Concerts and Events – Come to our Christmas concerts!
Carols by Candlelight
Wednesday 19th December 2018, 7:30pm
The Chapter House, York Minster
Director: Benjamin Morris
The Chapter House Choir performs its trademark traditional Carols by Candlelight with The Handbell Ringers of the Chapter House Choir. Patrons are offered early booking. A limited number of tickets then go on sale to the general public on Friday 21 September, so be sure to book early.
Tickets – £20 (no concessions) from York Minster Box Office.
Mirabile Mysterium
Friday 21st December 2018, 7:30pm
St Michael-le-Belfrey Church, York
Director: Benjamin Morris
Chapter House Youth Choir Director: Charlie Gower-Smith
Celebrate the festive season with carols old and new! The Chapter House Choir will perform alongside the Chapter House Youth Choir and The Handbell Ringers of the Chapter House Choir.
Tickets – £15 and £13.50 concessions, Students / under 18s – £5. Available from York Theatre Royal from mid October 2018.
Dates for your Diary
Under the Shadow of his Wing
Saturday 23rd March 2019, 7:30pm
St Olave’s Church, York
Director: Benjamin Morris
This concert will comprise a complete performance of Jonathan Rathbone’s Under the Shadow of His Wing, an extended setting of the service of Vespers. The work was premièred by the Vasari Singers in October 2014 at St Alban’s Church Holborn to a rapturous reception.
Tickets – £15 and £13.50 concessions, Students / under 18s – £5. Available from York Theatre Royal.
Sounds of Summer
Saturday 22 June 2019, 7:30 pm
St Chad’s Church, York
Director: Benjamin Morris
Saturday 29 June 2019, 7:30 pm
St Mary’s Church, Thirsk
Director: Benjamin Morris
Join us in one of two new venues for the choir as we perform a variety of choral classics including Vaughan Williams’ Three Shakespeare Songs, Handel’s Zadok the Priest, Parry’s I was glad, Britten’s Hymn to St Cecilia and works by Elgar, Stanford, Chilcott and others.
Tickets – £5. Available from York Theatre Royal.
Save the Date!
‘Come and Sing’ Day with Bob Chilcott
Saturday 28 September 2019
Concerts and Events Earlier This Season
Open Rehearsal
Tuesday 23rd October 2018, 7.15–9.15 pm
The Belfrey Hall, 52A Stonegate, York YO1 8AS
Director: Benjamin Morris
Nearest parking: Bootham Row Car Park.
It was brilliant to welcome nearly 40 extra singers to our open rehearsal, who came just to listen or to join us in singing as we prepared for our Carols by Candlelight concert! There was an opportunity to meet and talk to choir members and our director during the break. Refreshments were provided.
Nineteen Eighteen
Saturday 13th October 2018, 7:30pm
The Chapter House, York Minster
Director: Benjamin Morris
Chapter House Youth Choir Director: Charlie Gower-Smith
The final concert from our series on the theme of exile, reconciliation and peace marks three significant 100-year anniversaries: Hubert Parry’s death, the granting of women’s suffrage and later the right for women to be elected to parliament, and the forthcoming 100th anniversary on 11/11/18 of the armistice in the First World War.
- The Chapter House Choir
- Never weather-beaten sail – Hubert PARRY
- Psalm 23 – Ivor GURNEY
- The Chapter House Youth Choir
- Call to remembrance – Richard FARRANT
- They are at rest – Edward ELGAR
- The Chapter House Choir
- A Short Requiem – Henry WALFORD DAVIES
- There is an old belief – Hubert PARRY
- At the round earth’s imagined corners – Hubert PARRY
- The Chapter House Youth Choir
- Ubi Caritas – Ola GJEILO
- Crossing the bar – Hubert PARRY
- Mother of God, here I stand – John TAVENER
- Combined Choirs
- The Pankhurst Anthem – Lucy PANKHURST
- The Chapter House Choir
- Magnificat – Charles Villiers STANFORD