Choral

English Touring Opera

English Touring Opera
Cambridge Arts Theatre
Passion, jealousy and the destructive power of love: ETO return to Cambridge with opera at its most involving.

Tuesday 25, Thursday 27 and Friday 28 November:
La tragédie de Carmen by Bizet.

Sung in French with English surtitles

La tragédie de Carmen is opera at its most powerful, a raw and visceral adaptation of Bizet's most popular work. Peter Brook and his collaborators have crafted a concentrated night of theatre that focuses on the fatal relationships between the gypsy, soldier, village girl and bullfighter.

The score retains all of the most famous musical moments of the original; Carmen's ‘Habanera' and ‘Seguidilla', Don Jose's ‘Flower Song', and Escamillo's swaggering ‘Toreador Song'.


Wednesday 26 and Saturday 29 November
Rusalka by Dvořák -

Sung in English

She is the mermaid forbidden to mix with mortals. He is the handsome prince for whom she risks everything. Together they embark on a love affair that sees her sacrifice her home and her immortality. Dvorak's rapturous score, presented here in an acclaimed chamber version, is crowned by the poignant ‘Song to the Moon'.


Booking Info:
Book Online - www.cambridgeartstheatre.com or ring the box office - 01223 503333

Academy of Ancient Music and Choir

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Academy of Ancient Music and Choir
West Road Concert Hall Cambridge
Academy of Ancient Music and Choir with:
Richard Egar - Director and Harpsichord.
Wilke te Brummelstroete - Dido. Maarten Koningsberger - Aeneas. Lorna Anderson - Belinda. Giles Underwood - The Sorcerer.

Programme details:
C Gibbons - Not to us O Lord
C Gibbons - Above the Stars
C Gibbons - Fantasia in A
C Gibbons - The Lord Said unto my lord
Purcell - Dido and Aeneas

Booking information:
£14, £20, £27
Arts Theatre Box Office: 01223 503333

Hertfordshire Chorus

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Hertfordshire Chorus
West Road Concert Hall Cambridge
Hertfordshire Chorus:
Micaela Haslam - Soprano, Diana Moore - Mezzo-Soprano, James Oxley - Tenor, Grant Doyle - Bass, London Orchestra da Camera. David Temple - Conductor
Performance dates
Sat 11th October 2008, 7.30pm

Programme details:
Handel - Messiah

Booking information
£15, £12 (concessions), £5 (school children), Restricted View Seats £10 and £9 (concessions)

Cambridge Corn Exchange Box Office: 0123 357 851

Chorus Ticketline 0870 458 0445

tickets@hertfordshirechorus.org.uk

Singing and Supper Evening

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Singing and Supper Evening
The Lothbury Centre
A great way to have a fun evening with friends who like to sing, experienced singers and only-in-the-bath singers of all ages are welcome.

Sing simple songs from different cultural traditions, rich in harmony and rhythm. Everything will be taught by ear, so just bring your vocal cords and enjoy the sounds we make in this resonant space.

Rowena Whitehead is a Cambridge-based singer and community choir leader who has been running voice workshops since 1991. She is known for her engaging and relaxed approach, and is Musical Director of Talking in Tune and a founder member of the Natural Voice Practitioners' Network (www.naturalvoice.net)

Please feel free to bring food to share for supper half way through the evening.

Contact talkingintune@ntlworld.com for more information.

Mixed Voice Choir

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Mixed Voice Choir
Comberton Village College

Week 1 of a new mixed voice choir starting at Comberton.
This new choir for mixed voices seeks new members with a passion to sing.
Come prepared to explore, learn and have fun. Open to music sight-readers and non sight-readers.
The choir will be led by Anne L Ryan and will meet for 10 weeks on Wednesdays, and may work towards giving a public concert.
Contact Diana Cook Community Education, Comberton Village College, on 01223 264721 for more information. 

'MILTON AND MUSIC'

'MILTON AND MUSIC'
Emmanuel United Reformed Church
A FREE lunchtime concert featuring Cambridge Voices under the direction of Ian de Massini. They will be singing works by Tallis, Byrd, Messiaen and Haydn (Creation) and will also feature readings from Paradise lost, L'allegro and Il Penserosa.

Sing For Peace In Georgia

Sing For Peace In Georgia
St Edwards Church

Let's sing for the Peace in Georgia

 

Chela is a small Cambridge based choir who sing traditional, religious and folk songs of Georgia. As a demonstration of support and solidarity with the people of Georgia, Chela will ‘Sing for Peace in Georgia’ on Wednesday, 20 August at 6pm at St Edwards Church, Market Hill, Cambridge (behind the Guildhall). This will be a synchronized sing with choirs in Georgia, Turkey, Corsica, Brittany, Paris and London.

