Due to the coronavirus situation, we very sadly  had to cancel our concert which was planned for 2nd May 2020.

 

 

 

Unfortunately, the concert planned for Saturday 14th December 2019 has been cancelled due to the sudden illness of Richard Emms, our conductor.

 

 

 

7.30 pm, Saturday 11th May, 2019

St. Edmund’s Church, Shipston-on-Stour

Handel – Foundling Hospital Anthem

Monteverdi – Beatus vir

Vivaldi – Dixit Dominus

with:

Susanna Fairbairn – soprano*

Cathy Bell – mezzo-soprano

Tom Raskin – tenor*

Julian Debreuil – bass baritone*

* by arrangement with Ann Ferrier Artists

7.30pm, Saturday 15th December, 2018

St. Edmund’s Church, Shipston-on-Stour

Haydn, The Creation

with

Raphaela Papadakis* – soprano

Richard Dowling – tenor

Alan Fairs** – bass-baritone

(* kindly supported by Making Music’s Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists scheme

** by arrangement with Davies Music)

 

 

12th May, 2018

St. Edmund’s Church, Shipston-on-Stour

Rutter, Magnificat

Fauré, Requiem

with

Ruth Holton* – soprano

Robert Rice* – baritone

*(by arrangement with Davies Music)

9th December 2017

St. Edmund’s Church, Shipston-on-Stour

Mozart, Exultate jubilate
Kuhnau, cantata Uns ist ein Kind geboren
J.S. Bach, cantata 191, Gloria in Excelsis Deo

with:

Robyn Allegra Parton – soprano

Phillipa Thomas * – mezzo-soprano

Robert Tilson * – tenor

Alistair Donaghue – bass baritone

(* by arrangement with Birmingham Conservatoire)

and the

Queen’s Park Sinfonia

and our rehearsal accompanist Rachel Bird on keyboard

13th May 2017
St. Edmund’s Church, Shipston-on-Stour

with:

Anita Watson – soprano
Tim Morgan – counter-tenor
Ben Thapa – tenor
Alistair Donaghue – baritone
Darren Jeffery – bass-baritone

and Queen’s Park Sinfonia

Handel – Saul

Reviews

 

7th May, 2016
St. Edmund’s Church, Shipston-on-Stour

Mendelssohn – Nunc dimittis
Charpentier – Filius prodigus
Haydn – Missa in angustiis (Nelson Mass)

 

12th December 2015
St. Edmund’s Church, Shipston-on-Stour

with:

Robyn Allegra Parton (soprano)
Clare McCaldin (mezzo-soprano)
Nathan Vale (tenor)
Njabulo Madlala (baritone)

Bach – Christmas Oratorio

Cantata 4 – On New Year’s Day (Circumcision)
Cantata 5 – On the Sunday after New Year’s Day
Cantata 6 – On the Feast of Epiphany