We are pleased to announce our May Day event will be returning for 2023. Collegium Singers will be performing in two sessions during the festivities. The event includes maypole dancing, Morris dancing, a craft fair and activities for the whole family. Everyone is welcome to join in with our maypole dancing led by Taunton Deane… Read More »May Day Celebration
The Wilbye Quartet Four voices got together during Covid restrictions and have continued singing since then, performing music both sacred and secular in the South West. Our programme for Spring 2023 is a survey of English Song spanning seven centuries, from Greensleeves and the first known round, through the Renaissance period to the late 19th… Read More »Lunchtime Concert – My Spirit Sang All Day
Collegium Singers June Concert – Here comes the Sun! Songs, ballads and madrigals to enhance a summer evening Musical Director - Elinor Cooper Saturday 10th June 2023 at 7.30 pm The Old Barn, Sheppy’s Cider Farm, Bradford-on-Tone, Taunton, Somerset, TA4 1ER https://www.sheppyscider.com/the-cider-farm/events/ Programme My spirit sang all day – Gerald Finzi Now is the month… Read More »Collegium Singers Summer Concert
West Somerset Singers are running a Singing Workshop 9.30am - 12.30am on Saturday 8th July in the Parish Centre, St Georges Church, Billet Street, Taunton, TA1 3NN. Registration is from 9.00am. In addition to working to improve our sound, we will be singing a mixture of styles of music, ancient and modern. Tickets £10 available… Read More »West Somerset Singers–Singing Workshop
Voce chamber choir present their summer concert, an exciting mix of choir all music from a wide range of genres.
Somerset Chamber Choir Richard Laing – Conductor Southern Sinfonia Simon Hogan – Organ & Celestra Katie Trethewey - Soprano Angus McPhee - Baritone Programme Details Requiem – Gabriel Fauré Organ Concerto – Francis Poulenc Salve Regina – Arvo Pärt Messe Breve- Yves Castagnet O Sacrum Convivium – Olivier Messiaen Jerusalem – Charles Gounod
Four hundred years after the death of William Byrd, we still delight in singing a huge number of his works. For him music was an entire language, telling of the religious changes through his lifetime as well as describing the lighter side of life. 1623 saw the passing of two other notable composers: Thomas Weelkes,… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects – A Choral Feast from 1623
An invitation singing event with a guest conductor
Somerset Voices Autumn Concert. Heavenly music including works by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Dove and Macmillan. Conductor: Graham Caldbeck Organist: Peter King (organist Emeritus at Bath Abbey).
Double choir Vespers of 1623 by Ignatio Donati with accompanying sackbuts, violins, organ and maybe even a cornetto or two! MD Gawain Glenton, assistant director Emily White, continuo Masumi Yamamoto.
