Workshops
Brian Kay leads a workshop on Handel's Messiah March 2019
Each year the choir hosts a workshop led by a well known personality from the world of choral singing. These full day events are held shortly before the Spring concert and cover the work to be performed, giving our members a boost in both practice and confidence. Singers from many other choirs also attend and we regularly have over two hundred people taking part.
Peter Allwood leads our 2011 workshop
Previous workshop leaders and works have included:
2024 James Bartlett – Haydn – Creation
2023 Peter Allwood – Mozart – Requiem
2022 Peter Allwood – Purcell – Dido and Aeneas
2022 Matthew Coleridge – Composer and Director – Requiem
2021 Ruaraidh Sutherland – "Singing together again" after the Pandemic
2019 Brian Kay – Handel – Messiah
2018 Oliver Hancock – Rutter – Magnificat
2017 Brian Kay – Mozart – Requiem
2016 Andrew Cleary – Faure – Requiem
2015 Ralph Allwood – Carmina Burana
2014 David Lawrence – Haydn – Creation
2013 Alexander Lestrange – Zimbe
2012 Verdi – Requiem
2011 Peter Allwood – Walton – Belshazzar’s Feast
2010 Jonathan Willcocks – Elgar – The Dream of Gerontius
2009 Andrew Gant – Vivaldi – Gloria and Haydn – Nelson Mass
2008 Simon Halsey – Brahms – Requiem
2007 Robert Dean – Stravinsky & Bernstein
2006 Bob Chilcott – Handel – Messiah>