Do come and join us in the Shoreham Methodist Church on Saturday, 11 July at 3 pm for a wonderfully relaxing, summer afternoon concert. Our fifty-strong choir will take you on a musical journey through time, featuring choral classics from Fauré and Schubert to John Rutter and Bob Dylan. We welcome Christian Goursaud as guest …
Wow! Thrilling. Moving. Powerful. Beautiful.Just some of the comments we received after our concert last Saturday. After losing three of the four soloists originally booked due to illness, and with two vital participants stranded at Littlehampton Station as the afternoon rehearsal started, our MD, Lucia, carried on with sang froid and conjured up an unforgettable …
Another date for your diaries – 21 March at 7:30pm in St Mary de Haura, Church Street, Shoreham-by-Sea. We are singing Dvořák’s Stabat Mater. The BBC wrote this about the work:“The work stands as one of the towering monuments of choral music and was once one of the most popular works in the choral repertory.” …
We asked our lovely members to see if we could make the table groan with Christmas treats to donate to the Shoreham food bank. Well, they came up trumps. Not just one table, but three! This was our annual collection for the food bank and they specifically asked us for Christmas treats. We were happy …
We are all still buzzing from our successful benefit concert for St Mary’s last Saturday. If you missed it, (where were you?), here is a link to a recording on YouTube, courtesy of our lovely MD Lucia. However, our attention is now fully on our Christmas Concert. This will be a great start to the …
We will be performing 2 concerts this term. On Armistice Weekend (8th November), our 60-strong Shoreham Oratorio Choir will sing the iconic Fauré Requiem with professional soloists delivering the wonderful “Pie Jesu” and “Libera Me Domine”. This is a benefit concert for the venue, St Mary De Haura, Shoreham-by-Sea. Join us for an evening of …
Save the date for our summer concert! An afternoon of choral music featuring Byrd, Purcell, Wesley, Parry, Elgar and our very own Tim Nail. We will also be singing a selection of madrigals by Farmer, Bennet, Gibbons, Greaves, Jones, Morley and Weelkes. We are delighted to have Jordan Theis joining us as our guest conductor …
We had another fantastic concert on April 12th in St Mary de Haura. We were singing with a small chamber ensemble, and with the organ accompanying us for Gounod’s St Cecilia Mass. It makes such a difference to perform these kinds of pieces with an ensemble, even if just chamber. The soloists, Rose, Quito and …
… we have Dominic Felts joining us as the bass soloist. Dominic Felts is a Bass-Baritone from Lincolnshire and alumnus of Trinity Laban Conservatoire, graduating with Distinction from the Master of Music (Vocal Studies) programme in 2023. A versatile young singer, Dominic is equally at home performing solo in recital and oratorio, on stage in …
Quito Clothier is also joining us for the first time in our Easter Choral Concert. Quito Clothier is a tenor from Hampshire, England, currently working in London. He is currently a choral scholar at St-Martin-in-the-Fields and St. James’s Church, Piccadilly. Before that, he spent three years singing with the Choir of St. Luke’s, Chelsea under …