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"One of the most substantial & formidable choirs in London ... a vigorous & sophisticated choral ensemble". Conducted by Daniel Mahoney. Our recording of Cecilia McDowall’s Da Vinci Requiem out now on the Signum label. http://www.wimbledon-choral.org.uk/

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We have a fab summer #concert for you #Wimbledon! We’re joined by Wimbledon High School chamber choir for #MassOfTheChildren by John Rutter & giving the world première of From: Gravity Archives, part of the exciting #LivingVoices project.
Sat 14 June 7pm 🎟 www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

23.05.2025 21:43 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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06.05.2025 06:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Exciting news for the #Coronation anniversary!

We’ve commissioned a new mass setting #CriticalMass from composer Tarik O’Regan created around his #Coronation #AgnusDei. We’ll perform the world premiere at Cadogan Hall London on 18 April 2026.

For more info: wimbledon-choral.org.uk/news_more.as...

06.05.2025 06:04 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 3
All the performers on stage at the end of the concert receiving applause

All the performers on stage at the end of the concert receiving applause

We’re still coming down from the high of last night’s concert! Huge thanks to scintillating City of London Sinfonia, @mrhigginsmusic.bsky.social, star soloists Angelina Dorlin-Barlow, April Fredrick, Ben Durant, Ed Grint, the audience & staff at Cadogan Hall. And our inspiring new MD Daniel Mahoney!

06.04.2025 09:49 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Don’t miss our fantastic spring #concert @cadoganhall on Saturday 5 April conducted by @dmahoneymusic with @CityLdnSinfonia, a huge choir and a stellar line-up of soloists cadoganhall.com/whats-on/wimbl… #Haydn #NelsonMass #choral #ClassicalMusic #DobrinkaTabakova

31.03.2025 17:04 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🎶 4 weeks to go! 🎶
On 29 March, 43 years since Carl Orff’s death, we perform his iconic Carmina Burana — powerful, wild, and unforgettable. Plus, Reena Esmail’s evocative This Love Between Us opens the concert. Don’t miss this thrilling night!
🎟️ Get tickets now from Bradford Theatres website 🎶

01.03.2025 19:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A lovely programme of penitential choral works from several centuries next Saturday in #Greenwich - Howells' profound and personal Requiem is the centrepiece. Join us in Hawksmoor's beautiful St Alfege church in central Greenwich: 730pm on Sat 8 March

Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/tts/thomas-t...

01.03.2025 17:32 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
The background image features a house in the midst of an isolated rural area. The Choir of the Earth logo is at the bottom centre. Above it, the text reads: No local choir? No problem! Finding a local choir can be a challenge if you live in a rural or remote area. Choir of the Earth brings the choir to you!  All you need is an internet connection. Join our free online taster week from Monday 3 March 2025 to see how high quality choral singing is only a click away. Visit choiroftheearth.com for more details. #DiscoverCOTE #OnlineChoir #ChoralSinging #Taster

The background image features a house in the midst of an isolated rural area. The Choir of the Earth logo is at the bottom centre. Above it, the text reads: No local choir? No problem! Finding a local choir can be a challenge if you live in a rural or remote area. Choir of the Earth brings the choir to you! All you need is an internet connection. Join our free online taster week from Monday 3 March 2025 to see how high quality choral singing is only a click away. Visit choiroftheearth.com for more details. #DiscoverCOTE #OnlineChoir #ChoralSinging #Taster

If there is no choir near you, let the choir come to you! Online choral singing lets you experience high-quality music-making from anywhere in the world - all you need is an internet connection.
See for yourself - drop into our free open rehearsals next week!
🎶 choiroftheearth.com/latest-news/...

02.03.2025 00:35 — 👍 15    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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Christian Tetzlaff cancels US tour in Trump administration protest Withdrawing from an eight-city tour, including an appearance at Carnegie Hall, in an interview the German violinist said: “I feel utter anger. I cannot go on with this feeling inside.”

Christian Tetzlaff cancels US tour in Trump administration protest
bachtrack.com/news-christi...

03.03.2025 13:06 — 👍 82    🔁 27    💬 3    📌 0
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Would you like to experience being part of a symphonic choir?

We're holding an Open Rehearsal Wed 19 March 7.30pm in Welwyn Garden City

This is your opportunity to sing with a highly respected classical choir

Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/hertfordshir...
#singing #whatsonherts #welwyngardencity

03.03.2025 13:57 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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"Bach Mass in B Minor with Dulwich Choral Society conducted by William Vann" at Southwark Cathedral Tickets are now available for Bach Mass in B Minor with Dulwich Choral Society conducted by William Vann at Southwark Cathedral, London on Sat 22 Mar 2025 at 7:00PM. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

Dulwich Choral Society 80th Anniversary concert Tickets now on sale
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lon...

13.01.2025 22:42 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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We're back this Wednesday for our first rehearsal of 2025, and it is our OPEN Rehearsal - come and give us a try!

