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Dvořák Mass in D

7:30pm Sunday 12 June 2022 St Oswald’s Church The main work in the Festival Choir’s final concert of the 2021-2022 Season is the sunny and tuneful Mass in D that Dvořák wrote in 1887 for a friend who had built a new chapel at his chateau in Lužany. The original was for a small choir […]

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Brahms Requiem

7:30pm Sunday 10 April 2022 Bollington Arts Centre The last time the Choir sang before Lockdown in March 2020 it was joined by friends for a Singing Day devoted to Brahms’ Requiem, one of the most beautiful, uplifting and popular of all choral works. Two days later, meeting and singing together became impossible. Eighteen months […]

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Singing Day: Dvořák Requiem

Saturday 12 March 2022 9.30am – 4.00pm Bollington Arts Centre Almost every year, the choir hosts a Singing Day open to the public. In recent years, the work studied has been the main one in the summer concert. Join the Choir to explore the delights of Dvořák’s Mass In D, a melodious and optimistic work. […]

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CANCELLED: Dido and Aeneas

UNFORTUNATELY, DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC THIS PERFORMANCE HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED 7:30pm Sunday 5 April 2020 St Oswald’s Church A classical tragedy telling of the love of the doomed Carthaginian Queen for a Trojan war hero. Passion, witchcraft, betrayal and death told in glorious music from the 17th century. A complete concert performance […]

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Singing Day: Brahms Requiem

Saturday 14 March 2020 9.30am – 4.30pm Bollington Arts Centre Join Festival Choir members and their conductor Donald Judge to rehearse Brahms Requiem, a work beloved of all choral singers. We’ll be singing in English, and will conclude the day with an impromptu performance of as much of the piece as we can reasonably manage […]

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