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Next concert: English Choral Music
We are looking forward to our programme of English choral music in March which features Hubert Parry’s setting of psalm 122, I Was Glad, sung at every coronation since that of Edward VII for which it was composed and familiar to many from 2011’s royal wedding. Another item with a royal connection is William Walton’s Te Deum, written for the coronation of Elizabeth II which makes it a particularly appropriate piece for the year of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The programme is completed with works by two modern masters: John Rutter’s Gloria and Bob Chilcott’s Requiem. The Parry, Walton and Rutter will also be performed earlier at Guildford Cathedral as part of the centenary celebrations of King’s College Junior School, Wimbledon.
Vacancy for conductor
Epsom Chamber Choir is seeking to appoint a new Conductor with effect from September 2012, as our current MD, Michael Stevenson, is stepping down after more than 20 years in the role. Full details of the vacancy are here.
Do you sing bass?
Right now we are recruiting basses, particularly second basses, although vacancies in all voice parts do arise from time to time. If you are interested in auditioning for the choir, have choral experience and a good level of sight-reading, please contact Dick Bacon on 01372 373644.
‘Bring and Sing’ collection
Our ‘Bring and Sing’ open rehearsal and informal performance of Rossini’s ‘Petite Messe Solennelle’ in June raised £543.10 for The Children’s Trust, Tadworth. Many thanks and ‘Well done’ to all those who took part.
ABOUT THE CHOIR
We are a choir of about 35 voices based in Epsom, Surrey where we give at least six major concerts each year, mostly in St Martin’s Church.
We sing music by composers as different as ‘Fats’ Waller and Arvo Pärt and pieces that have just been written as well as the classics.
Each year at Christmas we help the National Trust to raise funds at Clandon Park and from time to time we sing Evensong in cathedrals such as St Paul’s, Winchester, Southwark, Ely and, most recently, St Alban’s in May 2009.
We also tour abroad. In May 2010 we visited Brussels where we sang in the Cathedral of Saint Michael and Saint Gudula and the Church of Notre Dame of Laken.
The choir has won Enterprise Awards on three occasions from the Performing Right Society. Epsom Chamber Choir, which was formed in 1969, is a Registered Charity number 1026721 and is affiliated to Making Music.
We belong to gerontius.net the website for choirs. Search gerontius.net for choirs or concerts in the Kingston-on-Thames (KT) post code area. We also advertise our concerts on www.wherecanwego.com’s What’s On Guide and concert-diary.com.
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