[2] The choir was launched that year with a performance of Nigel Short's own composition, The Dream of Herod.
[6] The choir has extensively toured to critical acclaim,[1] and won the Choral category of BBC Music Magazine's Awards in 2012.
[8] Nigel Short is also a recording producer for Signum Records, producing the albums A Choral Christmas with the Rodolfus Choir conducted by Ralph Allwood[9] and Invisible Stars with the Choral Scholars of University College Dublin conducted by Desmond Earley.
[10] In 2021 Short and Tenebrae worked with the Self-Isolation Choir on Thomas Tallis's 40-part Spem in alium.
The Tenebrae singers recorded each of the 40 parts, and Short conducted 40 rehearsals of 90 minutes, broadcast live on Youtube and available for choir members to watch again, in July and August.