 

All are welcome.  A small collection for refugees and good causes in Georgia will be made.

 

The Georgian polyphony, listed on the Unesco World Heritage, is a thousand-year-old tradition of singing which accompanies the life of Georgians in joy and pain, in celebration and mourning. It is also the ferment of courage and solidarity that enabled Georgia to outlast the difficulties.

 

The conflict between Russia and Georgia claimed lots of lives during those last days. Whole populations were scattered. A flimsy agreement of a cease-fire was signed by both countries.

 

A Performance by the Cologne New Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra

A Performance by the Cologne New Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
Great St Marys Church

The Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra (Junge Philharmonie Köln) was founded in 1972.
Its membership is mainly composed of graduates of the most important German conservatories who, upon finishing their studies, wish to experience the reality of a practical musical life playing chamber music and symphonic repertoire at a high level before furthering their careers as soloists or as members of full-time professional orchestras.
In the last 34 years the CNPO Chamber Orchestra has given more than 10.000 concerts worldwide with different programs and varying formations.
In Germany, it has realized 25 Television Programs and made numerous recordings.
Since 1978 it has made itself well-known by its tours through most European countries, especially France, Great Britain and Spain, countries where it today enjoys the goodwill of numerous friends and admirers.

On the 21st July the Cologne New Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra will perform a number of popular pieces including:

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - "Summer"

Mozart - Concerto for Horn and Orchestra in E Flat Major KV 447

Mendelssohn - Music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Purcell - "Pavane et Chaconne" for String Orchestra

Pachelbel - "Canon" for 3 Violins and basso continuo

Cantate Youth Choir, Michael Kibblewhite - Music Director

Cantate Youth Choir, Michael Kibblewhite - Music Director
West Road Concert Hall Cambridge

Cantate is one of the UK's leading young choirs. It exists to encourage young people to sing a wide choral repertoire to the highest professional standards, and is renowned for exciting, dynamic performances and refined music-making. It draws its membership of over 180 young singers from more than 70 schools in the Cambridge, Essex, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire area. Cantate consists of three main choirs: the Training Choir for high voices from 8 years old; the Youth Choir of mixed voices from 13 to 16 years old; and the Senior Choir for singers from 15 to 19. In addition, there is a Chamber Choir of alumni, and a parents' and friends' choir - Amici Cantate. The choirs perform separately and together, both in their home area as well as in London, nationally and internationally. During the last year, Cantate has appeared on BBC's Songs of Praise three times. In November 2006, the Senior and Youth Choirs performed the world premiere in Cambridge of Bob Chilcott's Missa Cantate, and appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in the Schools Prom. In December, their London engagements included the Royal British Legion Christmas Celebration at Freemasons' Hall and Family Carols in St Paul's Cathedral. The Youth Choir toured Tuscany and Umbria in May 2007, and the Senior Choir performed 4 concerts to packed audiences around Lake Garda in July.

 

Cantate Youth Choir

Cantate Youth Choir
West Road Concert Hall Cambridge

Cantate is one of the UK's leading young choirs. It exists to encourage young people to sing a wide choral repertoire to the highest professional standards, and is renowned for exciting, dynamic performances and refined music-making.

It draws its membership of over 180 young singers from more than 70 schools in the Cambridge, Essex, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire area. Cantate consists of three main choirs: the Training Choir for high voices from 8 years old; the Youth Choir of mixed voices from 13 to 16 years old; and the Senior Choir for singers from 15 to 19. In addition, there is a Chamber Choir of alumni, and a parents' and friends' choir - Amici Cantate. The choirs perform separately and together, both in their home area as well as in London, nationally and internationally.

During the last year, Cantate has appeared on BBC's Songs of Praise three times. In November 2006, the Senior and Youth Choirs performed the world premiere in Cambridge of Bob Chilcott's Missa Cantate, and appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in the Schools Prom. In December, their London engagements included the Royal British Legion Christmas Celebration at Freemasons' Hall and Family Carols in St Paul's Cathedral. The Youth Choir toured Tuscany and Umbria in May 2007, and the Senior Choir performed 4 concerts to packed audiences around Lake Garda in July.

Booking Info:
Ticket Secretary: 01376 331 160
Email: tickets@cantate.co.uk 

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