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 exhilarating or like a cosy warm blanket. Come and discover how music touches you.
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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
Have you ever wondered how a composer goes about writing a piece for choir and orchestra? Do they start with a melody or go straight to the words? This is your opportunity to find out.
Our celebration concert programme for 21 June (see below) will include a brand-new piece commissioned by the choir from gifted Nottingham-born composer, Libby Croad. Her attractive work is fast winning her high acclaim. Libby wrote the splendid choral fanfare – Hail, Bright Cecilia – as an opening to the Nottingham Festival Chorus 40th Celebration Concert two years ago.
We are delighted to invite you to an open workshop on Sunday 11 May, 2.00-4.30pm at the Djanogly Rehearsal Hall, when Libby will be introducing and exploring her new piece with the choir and instrumentalists. Come along to observe or to sing with the choir and be part of the creative process.
The workshop is free to students and will be of particular interest to those studying composition and choral music.
Come and be part of a unique experience!
Contact us for further information: ncs@music-for-everyone.org
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Pop-Up 3 – Saturday 7 June 2025
Middle Street Resources Centre, Beeston, NG9 1GA
The venue is one of the locations on the Beeston Open Gardens trail. We will be singing there as part of the ‘Family Festival’ of music, games and stalls.
Concert – Saturday 21 June 2025, 7.30pm
St John the Baptist Church, Beeston, NG9 1EJ
40th Birthday Concert
Nottingham Chamber Singers
Nottingham Classical Players
Angela Kay, Rachel Parkes – conductors
This celebratory concert will feature pieces written especially for us – Antony le Fleming’s Everyone Sang, and a piece currently under commission from Libby Croad. 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.
The evening will end with birthday cake and bubbly!
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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:
2024/25 40th Anniversary Season
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.