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Kingston Choral Society Spring Concert

January 10, 2020 By Anthony Kelly Leave a Comment

Kingston Choral Society sing Handel and Bach
Handel – Coronation Anthems
Bach – Magnificat
In a scintillating evening of Baroque music, we contrast the virtuosity of Bach’s Magnificat with the opulent splendour of Handel’s Coronation Anthems – including the famous Zadok the Priest. For this musical feast, KCS is joined by an exciting quintet of young soloists from the Royal College of Music, and the superb period-instrument musicians of the Purcell Orchestra.
Sopranos: Charlotte Bowden, Stephanie Hershaw
Alto: Emily Sierra
Tenor: Matthew Keighley
Bass: Edward Jowle
With the Purcell Orchestra
Conductor: Andrew Griffiths
KCS gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Josephine Baker Trust for the soloists in this concert.
Tickets
Adults: £16
Concessions: £14
Under 18s & full-time students: £8
Box Office
07770 932912
Online
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/select/quNlYRPgCOLU
(Booking fee applies)

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Kingston Choral Society Autumn Concert

September 18, 2019 By Anthony Kelly Leave a Comment

Mendelssohn: St Paul
The popularity of Elijah has too long obscured Mendelssohn’s enchanting St Paul, which tells the story of the conversion of St Paul in a sequence of dazzling choruses and meltingly lovely arias. Three rising stars of the opera world join KCS as we reveal the drama and beauty of this unjustly neglected score.
Anna Patalong (soprano)
Alexander Sprague (tenor)
Thomas Faulkner (bass)

Open Rehearsal 2.30-4pm

Tickets
Adults: £16
Concessions: £14
Under 18s and full-time students: £8

Online
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/select/aFjuOycUhGnM
(Booking fee applies)
Box Office
07770 932912

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Kingston Choral Society Summer Concert – The Power of Song

May 7, 2019 By Anthony Kelly Leave a Comment

Duruflé: Requiem
Bruch: Die Macht des Gesanges
Tavener: Svyati
Vierne: Les Angélus

This fascinating programme brings together works from three very different traditions. Duruflé’s love of Gregorian plainchant shines through his understated, achingly lyrical Requiem mass, which will be performed alongside his friend Vierne’s enchanting songs for mezzo-soprano and organ. John Tavener’s Svyati for choir and cello, written in memory of a friend, draws movingly on the colour and tradition of the Russian Orthodox church. Finally, The Power of Song by Max Bruch, is an impassioned, Romantic hymn to the quasi-religious power of music itself.

Mezzo-soprano: Jessica Gillingwater
Baritone: Gareth Brynmor John
Organ: James Orford
Cello: Clare O’Connell
Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

Tickets
Adults: £13
Concessions: £11
Under 18s and full-time students: £5

Online
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/select/daecosbhfYJQ
(Booking fee applies)
Box Office
07770 932912

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Christmas Concert – On Christmas Night

October 10, 2018 By Anthony Kelly Leave a Comment

Bob Chilcott’s enchanting sequence On Christmas Night forms the centrepiece of Kingston Choral Society’s Christmas concert, alongside traditional carols for all to sing, a delicious selection of familiar and less familiar festive music, and a formidable quantity of mince pies!
Organ: Will Vann; Conductor: Andrew Griffiths
Tickets:
Adults: £13, Concessions: £11, Under 18s: £5,
Box Office: 020 8977 7936

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Kingston Choral Society – Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem

October 10, 2018 By Anthony Kelly Leave a Comment

Kingston Choral Society performs Brahms’ A German Requiem: a highly personal work, a humanist Requiem, focused not on judgement of the dead but on solace for those left behind, full of tenderness, comfort, and music of the most transcendent beauty. It is paired with the rarely-performed Elegiac Ode by Stanford, a highly attractive work by one of Brahms’ most ardent disciples. The soloists are amongst the finest young singers working in Britain today.

