Concerts and Events – Come to our Sounds of Summer Concert – All tickets only £5!
Sounds of Summer
Saturday 22 June 2019, 7:30 pm
St Chad’s Church, York
Director: Benjamin Morris
Join us in the first of two new venues for the choir as we perform a variety of summery choral classics evoking gardens, flowers, birds and warm weather! The programme will include Vaughan Williams’ Three Shakespeare Songs and songs by Elgar, Stanford, Gershwin, Chilcott and others.
All tickets – £5! Tickets will be available shortly.
Music for a Summer’s Night
Saturday 29 June 2019, 7:30 pm
St Mary’s Church, Thirsk
Director: Benjamin Morris
In our second new venue the Chapter House Choir will perform a selection of summery choral classics in Thirsk.
This charity concert will be in aid of the Chapter House Choir, St Mary’s Church Thirsk and the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Tickets will be available shortly.
Later this year
Bob Chilcott (photo: John Bellars)
Come and Sing with Bob Chilcott
Saturday 28th September 2019, 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
The Shepherd Hall, St Olave’s School, Queen Anne’s Road, York
YO30 7WA
Director: Bob Chilcott
Accompanist: Benjamin Morris
This is a great opportunity to work with a master in his field! Under Bob Chilcott’s entertaining and encouraging guidance you will work through some of his compositions, using a variety of choral singing techniques to help you improve and get more enjoyment from choral singing.
Please register from 9:45 am and be seated by 10:25 am for the introductions and welcome, to enable a prompt start at 10:30 am. The day will end at 4:30 pm. If you have any queries, please email events@chapterhousechoir.org
Tickets cost £20 for adults and £5 for under 18s, students and non-singing guests, available from Eventbrite from 1 March 2019 using the Buy Tickets button below.
Autumn Concert with the Chapter House Youth Choir
Saturday 16 November 2019, 7:30 pm
The Chapter House, York Minster
Director: Benjamin Morris
Christmas Carol Concert with the Chapter House Youth Choir
Saturday 14 December 2019, 7:30 pm
St Michael-le-Belfrey Church, York
Director: Benjamin Morris
Carols by Candlelight with the Handbell Ringers of the Chapter House Choir
Wednesday 18 December 2019, 7:30 pm
The Chapter House, York Minster
Director: Benjamin Morris
Concerts and Events Earlier This Season
Under the Shadow of his Wing
Saturday 23rd March 2019, 7:30pm
St Olave’s Church, Marygate, York
Director: Benjamin Morris
This concert comprised a complete performance of Jonathan Rathbone’s Under the Shadow of His Wing, a wonderful extended setting of the service of Vespers, in the presence of the composer.
Under the Shadow of His Wing – Jonathan Rathbone
- Te Lucis Ante Terminum
- Now that the Sun hath Veiled His Light
- Jesu, Salvator Sæculi
- Magnificat
- Nunc Dimittis
- O Nata Lux
- Close Thine Eyes (Upon a Quiet Conscience)
- Christe Qui Lux es et Dies
- In Pace, in Idipsum
- Blessed is the Man
- Glory To Thee
- Care Charming Sleep
- Into Thy Hands
- Hail Gladdening Light
- Recessional (Te Lucis & Amens)
- Abide With Me
Carols by Candlelight
Wednesday 19th December 2018, 7:30pm
The Chapter House, York Minster
Director: Benjamin Morris
The Chapter House Choir’s trademark traditional Carols by Candlelight with The Handbell Ringers of the Chapter House Choir in the wonderful Chapter House of York Minster.
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
A celebration of the festive season with carols old and new! The Chapter House Choir performed alongside the Chapter House Youth Choir and The Handbell Ringers of the Chapter House Choir.
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