- Brighton Early Music Festival - 10 - 26 October
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Date Posted: Mon, 25 Aug 2025
Brighton Early Music Festival – 10-26 October 2025
Brighton Early Music Festival returns this autumn with more than 20 events across the city, kicking off with pre-festival participatory and family events from 20 September, including a choral and an instrumental workshop and concerts for pre-schoolers with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
The main festival events are grouped around 3 weekends, each offering an attractive programme for those from further away to combine with a weekend break.
Highlights include:
- the UK premiere of 1736 French baroque opera Les Caractères de l’Amourby Mlle Duval (10 October);
- a SongPath walk with music in Stanmer Park (18 October);
- a music and spoken word programme from Vache Baroque which takes its inspiration from the writings of Oscar Wilde and includes music by Purcell and Zelenka (24 October),
- La Fonte Musica visiting from Italy with Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (25 October)
- a Lieder programme featuring mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston with the Consone Quartet (26 October).
Full programme and tickets at www.bremf.org.uk
- Come and Sing event in Paulsgrove, Sat 20th September
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Date Posted: Sun, 24 Aug 2025
St Michael's in Paulsgrove invite you to join them for their:
Come and Sing Day
Father Hugo writes:
We're delighted to invite you and your singers to St Michael's for a Come and Sing Day on 20th September - details on the attached flyer.
It will be a fun day of singing together for singers at all levels, ending with a short act of worship. Everyone is very welcome!
Like to know more? Then contact me or our great friend, David Oldfield, who will be marshalling our forces on the day.
Everyone is welcome at St Michael's!
With my love
Fr Hugo
- Invitation to join a second choir - in Romsey
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Date Posted: Sun, 24 Aug 2025
Chris Sprott, the Chair of Romsey Choral Society, writes:
Dear Singer
Have you considered joining a second choir?
Romsey Choral Society is recruiting experienced singers, especially Tenors and Basses. We rehearse in Romsey Methodist Church on Tuesday Evenings and perform 4 concerts a year, two of which are in Romsey Abbey.
Repertoire for the upcoming season includes:
- Rachmaninov's Vespers
- Britten Choral Dances from Gloriana
- McDowell A Fancy of Folksongs
- Faure Cantique de Jean Racine
- Brahms Requiem
- Will Todd Mass in Blue (Nov 2026)
Please see our website for further details or contact our Membership Secretary:
membership@romseychoral.org.uk
www.romseychoral.org.uk
- PCU Concert 22 November
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Date Posted: Wed, 20 Aug 2025
Featuring music by Elgar, Finzi and Vaughan Williams.It is no exaggeration to describe Portsmouth Choral Union’s November concert as a ‘Choral Extravaganza’ featuring as it does two major choral works by British composers: one quite familiar, the other less well known.
Joining them in this concert will be the London based ‘Medici Choir’ with whom PCU performed Verdi’s Requiem in London, in 2023.
Vaughan Williams’s Towards the Unknown Region, first performed at the Leeds festival in 1907 sets a text by Walt Whitman and was written around the same time as his mighty Sea Symphony(1907) - also with a text by Whitman, this was his first major choral piece and a great success at its first performance.
Their less well-known offering will be Gerald Finzi’s Intimations of Immortality, a major work for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra using a text of the same name by William Wordsworth. As with the music of Vaughan Williams, Finzi’s style is melodic, harmonic and dramatic and this work is known for its contrasts of pastoral lyricism, stylish word setting and intense emotion, which the composers uses to explore the theme of childhood, lost innocence and immortality.
Alongside these two stunning choral works internationally acclaimed and award-winning cellists Pavlos Carvalho will perform Elgar’s ever popular ‘Cello Concerto’.
This stunning programme, performed by the combined forces of two major choral societies and featuring one of the most well-known of concertos in the Cello repertoire is not to be missed.
Buy tickets here.
- PCU Concert 13th December
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Date Posted: Wed, 20 Aug 2025
Join Hampshire County Youth Orchestra for an evening of magnificent Christmas music and celebrate their special relationship with Portsmouth Choral Union.HCYO is made up of about 150 members, all full-time students in Hampshire. The symphony orchestra performs core symphonic repertoire, new commissions, and works from film and stage.
Come along and enjoy listening to them play some Christmas favourites.