Soprano: Anita Watson, Baritone: Dominic Sedgwick, with Thames Sinfonia
Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

Tickets
Adults: £15, Concessions: £13, Under 18s: £5
Box Office: 020 8977 7936
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Kingston Choral Society – Spring Concert

February 1, 2018 By Anthony Kelly Leave a Comment

Saturday 24 March 2018, 7:30pm at Cadogan Hall

Bach: Mass in B Minor

Kingston Choral Society is thrilled to return to Cadogan Hall, alongside a superb quartet of soloists and the period instruments of The Purcell Orchestra, to perform perhaps the greatest piece of choral music ever written: J.S. Bach’s mighty Mass in B Minor. Intended as compendium of everything that Bach had achieved in his lifetime, it contains music of every kind: majestic, overwhelming choruses, magnificent fugues, and arias of heart-rending beauty.

Anna Devin Soprano
Katie Bray Alto
Nick Pritchard Tenor
Dingle Yandell Bass

With The Purcell Orchestra
Andrew Griffiths Conductor

Anna Devin has performed on some of the world’s great stages, including The Royal Opera, La Scala Milan, Teatro Reale Madrid, the BBC Proms and Carnegie Hall.

Katie Bray sings regularly for Opera North, English National Opera and English Touring Opera, and makes her debut with Welsh National Opera this season.

Nick Pritchard makes his Royal Opera House debut this season in Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses, and has sung for Opera North, Opera Holland Park, English Touring Opera and the Aldeburgh Festival.

Dingle Yandell makes his debut with Scottish Opera this season, and has sung for Garsington, Bach Collegium Japan, Arcangelo, Gabrieli Consort, Early Opera Company. He is currently an Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ‘Rising Star’.

Tickets are £13 – £30 and are available from the Cadogan Hall Box Office (020 7730 4500) and www.cadoganhall.com

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A Winter’s Night: Carols Old and New

October 28, 2017 By Anthony Kelly Leave a Comment

16 December 2017, 7:30pm at St Andrew’s Church, Surbiton

Cecilia McDowall’s festive cantata, ‘A Winter’s Tale’, is presented by Kingston Choral Society.
There will also be traditional carols for everyone to enjoy, a selection of Christmas music from Baroque to present day, and plenty of mince pies.
William Vann – organ
Conducted by Andrew Griffiths.
Open Rehearsal 2.30pm
£13 (full price) £11 (concessions) £5 (under 18s)
Box Office: 020 8977 4801
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(booking fee applies)

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Kingston Choral Society – Haydn The Seasons

February 17, 2017 By Anthony Kelly Leave a Comment

Tickets: £5 – £15 from 020 8977 4801, www.kingstonchoralsociety.org.uk, or at the door.

Aoife Miskelly Soprano
Benjamin Hulett Tenor
Robert Davies Bass
with Thames Sinfonia
Andrew Griffiths Conductor

Every bit the equal of The Creation, Haydn’s final oratorio, The Seasons, is overflowing with invention and originality, celebrating the natural world in all its magnificence. Full of wit, energy and the most vivid wordpainting – everything from the croaking of frogs to the fog of Winter – this marvellous score demands to be better known.

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Kingston Choral Society – A Light in the Stable

December 13, 2016 By Anthony Kelly

KCS presents Alan Bullard’s festive cantata, A Light in the Stable. There will also be carols for the audience to sing, plus plenty of mince pies to add to the seasonal cheer!

