Concerts

All concerts are held at St Edmund’s Church, Shipston on Stour, CV36 4AP Tickets can be purchased at ticketsource.co.uk/stour-singers or on the door.

Saturday 12th December 2026

  • Leonarda, Domine ad Adiuvandum Me; Gloria in Excelsis Deo; Ave Regina Caeli; Magnificat
  • Charpentier, Messe de Minuit
  • Christmas Carols

with

Rachel Bird, Organ

and Musicians of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Past Concerts

soloists marked * appear by arrangement with www.annferrierartists.com

Saturday 9th May 2026

  • Rossini, Petite Messe Solennelle

with

Lynn Arnold and Rachel Bird, Piano
Yuliia Humeniuk, Accordion

Hannah Andrusier, Soprano
Clemmie Franks, Mezzo-soprano
Graham Neal, Tenor
Peter Brooke, Bass-baritone

Saturday 13th December 2025

Our first Christmas concert under the direction of Alex Silverman.

  • Joseph Haydn, Little Organ Mass
  • Marianna von Martines, Dixit Dominus
  • Christmas Carols

with

Rachel Bird, Organ
Robyn Pullen, Soprano
Lufuno Ndou, Mezzo-soprano

and Musicians of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

MAY 2025 – 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

  • Brahms, Requiem
  • Mozart, Ave Verum Corpus
  • Schubert, Fantasie in F Minor

with

Lynn Arnold and Charles Matthews, Piano
Robyn Pullen, Soprano
Roderick Williams OBE, Baritone

DECEMBER 2024

  • Vivaldi, Beatus vir and Magnificat
  • Handel, Messiah excerpts

with

Louise Wayman, Soprano*
Cathy Bell, Alto*
Matthew Pochin, Tenor*

and Musicians of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

MAY 2024

  • Haydn, Nelson Mass
  • Purcell, Te Deum Jubilate
  • Mozart, Laudate Dominum and Dixit

with

Louise Wayman, soprano*
Judith Le Breuilly, mezzo soprano*
Matthew Pochin, tenor*
James Birchall, bass*

and Musicians of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

DECEMBER 2023


  • Ralph Vaughan Williams   Five Mystical Songs  and   Fantasia on Christmas  Carols

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart     Ave verum corpus

  • Carols for all                  
with

Thomas Humphreys, bass baritone*

and Musicians of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

MAY 2023


  • Handel’s Messiah
with

Natalie Montakhab – soprano*
James Neville – countertenor
Matthew Minter – tenor*
William Burn – bass baritone

and Musicians of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

DECEMBER 2022


  • Georg Philip Telemann – Magnificat

  • Joseph Haydn – Nikolai Mass

with

Brittany King – soprano*
Tom Lilburn – countertenor*
Julian Stocker – tenor*
Thomas Humphreys – baritone*
Julian Debreuil – bass baritone*

and Musicians of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

MAY 2022


  • Dvorak      Mass in D

  • Mozart  Vesper psalms from K339

with

Ana Beard Fernández – soprano (Making Music Selected Artist)
Cathy Bell – mezzo-soprano*
Daniel Joy – tenor*
Alan Fairs – bass-baritone*

and

Ashley Wagner – organ

NO CONCERTS FROM DECEMBER 2019 TO DECEMBER 2021

MAY 2019


  • 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*

DECEMBER 2018


  • Haydn, The Creation
with

Raphaela Papadakis – soprano (kindly supported by Making Music’s Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists scheme)
Richard Dowling – tenor
Alan Fairs – bass-baritone (by arrangement with Davies Music)

MAY 2018

  • Rutter, Magnificat

  • Fauré, Requiem

with

Ruth Holton – soprano
Robert Rice – baritone

(by arrangement with Davies Music)

DECEMBER 2017


  • 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 (by arrangement with Birmingham Conservatoire)
Robert Tilson – tenor (by arrangement with Birmingham Conservatoire)
Alistair Donaghue – bass baritone

and the Queen’s Park Sinfonia

MAY 2017


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

and the Queen’s Park Sinfonia

DECEMBER 2016


  • Vaughan Williams – Five mystical songs

  • Telemann – Allein Gott in die Höh sei Ehre

  • Handel, Excepts from Messiah

  • Carols for choir and all

Robert Rice – baritone
and the Queen’s Park Sinfonia

MAY 2016


  • Mendelssohn – Nunc dimittis

  • Charpentier – Filius prodigus

  • Haydn – Missa in angustiis (Nelson Mass)

DECEMBER 2015


  • 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

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

MAY 2015
40th Anniversary Concert


  • Beethoven – Mass in C

  • Mendelssohn – Lauda Sion

Ruth Holton – soprano
Shelley Coulter-Smith – mezzo soprano
Nathan Vale – tenor
Darren Jeffery – bass-baritone

DECEMBER 2014


  • Joseph Haydn – Kleine Orgelmesse

  • Buxtehude – Das Neugeborene Kindelein

  • Michael Haydn – Run, ye shepherds

  • Mozart – Laudate Dominum(from Vespers K,339)

  • Handel – Rejoice greatly; How beautiful are the feet (from Messiah)

  • Carols for all

with:
Natalie Montakhab – soprano

MAY 2014


  • Brahms – German Requiem
Robyn Allegra Parton – soprano
Quentin Hayes – baritone