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Christmas Concert

Date Posted: Sun, 17 Nov 2024

St Albans Choral Society is celebrating its 80th anniversary singing in the city of St Albans, and this year we’re introducing some exciting changes to our 2024 Christmas Concert, ‘Ding Dong Merrily’. The concert will take place in the beautifully renovated St Peter’s Church, with the choir joined by our new accompanist, organist Edward Kemp-Luck.

The programme features carols with opportunities to join in, popular Christmas favourites, a selection of specially chosen seasonal readings and a couple of little surprises. For many, this concert signals the start of their Christmas celebrations – so why not join us, enjoy the music, and stay for wine and mince pies afterwards?

The Choir programme will include Morten Lauridsen's beautiful O Magnum Mysterium, Gustav Holst's classic, Christmas Day, and Chanticleer, an award winning composition by our recently retired accompanist, Richard James Harvey.

After the concert, festive refreshments will be provided by and on behalf of Centre 33. The concert duration is about an hour and fifteen minutes.

More details are available on our Concerts page..

Christmas Concert Tickets
Date Posted: Sat, 16 Nov 2024
Tickets are now on sale for our fabulous Christmas concert at St Peter's Church on 8 December! Please see our Concerts page for more information.

New season, new accompanist

Date Posted: Fri, 6 Sep 2024

We held our first rehearsal of the 2024/25 Season on 5 September, for our Duruflé Requiem and Bach Magnificat concert at St Albans Cathedral on Saturday 16 November with Orchestra Nova and a fabulous group of soloists. Tickets will be on sale very soon. We also welcomed our new accompanist, Edward Kemp-Luck – we're greatly looking forward to working with him.

June 2024 concert

Date Posted: Wed, 8 May 2024

Thank you to everyone who supported our June 2024 concert, where we were delighted to present a programme of choral and organ music to celebrate St Alban’s Day, in an inaugural concert at St Peter’s Church, following its major refurbishment.

Assistant conductor Naomi Jones led the choir in a variety of works – Mendelssohn’s ever-popular extended anthem Hear my Prayer, Grieg’s achingly beautiful Ave Maris Stella and Rossini’s dramatic O Salutaris Hostia.

The choir also premièred a specially commissioned setting of the Ave Verum Corpus from BBC prize-winning composer Sarah Frances Jenkins and completed the programme with popular American/Scandinavian composer Morten Lauridsen’s rich and intensely moving Lux Aeterna – a non-liturgical Requiem.

St Albans Choral Society were joined by outstanding young Cornish soprano Lucy Mitten and organist Richard Harvey, in his final concert as the long-standing accompanist of the choir. Richard was afforded the opportunity to shine in César Franck’s Chorale in A minor, the Belgian composer’s final masterpiece.

April 2024 Concert

Date Posted: Sat, 13 Apr 2024

Thank you to all those who supported us at our our spring concert on Saturday 13 April. Under our Music Director George Vass, we had an amazing evening performing a programme of sacred and secular music in the Chapel of St George’s School, Harpenden.

Joined by a trio of outstanding young soloists, Danni O’Neill (soprano), Angharad Rowlands (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Butler (baritone) and accompanied by Orchestra Nova, the concert's headline piece was Vivaldi's magnificent Gloria in D Major. The programme also featured Gerald Finzi’s deeply moving cantata ‘In terra pax’.

Reflecting its commitment to performing works by living composers, the Choir also performed James Francis Brown’s three exultant and uplifting psalm settings, ‘The Heavens and the Heart’, commissioned by St Albans Choral Society, and a recent work by Cecilia McDowall, the Choir’s composer-in-association.

Our next concert is on Saturday 22 June 2o24 - please see our Concerts page for details.

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