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11th July 21:00 – 22:00 Église de Sixt-sur-Aff : 35550 SIXT-SUR-AFF12th July 20:30 – 21:30 Basilique Saint-Sauveur, place Saint-Sauveur 35000 RENNESLes Musicales de Redon |
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Thank you to our audiences
It is always reassuring when a good and appreciative audience turns out on a Saturday evening to attend one of our performances. It is especially pleasing that on these occasions, as a Community Choir we are able, with our audiences’ support, to raise substantial funds for local charities. In the last year we have raised £295 for the Stars Appeal, £745 for Salisbury Hospice, over £1000 for the Salisbury Branch of Samaritans and £600 for the Alzheimer’s Day Centre in Salisbury.
The Year Ahead
This year we look forward to the choir learning and performing a wide range of music including two choir favourites, Faure’s Requiem and Palmeri’s Misatango. We are very proud that we have been invited to perform at Les Musicales de Redon in Brittany in July, an opportunity that will be particularly exciting.
On Saturday 23rd March 2024 our Spring Concert, Turf and Surf took place to a packed audience. The concert celebrated the 200th anniversary of the founding of the RNLI and also marked the 100 year anniversary of the death of Charles Villiers Stanford. The choir was delighted to be joined by St Mark’s School Choir who had written a special sea song for the occasion with some encouragement from our Musical Director, Graham Coatman.
On Saturday 27th April, Kate Edgar Music and St Thomas’s Church hosted the inaugural and highly successful Salisbury Choir Festival. The day of choral singing was incredibly well attended and raised significant sums for Cancer Research and St Thomas’s Church.
Saturday 22 June was the date of our Summer Concert at St Martin’s Church. With works by varied composers such as Antonio Vivaldi, Ēriks Ešenvalds, and Martin Palmeri, the finale was Faure’s Requiem Op 48. The choir thoroughly enjoyed working with the small orchestra arranged by Bryony Moody and with our soloists, Phil Wilcox and Hannah Bloor.
The choir is on the road again this summer, singing in various places in Brittany. The concerts, as part of Les Musicales de Redon, will be on the evenings of July 11th and July 12th. Further details and ticketing are available via the Music Festival’s website, click on the Les Musicales de Redon in the box at the top of this page.
And then there is Christmas 2024. Plans are already shaping up but more of that to come later!
If any of this sounds like something you would enjoy being part of we are always happy to hear from potential members. Do please contact our Membership Secretary if you would like more information about the Choir. Our next term of rehearsals starts on Thursday 5 September at Chafyn Grove School.
Salisbury Community Choir is a thriving amateur choir with over 130 members
The choir sings for the sheer love of it, but also challenges itself to develop up to and beyond its potential. The choir is non auditioned, some members read music and some do not. The mixture works and with patient encouragement from our fantastic Musical Director, the choir achieves amazing performance successes, whilst having a lot of fun along the way!
We are ambitious and adventurous musically, commissioning new works and organising and performing in both small and large scale concerts all over the UK. We regularly tour abroad, mainly to Europe, but have adventured further afield.
The SCC has a big heart and we have a real community focus, supporting each other and fundraising for a diverse range of charities, from Hospices to Homelessness.
If you love to sing, have a spirit of adventure and would like to be part of our community why not come and try us out!
The SCC thrives on the variety of the music it sings, from choral classics to classic pop!
Recent repertoire includes:
- Alexander L’Estrange & Joanna Forbes-L’Estrange: Freedom! – The Power of Song (SCC commission)
- Martin Palmeri: Misa a Buenos Aires Misatango
- Will Todd: The City Garden (SCC commission)
- Bob Chilcott: The Salisbury Vespers (SCC joint commission)
- Sarah Quartel: A Winter Day
- Faure: Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine
- Compilations from: Oklahoma, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Les Miserables, ABBA and many others
- Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man
- An extensive variety of carols and Christmas music.
If you are thinking about joining us out contact Gill, our Membership Secretary at membership@salisburycommunitychoir.org
Registered Charity Number 1095033.