In addition to this Portsmouth Choral Union will sing a selection of old and new, well-known carols and seasonal music.
The concert, in time honored tradition, is interspersed with audience carols, so bring your singing voices!
So, get your tickets early and be prepared for our annual Christmas seasonal treat for all the family!
Buy tickets here.
- Titchfield Festival Theatre: Concerts at the Abbey
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Date Posted: Sun, 15 Jun 2025Concerts at the Abbey
Three Nights of Magical Music!
Summer Concerts at Titchfield AbbeyBring a picnic, bubbly & the family for three nights under the starsFriday 29 - Sunday 31 August 2025
Join the South Coast Symphonia for three magnificent summer concerts at Titchfield Abbey! A Night at the Oscars kicks us off for the weekend on Friday 29 August, transporting you through iconic classical movie themes, from silent film scores to blockbuster hits including:
- The Sound of Music, Harry Potter, The Great Escape and Mary Poppins
On Saturday 30 August, A Night of Mighty Musicals That Rocked the World! showcases Broadway and West End favourites with the Titchfield Festival Chorus, promising sing-alongs and unforgettable performances. These are just a few of the treats coming up:
- The Lion King Medley, Jesus Christ Superstar, Don't Cry for Me Argentina, Les Misérables
The grand finale on Sunday 31 August is Last Night at the Proms, a traditional and rousing conclusion to this superb musical extravaganza:
- Fantasia on British Sea Songs, Pomp and Circumstance No1, Jerusalem, Zampa, Swan Lake - and many more of your favourites!
Three enchanting evenings that will delight and entertain all the family.
CLASSICAL MOVIES MIGHTY MUSICALS LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS For more information, see: www.titchfieldfestivaltheatre..com
- Chester Choral Week 2025: 10-16 August
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Date Posted: Sun, 15 Jun 2025
We have an opportunity to take part in an annual residential adult summer school course, based at Chester University, from Sunday to Saturday, August 10-16th 2025.
The main concert will be held in the magnificent Chester Cathedral on Friday, 15th August and the course members, known as the North of England Festival Chorus, will perform ‘Mostly Mozart’, the Great Mass in C minor, Ave Verum Corpus and Haydn Te Deum.
As well as performing in the Cathedral, members will rehearse and perform a chamber choir repertoire concert ‘Choral Concord’ to be held at St Thomas’ Church opposite the University on Wednesday, 13th August.
Alongside this, there will be social evening activities, masterclasses and optional lessons, so lots to look forward to and enjoy!
For more information, see: www.ccweek.co.uk
- Local events, this weekend and next
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Date Posted: Fri, 9 May 2025
Two local events maybe of interest:
First, a Come and Sing Messiah, this Saturday, 10th May:
Second, Janine Stone would like to remind everyone that her garden at Manor Lodge in Botley will be open for charity the following weekend, as part of the National Open Gardens Scheme the following weekend, 17th and 18th May, and she would love to welcome you there, details in the attachment.
As ever, Jay
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- Our concert piece is second in Classic FM's Hall of Fame this year
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Date Posted: Tue, 22 Apr 2025
Karl Jenkins' "The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace" came second in this year's Classic FM Easter Weekend Hall of Fame this year.
Come and hear it at our concert on Saturday 3rd May!
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For more information, see: https://halloffame.classicfm.com/2025/
- Local Events - 29th March and 5th April
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Date Posted: Mon, 24 Mar 2025
LOCAL CONCERTS (See Music in Portsmouth at https://musicinportsmouth.co.uk/events/ for more events)
Portsmouth Choral Union - Portsmouth
Hampshire Police Male Voice Choir - Swanmore
- More local events, 29th March and 10th May
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Date Posted: Sat, 22 Feb 2025
A further two local events which may be of interest:
First, and very locally indeed, Come and Sing Handel's Messiah on 10th May in Lee on Solent:
and, in Winchester the Verdi Requiem with Winchester City Festival Choir.
Sat 29th March - £15 to include tea and coffee. Follow this LINK for tickets!
- Christmas jumper evening, 2024!
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Date Posted: Tue, 3 Dec 2024
We met to rehearse for our Christmas concert in seasonal clothing, and enjoyed some equally seasonal refreshments at half-time.
- Poster for Come and Sing, 6th July 2024
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Date Posted: Thu, 27 Jun 2024
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