Kingston Orpheus Choir and Endelienta Baroque perform this ever-popular work, with period instruments used.
Tickets: Adults £18; concessions £16; students £6; under-18s free.
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Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem – Kingston Orpheus Choir
Douglas Tang– Piano
David Condry– Conductor
TICKETS
Adults £14
Concessions £12
Students £6
Under 18s free
Available on the door and in advance from: orpheustickets@hotmail.com or 020 8336 1311
Verdi Requiem – Kingston Orpheus Choir
The Combined Choirs of Blackheath & Bramley Choral Society and Kingston Orpheus Choir with the Chameleon Arts Orchestra.
Elizabeth Weisberg: Soprano
Carris Jones: Mezzo-Soprano
Richard Dowling: Tenor
Edward Grint: Bass
David Condry: Director
Tickets
- Front nave £20 (12-18/Students £9)
- Rear nave £15 (12-18/Students £6)
- Under 12s free
Available from
boxoffice.bbcs@gmail.com or orpheustickets@hotmail.com
Guildford Tourist Information Centre: 155 High Street 01483 444334
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Kingston Orpheus Choir – Handel’s Messiah
Kingston Orpheus Choir invites you to prepare for Christmas by joining them for this favourite work. Using scriptural texts selected by Charles Jennens, Handel composed the work in only a few weeks in 1741.
David Condry – conductor
Douglas Tang – organ
Eleanor Gregory – soprano
Helena Condry – alto
Richard Dowling – tenor
Colin Campbell – bass
Tickets
Adults £14
Concessions £12
Students/unwaged £6
Under 18s free
Available on the door and in advance:
Email: orpheustickets@hotmail.com
Box office: 020 8336 1311
Please note that we will take your order and reserve your tickets, and request that you pay in cash or with a cheque at the concert. Thank you.
Open Rehearsal – Handel / Messiah
Kingston Orpheus Choir invites you to join in an open rehearsal (sing along or listen), as they prepare for their Christmas concert of Handel’s Messiah. Copies will be available but if you have a vocal score of Messiah, please bring it with you.
New members are accepted to the choir without audition – and you can “try them out” (free of charge) for 4 weeks.
Admission free.
www.kingstonorpheuschoir.com
Muic from the ’20s and ’30s – Kingston Orpheus Choir
Music from the ’20s and ’30s
With songs by George Gershwin, Cole Porter & Jerome Kern
Director David Condry
Organist Seb Gillot
TICKETS
Adults £14 Concessions £12 Students £6 Under 18s free
Available on the door and in advance from: orpheustickets@hotmail.com ● 020 8336 1311
Kingston Orpheus Choir – Haydn “Nelson” Mass
Haydn “Nelson” Mass, and Handel Chandos anthem “Let God arise” with organ music by Handel and Mendelssohn.
Start at 7.30 at St Andrew’s church, Maple Road, Surbiton. (9.30 finish).
Tickets Adults £14, Concessions £12, Students £6, Under 18’s free.
On the door or in advance from orpheustickets@hotmail.com or 020 8336 1311 or via KA website.
Conductor David Condry
Organist Seb Gillot.
Kingston Orpheus Choir – St John Passion
Kingston Orpheus Choir and Kingston Orpheus Baroque Players perform St John Passion by J.S. Bach at St. Andrews Church Surbiton.
Johann Sebastian Bach, (1685 to 1750), was born in Eisenach, the capital of the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach, at the centre of today’s Germany. The son of the director of the town’s musicians, he was orphaned by the age of 10 and went to live with his organist eldest brother. Awarded a choral scholarship at 14, Bach studied in at the prestigious St Michael’s School in Lüneburg.
Bach’s St John Passion was first performed in 1724 at Leipzig in his first year as director of music. At this time the idea of performing story of Christ’s Passion to music was new. This work, performed in German by the Kingston Orpheus Choir, demonstrates J.S.Bach’s brilliant talent.
