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Concerts and Events
Nottingham Chamber Singers, part of Music for Everyone, offers a varied programme of concerts in the Nottingham area throughout the year. The choir performs classical and contemporary music, both sacred and secular. They love to sing for an audience and hope to meet you at one of their performances.
“The concert was full of joy, and impressive energy. It was successfully ambitious and demonstrated the choir’s versatility.”
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Concert: Music of the Stars
Saturday 29 November, 7.30pm
St John’s Church, Mansfield Rd, Carrington, NG5 2DP
Music of the Stars
Nottingham Chamber Singers
Rachel Parkes – conductor
Angela Foan – pianist
Howells – Requiem
Parry – Songs of Farewell
McDowall – Music of the Stars
Bednall – Three Songs of Remembrance
Join the Nottingham Chamber Singers and be caught up in the music of the stars, choral pieces by some of Britain’s finest composers, evoking the mystery and vastness of the heavens. The works contemplate life and after-life through vibrant poetry set to sumptuous music.
Cecilia McDowall‘s three settings about the stars shimmer, fizz and delight whilst Parry’s Songs of Farewell open with the much-loved ‘My Soul there is a country far beyond the Stars’, the first of a set of beautifully contrasted and deeply touching pieces. To follow, three poems from the First World War feature in the luminous and eloquent setting, Songs of Remembrance, by contemporary composer, David Bednall. Our final piece, Howells’ Requiem (1932), is now recognised as one of the greats of the choral repertoire. With its hauntingly beautiful harmonies, it appeals to both singer and listener alike and places Howells as one of the brightest stars in the English choral scene for years to come.
There is a lit car park next to the church – entrance on Mansfield Road – and many buses stop nearby.
We always recommend booking in advance but tickets will be available on the door (subject to availability). Tickets can also be booked via the Music for Everyone office, Mon-Fri, 0115 958 9312. Online sales end 3.30pm on the Friday before the concert weekend.
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Dates for your diary
Season 41: December 2025 to July 2026
Sunday 14 December, 3.30pm – Christmas is Coming Concert with us, Vocals! and Nottingham Community Music, Albert Hall, NG1 5AA
Saturday 7 February, 7.30pm – Concert: we join the Nottingham Festival Chorus for a performance of Haydn’s Creation, Albert Hall, NG1 5AA
Saturday 25 April, 7.30pm – Nottingham Chamber Singers Concert:
To include Bruckner and Purcell, Church of St John the Baptist – Beeston Parish Church, NG9 1AA.
Sunday 12 July, 3.30pm – a Nottingham Chamber Singers summer concert with a difference! Grange Hall, Vicarage Lane, Radcliffe on Trent, NG12 2FB
What has the choir been up to?
We thought you might like to see the ‘discs’ we chose, arranged by decade when first performed:
We concluded our season with two wonderful events – a sell-out celebratory concert in Beeston Parish Church and a birthday party for the choir past and present! This was styled on Desert Island Discs and we were joined by our string-playing friends – they have performed many concerts with us over our forty years – and of course our wonderful accompanist, Ange Foan.
Our Desert Island Discs
1985 – 1995
Choir and Strings – Handel Dixit Dominus, first movement
Choir – Vaughan Williams The Lover’s Ghost
Choir – Pearsall Lay a Garland
1995 – 2005
Choir – Bach Motet – Singet dem Herrn
Strings – Elgar Serenade, third movement
Choir – Rachmaninov Bogoroditse dyevo
2005 – 2015
Choir and Strings – Mendelssohn Elijah ‘For he shall give his Angels charge over thee’
Choir – Pearsall Sir Patrick Spens
Strings – Bach Brandenburg Concerto no 3 – final movement
2015 – 2025
Choir – Whitacre Sleep
Choir, strings & piano – Gjeilo Across the vast Eternal Sky
Choir – Porter arr. Blackwell Let’s do it, let’s fall in love
Choir, strings & piano – Happy Birthday arr. Hall
Past Performances:
2024/25 40th Anniversary Season
Concert: Voices of Venice – Saturday 4 October, 5.00pm to 6.30pm, St Nic’s Church, Maid Marian Way, NG1 6AE
Concert – Saturday 21 June 2025, 7.30pm
St John the Baptist Church, Beeston, NG9 1EJ
Pop-Up 3 – Saturday 7 June 2025
High Road + Middle Street Resources Centre, Beeston, NG9 1GA
New Composition Choral Workshop – Sunday 11 May 2025, 2.00-4.30pm
Djanogly Rehearsal Hall, Department of Music, University Park Campus, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD
Concert – Saturday 29 March 2025, 7.30pm
St Peter’s Church, Ruddington, NG11 6HA
Concert – Sunday 8 December 2024, 3.30pm
St Mary Magdalene Church, Hucknall, NG15 7AS
Pop-Up 2 – Sunday 17 November 2024, around 12.45pm
John Godber Centre, Hucknall, NG15 7FQ
Concert – Saturday 12 October 2024, 7.30pm
St John’s Church, Carrington, NG5 2DP
Owing to a late change, the soprano soloist for the Brahms was Alison Rose.
Pop-Up 1 – Saturday 21 September 2024
Arnold, Sherwood, Carrington
2023/24 Season
Saturday 8 June 2024, 7.30pm
St Mary the Virgin Church, Bunny, NG11 6QT
Saturday 16 March 2024, 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Clifton Village, NG11 8NH
Saturday 2 December 2023, 7.30pm
St John’s Church, Mansfield Road, Carrington, NG5 2DP
Saturday 23 September 2023, 8.00pm
St Barnabas Cathedral, Derby Road, Nottingham
2022/23 Season
Sunday 16 July 2023, 1.30pm
Belton House, Grantham, NG32 2LS
Saturday 20 May 2023, 7.30pm
St John the Baptist Church, Beeston, Nottingham
Saturday 11 March 2023, 7.30pm
St Martin’s Church, Sherwood
Sunday 4 December 2022, 3.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Bunny
Saturday 24 September 2022 at 8.00pm
St Barnabas RC Cathedral, Derby Rd, Nottingham
2021/22 Season
Past Performances:
Saturday 9 July 2022 at 7.30pm
St Mary’s, Clifton
Music in Quiet Places
Saturday 5 March at 7.30pm
St Mary Magdalene Church, Hucknall NG15 7AS
Saturday 18 December 2021 at 7.30pm
St Mary the Virgin Church, Bunny NG11 6QT
A Mystical Christmas… a journey through Advent
Nottingham Chamber Singers
THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. MfE, along with the vicar and PCC of the church, feel that with the growing cases of the omicron variant of COVID 19, the risk of infection is too great for the concert to go ahead. Tickets already purchased will be refunded in full.
COVID Advice Sept – Dec 2021
We want everyone to feel safe at our concert. We would therefore recommend the following:
• If you have any COVID symptoms, please do not attend the event
• If practical, take a lateral flow test prior to attending
• Please wear a face covering whilst moving around the venue
NB There will be maximum ventilation in the venue and during the interval, audience members will be able to go outside to have a breath of fresh air.