Dear Subscriber,

Following a wonderful concert in October, (Mozart's Requiem, which some of you may have attended and, hopefully, enjoyed) we are now hard at work preparing for our joyful Christmas Carol Concerts! Please join us at Patchings Farm Arts Centre on Sunday, 10th December at 7.30pm (tickets £8.50) or at St Simon and St Jude’s Church, Rainworth, at 7.30pm on Tuesday, 12th December (tickets £5.00). It would be lovely to see you for some festive fun - audience participation and tasty mince pies are included at no extra cost! Tickets for the Patchings concert are available in advance from Patchings. Tickets for the Rainworth concert are available in advance from Amanda Lees on 0115 9652946 or through PayPal on our website. There is also the option of purchasing tickets on the door for both concerts, but these events do tend to sell out…!

In addition, our hugely popular Come and Sing event will be taking place on Saturday, 20th January 2018 at St Michael and All Angels Church, Bramcote, Nottingham, from 9am until 5pm. We will be singing the much-loved Duruflé Requiem and several Bruckner Motets, directed by the ever-professional and enthusiastic Richard Roddis. It’s a mere £20.00 for the whole day, or £25.00 if you would like a delicious lunch, too! Please see our website for booking forms.

If the Come and Sing inspires you, please come to our performance of the Duruflé Requiem at St Barnabas Cathedral, Derby Road, Nottingham, on Saturday, March 3rd, 2018, at 8.00pm (tickets £12.00). It should be a memorable evening of beautiful music. We look forward to seeing you there and at our other events.

Best wishes from your friends in Sinfonia Chorale, and thank you for your continued support and interest in the Choir.

The Sinfonia Chorale

http://www.sinfoniachorale.uk

Dear Subscriber,

Welcome to the 2017/18 season of Sinfonia Chorale.

We hope that despite the very mixed weather, you have all had a relaxing summer and are now looking forward to an exciting season of concert going.

Having thoroughly enjoyed our 50th Anniversary celebrations, the choir are now preparing for the new season.

Our first concert is on Saturday, October 14th at St John’s Church, Mansfield Road, Carrington, at 7.30pm. We shall be performing Mozart’s Requiem along with other choral items. The Requiem will be accompanied by piano duet in a transcription made by the great pianist and piano teacher Carl Czerny.

The pianists will be Gill Bithel and Beate Toyka who will also perform Schubert's Fantasie in F minor.

Tickets are £12 (£5 for students) and will be available from Sandra Wakefield Tel: 0115 9606236, via the website or on the door, subject to availability.

Looking further ahead, our Christmas concert at Patching's Farm Arts Centre, Calverton will take place on Sunday, December 10th at 7.30pm. Tickets for this will be available from their website.

The following Tuesday, December 12th at 7.30pm we shall give a carol concert at the Church of St. Simon and St. Jude, Rainworth.

As usual, we start the New Year with our annual Come and Sing event. This will be held at Bramcote Parish Church, NG9 3HD on Saturday, January 20th. The main work for study will be the Duruflé Requiem.

As usual, this work will form the centrepiece of our Spring Concert, along with pieces by Bruckner and Finzi, which will be held on Saturday, March 3rd at St. Barnabas Cathedral, Derby Road, Nottingham at 8.00pm.

We hope that you will find this an interesting programme for the season and we look forward to your continued support.

The Sinfonia Chorale

http://www.sinfoniachorale.uk

Dear Subscriber,

Well, the end of our 50th Anniversary year is rapidly approaching, but what a fabulous year it has been!

Starting in November, we performed Richard Roddis’s own composition Lauda Creatoris. What an exciting work this proved to be! This was followed by our two Annual Christmas events in December at Patchings Art Centre and West Bridgford Methodist Church. In January we held an extremely well-supported Come and Sing/Play workshop when we studied Bach’s magnificent B Minor Mass.

The performance of this monumental work in Southwell Minster in March was the highlight of our year.

Under Richard’s excellent direction and supported by the Baroque Ensemble, led by Nicolette Moonen, the choir gave one of its most memorable performances. We all felt that it had been a privilege to be a part of such an event and judging from the many comments and tweets from the audience, they too felt it had been a very special occasion.

So now we reach our Summer events which bring our anniversary year to a close.

Sing Joyfully is the title of our concert on June 17th, at St Jude’s Church Woodborough Road, Mapperley, NG3 5HE at 7.30pm.

This will be a re-union event and we shall welcome back some of our former members. The programme will include some of the choir’s favourite pieces, both sacred and secular.