Evangelist : Simon Wall
Christus: Jonathan Brown
Pilatus: Andrew Mahon
Soprano: Rosemary Galton
Alto: Helena Culliney
Tenor: David Condry
Box office: 020 8336 1311
orpheustickets@hotmail.co.uk
Open rehearsal – Kingston Orpheus Choir
Kingston Orpheus Choir is rehearsing a programme of music by Vaughan Williams for its concert in December. You are invited to come and listen to the rehearsal to see whether you like the way they rehearse and whether the Orpheus is a choir you would consider joining. New members accepted without audition.
Plenty of free parking adjacent to the Church
Kingston Orpheus Choir presents ‘Feel the Spirit’
Kingston
Orpheus Choir
‘Feel the Spirit’
by John Rutter
and further works by American composers:
Whitacre – ‘This Marriage’, ‘Sleep’
Lauridsen – ‘O Magnum Mysterium’
Helena Culliney – mezzo-soprano
John Longstaff – organ
Directed by David Condry
Kingston Orpheus Choir – Anthems and Cantatas for Passiontide
Anthems and Cantatas for Passiontide including “The Crucifixion” by Stainer and “The Saviour” by Lloyd Webber.
Kingston Orpheus Choir – Petite Messe Solennelle by Rossini
Gioachino Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle was written in 1863 and described by the composer as “the last of my péchés de vieillesse” (sins of old age).
This refined and elegant piece, will be conducted by the young dynamic Professional Musician David Condry and sung by the Orpheus choir. Join this amazing choir for a night of great music. For more information and for Tickets please email the following:
orpheustickets@hotmail.co.uk
Kingston Orpheus Choir
We rehearse for three concerts each year with recent concerts including works by Vivaldi, Rutter, Bach and Haydn. We welcome all who would like to sing and encourage those who haven’t sung before. Meets Wednesdays, 8.00pm to 10.00pm at St John’s Church, Grove Lane, Kingston (behind the University at Penryhn Road).
Contact – Barbara Duffy
Telephone: 020 8336 1311
Email: barbaraduffy53@hotmail.com
Website: www.kingstonorpheuschoir.com
Kingston Orpheus Choir – J.S. Bach Christmas Oratorio
Kingston’s oldest choral society, Kingston Orpheus Choir prepares you for the Christmas season with this concert. The work belongs to ...
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Kingston Orpheus Choir – 70th anniversary
The Kingston Orpheus Choir is now in its seventieth year and have a small display at Kingston Museum (until the end of July) in their Community Showcase, exhibiting programmes and posters dating back as far as 1944 as well as portraits of their musical directors and photos of the choir in years gone by.
The Choir was formed in 1944 following an appeal for singers in the Comet and held their first meeting on 20th March 1944 at the Zeeta Café in Clarence Street (where John Lewis is now) attended by 35 people. Their first concert was a Christmas Carol concert in December 1944 to raise funds for the Army Benevolent Fund.
The choir has had only four musical directors in seventy years: George Anderson (1944 to 1981), Susan Higgins (1981 to 2007), Ben Palmer (2007 to 2012) and local man David Condry (2012 to present).
The choir has performed at many venues around the borough including All Saints Church and the Empire Theatre in Kingston and more recently at their preferred concert venue St Andrew’s Church in Maple Road, Surbiton. The choir has performed all the major choral works including Handel’s Messiah, Mendelsohnn’s Elijah, Brahm’s Requiem and Fauré’s Requiem, many times over during the seventy years, but has also found time to perform opera choruses, show tunes and even Abba’s greatest hits.
The choir met on Wednesday evenings for rehearsals in the 1940’s and continues to do so in 2014. The Orpheus now has around fifty singers (17 sopranos, 20 altos, 5 tenors and 8 basses) ranging in age from their 20’s to 70’s.
Kingston Orpheus Choir operates as a charity and are grateful for the financial support of the Humphrey Richardson Taylor Charitable Trust.
Kingston Orpheus Choir is always delighted to hear from prospective members. There is no audition – just come along to one of their rehearsals. The ability to read music is desirable, but by no means essential. A love of music and a desire to learn and to sing is enough. Rehearsals are held from 8.00-10.00pm on Wednesdays at St John the Evangelist Church, Springfield Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT1 2SB. You can find out more about Kingston Orpheus Choir on their website www.kingstonorpheuschoir.com
If you are interested in joining Kingston Orpheus Choir please contact the secretary Barbara Duffy.