Open rehearsal 2:30pm

William Vann Organ
Andrew Griffiths Conductor

Tickets

Adults: £13
Concessions: £11
Under 18’s: £5

Available from
Box Office 020 8977 4801
Online www.kingstonchoralsociety.org.uk
(booking fee applies) or at the door

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Kingston Choral Society Autumn Concert – Sweet Thames Run Softly

October 15, 2016 By Anthony Kelly Leave a Comment

Vaughan Williams, Dyson and Chilcott
Kingston Choral Society offers a feast of English music: an early masterpiece Toward the Unknown Region by Vaughan Williams and a wonderful, haunting Requiem by ex-King’s Singer Bob Chilcott frame a delicious rarity: George Dyson’s glorious vision of an Elizabethan pageant, Sweet Thames, Run
Softly, performed just a few hundred metres from the river.
Jennifer Davis Soprano
Nicholas Mulroy Tenor
Gareth Brynmor John Baritone
Thames Sinfonia
Andrew Griffiths Conductor

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Kingston Choral Society – Handel’s Solomon

April 13, 2016 By Anthony Kelly Leave a Comment

To close its season, KCS is joined by the Purcell Orchestra and some of Britain’s finest young Handel singers for the superb oratorio Solomon. The story of the great Old Testament king is told in a dazzlingly inventive stream of rousing choruses and ravishing arias, climaxing in the celebrated ‘Arrival of the Queen of Sheba’.

Soloists

Anna Devin – Soprano

Máire Flavin – Soprano

James Laing – Countertenor

Anthony Gregory – Tenor

Purcell Orchestra

Andrew Griffiths – Conductor

TICKETS Adults £15 Concessions £13 Under 18s £5

AVAILABLE FROM Box Office 020 8977 4801
Online via Ticketsource (booking fee applies) or at the door.

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Kingston Choral Society – Let us Garlands Bring: A Musical Celebration of Shakespeare

January 5, 2016 By Anthony Kelly Leave a Comment

Saturday 5 March 2016 7.30pm

KCS marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with a deliciously varied programme of Shakespearean music. Vaughan Williams’ cantata based on The Merry Wives of Windsor and Finzi’s exquisite Shakespeare songs rub shoulders with a fascinating tribute by the eighteenth-century composer Thomas Linley and the seductive Songs and Sonnets by jazz pianist George Shearing.

Open Rehearsal 2.30p.m at St Andrew’s Church, Maple Road, Surbiton KT6 4DS

Thomas Linley Jnr: Shakespeare Ode (excerpts)
Vaughan Williams: In Windsor Forest
Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring
George Shearing: Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare

Baritone: Marcus Farnsworth
Piano: Leanne Singh-Levett

Box Office:

Tel. 020 89774801

0r book online here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk (booking fee applies)

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Kingston Choral Society – Christmas Concert

August 31, 2015 By Anthony Kelly Leave a Comment

O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Music for the Advent season, with carols for all to join in, and plenty of mince pies!

Organ: William Vann

Tickets
Adults: £13
Concessions: £11
Under 18s: £5

Box Office
020 8977 4801

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Kingston Choral Society – Autumn Concert

August 31, 2015 By Anthony Kelly Leave a Comment

Haydn Harmoniemesse and Beethoven Mass in C

For the first concert in its 2015-16 season, KCS contrasts two beautiful masses commissioned by the same patron, Prince Nikolaus of Esterházy. Freshness and originality abound in these delightful works, full of melodic invention and orchestral colour.

With Thames Sinfonia and
Anita Watson: Soprano
Katie Bray: Alto
Nick Pritchard: Tenor
Ashley Riches: Bass

Tickets
Adults: £15
Concessions: £13
Under 18s: £5

Box Office
020 8977 4801

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Kingston Choral Society present TILL THE BOYS COME HOME in collaboration with the Kingston Choral Society in Ontario Canada

May 3, 2015 By Gia Borg Darcy Leave a Comment

Canadian and UK Kingston Choral Societies Collaborate in Song!

One hundred years ago in February 1915 the first contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force landed in France, after training in England. Many would never see home again.

Kingston Choral Society is proud to have been asked to participate in the 100th anniversary musical tribute to Canadians who served their King and Country in the Great War 1914 – 1918, one hundred years ago in February 1915. This concert will be the last in the European tour of Kingston Choral Society, Ontario, Canada and North Lakeshore Chorus.

