthma’. Finally the breakthrough he needed arrived while encountering some very gifted Christians who understood about the power of holy spirit. Set free in a dramatic and powerful way by grace received at that time, Gerard poured his energy into the continuing and expanding work of the orchestra he founded – today known as the Kings Chamber Orchestra, and which is a distinguished professional and committed Christian orchestra.
Gerard has an unofficial role as ‘agony uncle’ to many of his colleagues in the music profession, and has a heart for encouraging and moving people forward. An active composer, Gerard has a lifelong interest in exploring themes of hope, redemption, and healing in music. With this in mind in 2004 Gerard accepted a commission to write a major orchestral work celebrating 800 years of Jersey’s history. The result was a 30-minute work for symphony orchestra, choir, children’s choir, off stage brass, and additional crowd of bell ringers. This work entitled The Rock is a call to thanksgiving and humility, and contains a moving and uplifting prophetic poem in Jersey’s ancient native language Jerriais, which speaks of the coming Saviour and was written during the Nazi occupation 60 years ago. It has received 3 performances, each to a standing ovation, and has recently been released on CD.
In the year 2000, the Royal Academy of Music awarded Gerard the title of “Associate” (ARAM) in honour of his “outstanding achievements in the music profession”.