Fast-paced rehearsals with choral experts, an exciting repertoire, a friendly welcome and great rehearsal and performance venues! @bradfordmusicscene.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk

14.01.2025 03:51 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Come & give your vocal chords a wonderful work out at our #ComeandSing workshop on Saturday 8 Feb in #Wimbledon. Led by Daniel Mahoney it’s a sociable and informal event, a not-to-be-missed chance to sing #Haydn’s Mass In Time Of War (Paukenmesse). Book now www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

14.01.2025 22:27 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Then in June we’re *super-excited* to be working with Russell Hepplewhite on his #LivingVoices project: 10 specially commissioned new poems set to music. We’ll be giving the world première of his setting of Gravity Archives by Sir Andrew Motion on Sat 14 June! Watch this space 👀

01.01.2025 15:40 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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And in February, you can give your vocal chords a wonderful work out at our #ComeandSing workshop on Saturday 8 Feb in #Wimbledon. Led by Daniel Mahoney it’s a sociable and informal chance to sing #Haydn’s Mass In Time Of War (Paukenmesse). Book now trybooking.com/uk/events/land…

01.01.2025 15:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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There’s *lots* to look forward to this year. Fans of #Haydn are in for a double treat! You can book now for our performance of the #NelsonMass on Saturday 5 April at Cadogan Hall with our brilliant friends the City of London Sinfonia, conducted by Daniel Mahoney cadoganhall.com/whats-on/wim...

01.01.2025 15:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Wishing all our lovely regular audience members, Friends and followers a very Happy New Year! Thank you for your enthusiasm and support in 2024 and we’re looking forward to a very exciting programme of gorgeous choral music-making in 2025 🎼🎉

01.01.2025 15:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Tickets are flying for our sparkling #Christmas concerts 🎶 on Saturday 14 Dec🎄With a 2 for 1 offer on children’s tickets and guest appearance by the Fairy Godmother🧚‍♀️ at the matinee performance it’s an unmissable part of #Wimbledon’s festive season⛄️ www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

29.11.2024 12:17 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Agree! We loved performing it several times.

05.12.2024 07:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We’ll be getting into the festive spirit at #ChristmasInTheVillage tomorrow! Come along & join in everyone’s favourite #carols Sunday at 3pm outside The Ivy in #Wimbledon Village 🎄🎶

30.11.2024 15:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Tickets are flying for our sparkling #Christmas concerts 🎶 on Saturday 14 Dec🎄With a 2 for 1 offer on children’s tickets and guest appearance by the Fairy Godmother🧚‍♀️ at the matinee performance it’s an unmissable part of #Wimbledon’s festive season⛄️ www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

29.11.2024 12:17 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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We are so excited to launch our Come and Sing Haydn's Nelson Mass Tour tomorrow at St George's Pimlico in London, led by the brilliant @benenglandbem.bsky.social, with accompaniment by Richard Gowers and solos by Fieri Consort. If you know the piece, why not join us? events.choiroftheearth.com/all

22.11.2024 19:48 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

You’re such an interesting person, I’d be delighted if you came over with a smile and introduced yourself and I could ask about being a journalist and my favourite carols!

21.11.2024 15:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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You can find out about our full 2024-25 season programme here, including our lovely Christmas concerts on 14 December and our Haydn Come &Sing workshop on 8 February: www.wimbledon-choral.org.uk/cms/upload_a...

21.11.2024 09:49 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We're looking forward to our carol concerts: 3pm and 7pm on Saturday 7 December at St Albans Cathedral.
Featuring Embassy Brass Ensemble and organist James McVinnie.
Retiring collection for Herts Young Homeless.
Tickets still available: www.stalbanscathedral.org/Event/christ...

#carols

20.11.2024 17:14 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Today at 5.30pm, @icchamberchoir.bsky.social sing evensong at Holy Trinity Prince Consort Rd. Music by current students Maria Portela and Owen Brook, plus Palestrina, Gibbons and Britten’s Hymn to St Cecilia. All welcome.

20.11.2024 09:20 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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A date for your 2025 diary! You’re warmly invited to our #ComeAndSing workshop on Saturday 8 Feb 10-4.30 in central #Wimbledon. Led by our MD Daniel Mahoney we’ll be exploring #Haydn’s wonderful Paukenmesse or Mass in Time of War. Booking now open: www.wimbledon-choral.org.uk/event_more.a...

20.11.2024 14:36 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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And we’re straight into Christmas rehearsals🎄🥳: a mix of traditional & gorgeous contemporary carols. So exciting to sing recent pieces by fab composers @owainpark.bsky.social Russell Hepplewhite @mrhigginsmusic.bsky.social Roxanna Panufnik James Burton Reena Esmail and *of course* Sir John Rutter!

19.11.2024 22:37 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

OPERA PEOPLE OF BLUESKY! I need your help spreading the word…

Applications for our Young Artist Programme at Waterperry Opera Festival are open, and the deadline is tomorrow (Tues 19) at 1700.

More details about the programme in thread, and info on how to apply at the below link.

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18.11.2024 13:51 — 👍 91    🔁 78    💬 2    📌 2

If anyone wants to join this, let me know! I’m sure there are new arrivals I’ve missed.

18.11.2024 19:33 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 8    📌 0

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