Concerts
40th Anniversary Season –
September 2024 to July 2025
Founded in 1985, the Nottingham Chamber Singers, part of Music for Everyone, are excited to celebrate forty glorious years of choral music-making.
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We concluded our season with two wonderful events – a sell-out celebratory concert in Beeston Church and a birthday party! This took the form of a Desert Island Discs where 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.
We thought you might like to see the ‘discs’ we chose, arranged by decade when first performed:
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
Dates for your diary
Season 41: September 2025 to July 2026
2025
Saturday 4 October – Voices of Venice, St Nic’s Nottingham
Saturday 29 November – 7.30pm St John’s Carrington:
Howells – Requiem
Parry – Songs of Farewell
McDowall – Music of the Stars
Bednall – Three Songs of Remembrance
Sunday 14 December – Christmas is Coming, Albert Hall
2026
Saturday 7 February 2026 – with the Nottingham Festival Chorus,
Haydn – Creation, Albert Hall
Saturday 25 April – NCS concert
Sunday 4 July – an afternoon NCS concert
Voices of Venice – singing course and concert
Saturday 4 October, 9.30am to 6.30pm
Come and be part of an amazing choral experience performing a stunning concert with the Nottingham Chamber Singers and Nottingham Festival Chorus
St Nic’s Church, City Centre, Nottingham, NG1 6AE
Conductor: Alex Robinson
Chorus master: Rachel Parkes
Accompanist: Angela Foan
Walk the golden streets of Venice in our first Festival Chorus concert of the year, focusing on the music of two of Venice’s greatest exports – Monteverdi and Vivaldi. The Vivaldi Gloria is one of his most famous works and a real joy to sing. Experience the splendour of the high baroque era from Europe’s cultural jewel with strings and harpsichords ringing out in celebration.
In the concert, the Nottingham Chamber Singers perform a trio of wonderful works by Monteverdi and with the Festival Chorus, Vivaldi’s Gloria!
Friday 26th September, NTU Clifton, 7.00-9.00pm – a rehearsal with Rachel that’s included in the cost of the course. This is a great way to explore the music before the course.
To join in the fun of singing with others, book your place today:
Voices of Venice – Concert: St Nic’s Church, Maid Marian Way
Saturday 4 October, 5.00pm to 6.30pm
Nottingham Chamber Singers and Nottingham Festival Chorus
Conductors: Rachel Parkes, Alex Robinson
Accompanist: Angela Foan
Monteverdi and Vivaldi certainly knew how to compose toe-tapping and uplifting music, music that makes you smile and want to dance.
Come and enjoy a concert with the Nottingham Chamber Singers and the Nottingham Festival Chorus.
Programme:
Nottingham Chamber Singers: Monteverdi – Gloria, Beatus Vir, and Christe adoramus te
Nottingham Festival Chorus, including the Chamber Singers – Vivaldi – Gloria
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Past Performances:
2024/25 40th Anniversary Season
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
Djanolgy 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.