There will be English madrigals, including the Silver Swan and Hark, all ye lovely Saints above, Tudor Anthems Sing Joyfully and If ye love Me, European Sacred music Locus Iste and Crucifixus. From the twentieth century repertoire we have part of the G Minor Mass by Vaughan Williams, The Hymn to St. Cecelia by Benjamin Britten as well as pieces by Eric Whitacre, and arrangements by Richard Roddis – an altogether eclectic mix!

Tickets are £10 (£5 for students) and are available from Sandra Wakefield, Tel: 0115 960 6236, the Sinfonia Chorale website or at the door.

On the following day, Sunday June 18th we are performing for Waterworks – a charity providing clean water and hygienic sanitation systems in Malawi. This concert will be an hour long and will take place in Oxton Village Hall at 2pm. Admission is free but there will be a retiring collection.

As this season ends we are, of course planning the next. Our first concert of the 2017/18 season is at St John’s Church, Carrington on Saturday October 14th at 7.30pm. This will be a performance of Mozart’s Requiem in the Czerny piano arrangement for Piano Duet. Tickets are £12 (£5 for full time students) and will be available from the usual outlets.

As always, we are extremely grateful for your continued support and we hope you have enjoyed celebrating our 50th Anniversary with us.

We look forward to seeing you at our future concerts.

The Sinfonia Chorale

http://www.sinfoniachorale.uk

Dear Subscriber,

Preparations are fully underway for Sinfonia Chorale’s forthcoming 50th Anniversary Concert on Saturday 11th March at 7.30pm in Southwell Minster NG25 0HD. This performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor promises to be one of the highlights in the musical calendar for 2017. It is a monumental composition which never fails to inspire the listener.

We have a magnificent line-up of soloists along with the Baroque Ensemble (Leader Nicolette Moonen). As usual, the Conductor will be Richard Roddis.

Tickets priced at £15, £12 and £10 (restricted view) available from:-

• Sandra Wakefield Tel: 0115 9606236
• The Cathedral Shop ,Southwell Tel: 01636 812933
• Sinfonia Chorale website
• Sinfonia Chorale Choir Members

Tickets for full time students U21 are £5.00

As usual, we look forward to seeing you there.

Sinfonia Chorale 

http://www.sinfoniachorale.uk

Dear Subscriber,

Sinfonia Chorale’s 50th anniversary year began with a superb concert at St. Giles’ Church, West Bridgford. The main work in the programme was Lauda Creatoris, composed by our Musical Director, Richard Roddis. This was very well received by both audience and choir alike.

Now, of course, rehearsals are in full swing for our Christmas performances.

On Sunday, December 11th the choir will be singing at Patchings Farm Arts Centre, Calverton NG14 6NU. Details and tickets for this are available from Patchings Tel: 0115 9653479 or from their website.

The following Tuesday, December 13th we shall be singing at West Bridgford Methodist Church, Musters Road NG2 7PQ starting at 7.30pm. Tickets are £8 and £5 for full-time students, available from Sandra Wakefield, Tel 0115 9606236, Jayline, Tudor Square, West Bridgford or from the Sinfonia Chorale website.

At this concert there will be a retiring collection in support of the Nottinghamshire Clubs for Young People.

The programme will contain the usual mix of Carols old and new, along with readings and, of course, audience participation.

The first event in 2017 is the Come and Sing/Play led by Richard Roddis and Nicolette Moonen. This will take place on Saturday January 21st, commencing at 10.00am and concluding at 5.00pm. The venue is Bramcote Parish Church,NG9 3HD. We shall be studying Bach’s Mass in B Minor. The cost for the day is £20 (£25 with a hot lunch)

Information and booking forms are available from the Sinfonia Chorale website.

Anyone who has been to these workshops before knows what stimulating and satisfying occasions they are, so we do hope you will come and join us.

On 11th March 2017 we have our major celebration concert in the magnificent surroundings of Southwell Minster. We shall be performing Bach’s Mass in B Minor.

The soloists will be: 

• Soprano - Lisa Cassidy
• Countertenor - William Purefoy
• Tenor - James Gallimore
• Bass - Michael Dewis

The Baroque Ensemble will be led by Nicolette Moonen.

Tickets are priced at £15, £12 and £10 and will be available in January from the usual outlets.

Do come and join us for what promises to be an exciting event. It will be a great opportunity to hear this magnificent piece performed with the kind of resources that Bach himself would have used – a chamber-sized choral group accompanied by Baroque instruments.

As usual we thank you for your continued support and hope to see you at our future concerts.

We wish you a Happy Christmas and send our best wishes for 2017.

Sinfonia Chorale

http://www.sinfoniachorale.uk