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. Four concerts are planned, and pop-up performances will be coming to a suburb near you!
Our pop-up events will be short, free to attend and in unusual venues. We hope to show how the limitless variety of choral music can move singers and audiences to wonder, joy, peace, tears and laughter, how it can be thrilling or like a warm cosy blanket. Come and discover how music touches you, and let us know.
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Pop-Up 1 – Saturday 21 September 2024
Arnold, Sherwood, Carrington
Come and hear us at Arnold Sainsbury’s, 10.00am or at Sherwood Farmers Market, Sherwood United Reformed Church from around 11.30am.
We look forward to meeting you and to cheering your morning along with an uplifting variety of music. Perhaps you might then like to come to our St John’s Carrington concert, Saturday 12 October, 7.30pm.
Concert – Saturday 12 October 2024, 7.30pm
St John’s Church, Carrington, NG5 2DP
Come, Comfort of the World:
Songs of Hope and Consolation
Nottingham Chamber Singers
Rachel Parkes – conductor
Angela Foan, John Hobbs – piano
Abigail Barker – soprano
William Burn – baritone
This concert offers a rare opportunity to hear Brahms’ A German Requiem in the less often performed version for choir, soloists and piano duet. Brahms made this arrangement for the first London performance of the work in 1871. A smaller choir with piano brings out the nuances of consolation to be found in Brahms’ beautiful setting of the German requiem text.
The intimacy of a chamber performance also highlights the personal search for salvation in Bach’s intricate motet and captures the shifting colours of Reger’s comforting harmonies in his remarkable Romantic song for choir and solo baritone.
Here’s a movement from A German Requiem:
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Pop-Up 2 – Sunday 17 November 2024
John Godber Centre, Hucknall, NG15 7FQ
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Concert – Sunday 8 December 2024, 3.30pm
St Mary Magdalene Church, Hucknall, NG15 7AS
Stories of Christmas
Nottingham Chamber Singers
Angela Kay, Rachel Parkes – conductors
An entertaining afternoon Christmas concert with songs, stories and carols for all to enjoy. Featuring Benjamin Britten’s magical Ceremony of Carols and John Rutter’s delightful fable Brother Heinrich’s Christmas for choir, instruments and narrator.
Pop-Up 3 – Saturday 8 March 2025
Ruddington area
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Concert – Saturday 29 March 2025, 7.30pm
St Peter’s Church, Ruddington, NG11 6HA
Easter Images
Nottingham Chamber Singers
Angela Kay, Rachel Parkes – conductors
A rich sequence of outstanding choral and instrumental pieces linked by readings takes the listener on an atmospheric Easter journey.
Pop-Up 4 – Sunday 8 June 2025
Beeston area
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Concert – Saturday 21 June 2025, 7.30pm
St John the Baptist, Beeston, NG9 1EJ
40th Birthday Concert
Nottingham Chamber Singers
Nottingham Classical Players
Angela Kay, Rachel Parkes – conductors
This celebratory concert features pieces written especially for us – Antony le Fleming’s Everyone Sang, and a piece currently under commission. As part of the programme, the choir will also perform Bliss’s Pastoral (Lie strewn the White Flocks), a favourite of our founder and conductor, Angela Kay MBE.
Nottingham Chamber Singers is but one of many choirs within Music for Everyone. See the MfE website for details of other choral and instrumental opportunities open to adults or young people.
Past Performances:
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.