Wells, Somerset
Have you got your tickets yet? It’s less than two weeks until our summer concert. Rehearsals have flown by, and the choir is raring to go. Join us for Handel’s energising ‘Dixit Dominus’ with companion pieces by Buxtehude and Purcell. Doors will open at St Cuthbert’s Church in Wells for a 7.30 start, next Saturday 5th July.
Tickets are available on the door, or from our Trybooking page – Click here
Tickets are now on sale for our concert on 3 May at St Thomas’ church in Wells. With music by composers from Stanford to Tavener, Holst to Esenvalds, this fascinating programme will explore the lands conquered by Alexander the Great. Tickets are available from our Trybooking page, Click Here to book.
Alexander the Great lived for only 33 years yet, from the age of 20 when he succeeded his father Philip II to the throne of the ancient kingdom of Macedon in 336BC, he expanded his empire further and further east until it stretched from the Mediterranean into India. As a pupil of Aristotle, Alexander was a cultured man as well as a warrior and our programme follows his campaigns from modern Greece, through Persia to India through settings of words by the earliest known female poet Sappho (a world premiere from Jonathan Lane entitled Sappho Fragments), the Greek Orthodox nun Mother Thekla, portions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore and the sacred Hindu text the Rig Veda.
Composers include John Tavener, Gustav Holst, Andrew Gant and Charles Stanford and the whole programme weaves a fascinating musical path following in Alexander’s footsteps.
Advance booking opens 1 March, tickets £10.
Featuring music from our summer 2024 concert, join us for a choral pilgrimage from England, France, the Basque Country and Portugal to Santiago de Compostela including music by Victoria, Lobo, Philips, Vivanco and Debussy. Tickets are available via Eventbrite, click here.
The Musical Roads to Compostela is a benefit concert for Evolve Music. Evolve Music provides inclusive music services to communities across the South West, and professional development for musicians and educators nationally.
We’re delighted to be joining our friends at Cappella Nova to showcase music by Fanny Hensel (Mendelssohn) and Clara Schumann alongside their brother and husband and to bring their stories into the foreground. Both extremely skilled composers and performers, their music deserves to be much better known. Do come along and discover their music.
Tickets are now on sale for our next concert – The Musical Roads to Compostela at St John’s Church in Frome on Sunday 7 July. They’re available to buy in person at the Cheese and Grain in Frome, on the Frome Festival website or by scanning the QR code on the poster.
