The posters have arrived and are looking lovely! Tickets are now on sale for our Christmas concert in Lewes on Sunday 22nd December at 6pm. We’ll be singing Vivaldi Gloria, plus carols and festive pieces including ‘Verbum Caro Factum Est’ from the Christmas Reponsories by Portuguese baroque composer João Rodrigues Esteves, and ‘Ecco il Messia’,…
2024 Christmas Concert in Lewes
We’re back for our biennial Christmas concert at St Michael’s in Lewes, on Sunday 22nd December 2024. It’s an exciting programme – we’re performing Vivaldi Gloria accompanied by a string quartet led by the brilliant Julia Bishop and with the equally brilliant Howard Beach playing Nick’s chamber organ. We’ll also get to hear ‘Winter’ from…
Westminster Abbey visit postponed
Disappointingly, our Evensong on August 3rd is cancelled. Sadly, there was a mix-up at the Abbey and we found out we had been double-booked with another choir who are coming down from Yorkshire! It’s unusual for the Abbey to make such a mistake, but they were very apologetic and offered us a choice of dates…
Tour to the Netherlands
At the end of May we shall be off to the Netherlands. On Saturday 25th May at 8pm we’ll be giving a concert of music by English composers at the Lokhorstkerk in Leiden. The Lokhorstkerk is a wonderful 17th century church with an organ that is 250 years old this year. Our programme features sacred…
Eastbourne concert February 2024
We’re reprising our October concert ‘Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars’ in Eastbourne in February. The programme will be almost the same, but with a few tweaks. We’re delighted to have Hamish Dustagheer accompanying us again, and we’ll be presenting the concert as a sequence, as we did in Lewes, since it went down…
Rehearsals going well… just 2 weeks to go
We have just one more half-day rehearsal for our concert on Saturday 14th October, and we’re really enjoying the music. Last Saturday was the first in ‘seating plan’ – the point when we find out just how well we know our parts! The Jonathan Dove piece ‘Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars’ is a…
Concert October 2023: British Choral Classics
Our next concert is at St Michael’s Church in Lewes on Saturday 14 October. It will feature 20th and 21st century choral pieces by British composers, including Jonathan Dove’s Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars, Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to St Cecilia and Lennox Berkeley Missa Brevis. OUr organ accompanist is Hamish Dustagheer. Tickets are…
Forthcoming events
We’re busy planning some exciting future events in 2024 – 25, including visits to Chichester and Ely Cathedrals, and a tour to the Netherlands. More on this to come! Meanwhile this October we are planning a concert in Lewes, featuring 20th century and contemporary British choral music. Details nearer the time.
Christmas Concert December 2022
We’re delighted to be giving a full-strength concert this Christmas at St Michael’s in Lewes. It’s on Sunday 18th December at 6pm and the programme includes an eclectic mix of lovely seasonal music and carols. Joining us are five fabulous players: violinists Julia Bishop and Ally Bury with Jan Schlapp on viola, Anna Holmes on…
Two Summer Concerts
A small group of us are singing a summer concert at the end of this month, which we’re calling My Spirit Sang All Day, after the song by Gerald Finzi which is on the programme. We’re actually performing it twice – on Friday 29th July in St Nicholas Church in the lovely village of Iford…