The Canadian choir will leave Toronto on June 27th to travel to commemorative sites in England, France and Belgium. They will be singing at various locations including Canterbury Cathedral, the Menin Gate in Ypres and cemetery concerts at Passchendaele.

Our joint concert at Kingston Parish Church on July 10th at 7.30p.m. will be an evening of musical treats, history and emotion with a wide range of popular songs from 1914 and 1915. You will be guaranteed plenty of old favourites such as “Roses of Picardy”,  “Tipperary”, “Pack Up Your Troubles” as well as others better known to the Canadian contingent such as “O Canada” and “Farewell to Nova Scotia”. The concert will be conducted by Ian Juby, Music Director of the Canadian Kingston Choral Society with Jacqueline Mokrzewski & Charles Willett on the piano.

Tickets:

Available at the door on the evening of the concert

For advance tickets visit www.kingstonchoralsociety.org.uk [booking fee applies] Adults £13; Concessions £11; Under 18s £5

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Kingston Choral Society with Londinium and Thames Sinfonia present Verdi’s Requiem

May 1, 2015 By Gia Borg Darcy

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VERDI – REQUIEM

SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2015, 7.30PM

Rachel Nicholls – Soprano
Jennifer Johnston  – Mezzo
Andrew Staples – Tenor
David Soar  – Bass

Kingston Choral Society with Londinium and Thames Sinfonia

Andrew Griffiths – Conductor

Tickets
Adults: £28 / £24 / £18 / £15
Concessions: £24 / £20 / £16 / £13

Available from:
Cadogan Hall Box Office on 020 7730 4500
Online at www.cadoganhall.com
(booking fees apply) or at the door

Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ

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KCS – Songs of the Fleet

February 8, 2015 By Anthony Kelly

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Kingston Choral Society – Christmas Concert – 2014

September 30, 2014 By Anthony Kelly Leave a Comment

Our Christmas concert of English and German music explores the extraordinary story of the 1914 Christmas truce, and will include readings from soldiers’ letters and carols for everyone to sing.
Tickets
Adults: £13
Concessions: £11
Under 18s: £5

Box Office
020 8977 4801
www.kingstonchoralsociety.org.uk

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Kingston Choral Society Autumn Concert

September 30, 2014 By Anthony Kelly Leave a Comment

Crossing the Lines: Remembering the Great War
Holst : Ode to Death
Ravel : Le Tombeau de Couperin
Brahms : Nänie
Fauré : Requiem

With Susanna Hurrell (soprano) and Gareth Brynmor John (baritone), winner of the 2013 Kathleen Ferrier Award, and the Thames Sinfonia

Conductor: Andrew Griffiths

Tickets
Adults: £15
Concessions: £13
Under 18s: £5

Box Office
020 8977 4801

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Kingston Choral Society

September 20, 2014 By Anthony Kelly

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Kingston Choral Society is a mixed voice choir with about 120 members. It puts on three or four concerts a year, two of them with professional orchestra and soloists. We cover a wide range of the classical repertoire, both established favourites and less familiar works. New members are welcome. Rehearsals are on Thursday evenings from 8.00pm to 10.00pm in the main hall at Hollyfield School in Surbiton. If you would like to join come along on a Thursday and try the choir out. There is a simple voice test – nothing too terrifying.

Contact – Chris Johns

Telephone: 020 8942 7203
Email: info@kingstonchoralsociety.org.uk
Website: www.kingstonchoralsociety.org.uk

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Our next concert is on 28th March in St Andrew’s Church, Surbiton at 7pm. We will be singing Bach’s “St Matthew Passion” – a work especially suited for Easter. Conducted by Joel Newsome-Hubbard and featuring 6 soloists, two choirs and The Noxwode Ensemble playing period instruments. Tickets £15 (students £7.50). Visit http://www.emberchoral.org.uk f…[Read more]

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The wonderful Wilful Choir starts back Monday Jan 6th
Come and try us out for free!
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