Choirs and Music

Opera Comes to St Nicholas’

Choirs and Music

We are pleased to announce that experienced classical singers from City Lit Opera in London will be performing in our Saxon church on April 28th at 7pm.

The concert, which will include scenes from Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito and Cosí fan tutte and The Gondoliers by Gilbert and Sullivan, will be accessible to all (that is, free) with a retiring collection (suggested donation £5) to cover costs.

City Lit Opera School provides further specialized training for those interested in applying for entry to conservatoires or for entering the profession, with participants coming from a range of backgrounds and experiences.

Artistic Director of City Lit Opera, Colin Baldy comes from Lewes, Sussex. His career encompasses performing, teaching choral classes and vocal masterclasses, directing (both musical and stage) and he has also written several books on vocal technique.

Musical Director Peter Crockford studied at the Birmingham School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music and began his career as a répétiteur with Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Operas, New Sadlers Wells Opera, Wexford Festival Opera and Welsh National Opera. As a Musical Director and conductor, he has toured widely in Europe and the Middle and Far East taking operas and concerts to such far flung places as Kathmandu and Karachi.

Please put the date in your diaries and join us for this evening.

 

Choir Gears Up for Choral Evensong

Choirs and Music

We’d love you to come along to Choral Evensong this Sunday, 26 February at 6.30pm.  Sung by Worth Choir and Directed by Alex Hiam, music will include
Preces and Responses by William Byrd, Canticles in D Minor by Walmisley, and the anthem “A Litany” by William Walton.

If you are not accustomed to this traditional service, it is one that has been sung regularly in Church since the Sixteenth Century, and was based on the Services held daily in the medieval church.  It’s the high proportion of music in Evensong which distinguishes it from other church services.
It is free to come to hear its choral music, performed live and to a high standard and The Guardian calls Evensong “One of England’s richest heritages – a living musical tradition that costs nothing to experience live.” –

Calling Ex-Choristers ! Get Back Into Singing !

Choirs and Music

Our choir, based at St Nicholas’, Worth is looking to expand.  We currently have a small (but merry!) band of singers most Sunday mornings and call upon others for our twice-yearly Evensongs.

We are particularly interested in recruiting people with previous choral experience.  Did you or someone you know sing in church when younger? Do you fancy getting back into it? Does your voice blend well ? Perhaps you miss psalm-singing?

Or perhaps you simply want to join a choir for the first time since reading the recent research that shows it improves your psychological well-being!

We work hard but it’s rewarding and fun with a professional Director of Music who inspires us.  Rehearsals are Fridays 7.30-9pm and again for 30 minutes before the 9.45 Sunday morning service.  You do not have to commit to every single Sunday.

We would be overjoyed to hear from you, so:

  • Drop us an email at musicdirector@worthparish.org.uk
  • Call the parish office on 0300 111 8150
  • Come and say hello one Sunday morning after the service