Nicholas Houghton will conduct a selection of European motets at St Nicholas’ church in Brighton.
Further details will follow in the New Year.
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Our Christmas concert was a great success. The church was full with happy people all enjoying some lovely music for the season. Mulled wine and mince pies went down a storm too.
Hamish Dustagheer played the organ.
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Our summer concert in the lovely barn at Court Garden Vineyard was a sell-out success! We thoroughly enjoyed singing the gorgeous programme Liz compiled. Afterwards she told the choir ” It was quite wonderful to see you bring the programme to life. I am grateful to everyone for putting the work in – even supporting my more outrageous ideas – and performing with energy and commitment to give the audience a very enjoyable concert.” Everyone who came really did enjoy it!
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Thank you to everyone to came to the concert on Sunday March 23rd. We certainly enjoyed singing this wonderful challenging programme and we hope you all enjoyed the music.
Director Nicholas Houghton has designed a programme of beautiful and emotional music for Passiontide. Stabat Mater (Pergolesi) composed in 1736, is one of the composer’s most celebrated works, achieving great popularity after the composer’s death. Originally scored for alto and soprano soloists, this arrangement is for choir and organ. The other two works in the concert are more modern. Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence (Four Penitential Motets), are pieces composed by Francis Poulenc in 1938–39. He wrote them on texts for penitence, scored for four unaccompanied voices. Igor Stravinsky published his Mass in 1948, prompted by his discovery of some Mozart masses in a Los Angeles second-hand bookshop. It sets the Catholic Latin text and was intended for liturgical use though it works well for concerts too..
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Our Christmas concert in Ditchling on December 15th was a great success. Thank you to all who came and enjoyed the lovely programme Nick put together for us.
We visit the Sussex countryside for a musical celebration of Christmas.
The Church of St Margaret of Antioch is the centrepiece of the historic village of Ditchling on the borders of East and West Sussex.
We are delighted to bring a fabulous programme of choral music to this ancient and fascinating building: https://www.beaconparish.co.uk/st-margaret-s
The concert will feature Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols with harp accompaniment. Other pieces will include favourites by Rutter, Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, Vaughan Williams, Mathias, Darke and Praetorius.
There will be audience carols for everyone to join in to raise the roof in a splendid and joyous Christmas event.
Tickets at £15 available via this link: https://www.trybooking.com/uk/EARK or on the door.
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Sunday September 29th at 10.30 am
The choir is delighted to have been invited to participate in the church’s 150th anniversary celebrations.
Solemn Mass
Directed by Nicholas Houghton
Haydn- St. Nicholas Mass, Stanford – Justorum animae, Bullock – Give us the wings of faith
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December 15th at St Margaret’s Church in Ditchling
After a very successful sold-out event at Court Garden Vineyard, the choir will commence rehearsals in September for a special concert for the Christmas season in the parish church in Ditchling. Details to follow.
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Bye, bye Blackbird
On Sunday June 30th the choir will make its annual excursion into the Sussex countryside performing in the lovely Barn at Court Garden Vineyard in Ditchling. Elizabeth Woodhouse conducts a programme of lighthearted music including a celebration of birdsong and summer jazz from the Great American Songbook.
Local group Unfenced also feature.
Brighton Singers 