CALENDAR
Events
2021
There's
a concert, this year, 2021, on the 11th December at 7.30pm, at Burgate
church. Tickets are £15 each and include a glass of wine. To reserve
tickets, please phone 01379 870937
Programme
is
Faure: Requiem
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols.
Events
2020
Summer Concert – Saturday 6th June, at Eye Town Hall, at 7.00 pm.
Programme: Michael Tippett “A Child of our Time” and Benjamin Britten “The National Anthem”.
Tickets: £18. Tel: 07966 283217 or on the door.
Choral Workshop - Saturday, 18th April at Burgate Church Hall,
10.30am – 3.30pm
The workshop will be by taken by Alain Judd, Music Director of the Burgate Singers, who will give advice on breathing and vocal techniques, including the opportunity to study the score and sing parts of Haydn’s “Nelson Mass”. The cost is £25 per person, to include coffee, a light lunch of soup and sandwiches, afternoon cup of tea and biscuits. To book a place, please contact: Jan Long on 01379 643588
Email: jan_long347@hotmail.com
Events
2019
Burgate Singers’ Christmas Concert
Saturday 7 December at Eye Town Hall at 7.00pm
J S Bach – Cantata BWV 70 “Watchet und Betet, Betet un Watchet” (Watch and Pray)
W A Mozart – “Requiem”
Tickets: £18. Bar available.
Ticket Reservations - Tel: 07966 283217 or available on the door.
Choral Workshop – Burgate Church Hall, IP22 1QE
Saturday, 2 November 2019
10.30 am – 3.30 pm (registration and coffee from 10.00 am)
Cost £20 to include lunch of soup and sandwiches, and a cup of tea at end of the day.
The workshop (to include coaching to improve breathing and vocal technique), will be led by the Singers’ music director, Alain Judd, who is a professional singer (London Voices). The music to be studied is J S Bach’s Cantata BWV 70 “Watchet und Betet, Betet, und Watchet” (Watch and Pray) and Mozart’s “Requiem.” Both will be performed at the Singers’ Christmas Concert.
Please contact Jan on 01379 643588 to book your place.
The Burgate Singers and Burgate Sinfonia
perform the concert version of
Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta The Yeomen of the Guard with professional
soloists.
Diss Corn Hall on Saturday 27th April at 7.00 pm.
When it was first performed it ran for 423 shows and many of the tunes remain familiar today. Not to be missed. Tickets £18 (£15 for under 18s) from
the Corn Hall Box Office 01379 652241.
Events
2018
Hector Berlioz
L'Enfance du Christ
at the Eye Town Hall on Saturday 15 December 2018 at 7.30 p.m.
The
Burgate Singers at Burgate Church
Saturday May 12th, 2018, - 7:30pm
Verdi - Four Sacred Pieces &
Handel - Overture To The Royal Fireworks
Dixit Dominus
The Burgate Singers & Burgate Sinfonia, conducted by Alain
Judd
Ticket prices £23/£18 or PAY AT THE DOOR
Under 16 £16 Supper £5
Telephone 01379 677333
Events
2017
Saturday 9th December 2017, 7 pm, Diss Corn Hall
Box Office 01379 652241
Grand 40th-Anniversary Concert:
Handel’s Messiah
Saturday 13th May 2017, Eye Town Hall, 7 p.m.
Igor Stravinsky – Symphony of Psalms
Karol Szymanowski – Stabat Mater
Josef Haydn – ‘Nelson’ Mass
Two more of our popular workshops
at the Burgate Church Hall,
led by Alain Judd:
Saturday 4th March - Basic musicianship
Saturday 25th March - Vocal improvement
Further details - click here.
Events
2016
Saturday 3rd December 2016 :
Eye Town Hall
7.00 p.m.
Francis Poulenc Gloria
W A Mozart
Exsultate, jubilate K. 165
Vesperae Solennes de Confessore K. 339
William Walton Henry V
7th May 2016 : Eye Church:
Sir Arthur Sullivan Overture 'Di Ballo'
Boer War Te Deum
John Carol Case Requiem for an Unknown Soldier
(just published - orchestral premiere)
Arrigo Boito
Mefistofele: Prologue
19th March 2016: Another of our popular Vocal Workshops.
For details and a downloadable booking form, click here.
Events
2015
Programme
2015
Christmas
Concert 2015 Saturday 5 December in The Church of Ss Peter and Paul,
Eye, at 7.00 pm.
G F
Handel Jephtha
Saturday
23 May in St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, London at 8.00 pm
Rossini
Overture to William Tell
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Elgar The
Music Makers
Tickets
for London concert available by clicking here www.wegottickets.com
Saturday
18 April in Burgate Church Hall 10.30 am – 3.45 pm
A Voice
Workshop
Events
2014
Programme
2014
Christmas Concert 2014
Saturday
6 December at 7.30 pm in Diss Corn Hall
R Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols
G Fauré Requiem
A Honegger Cantate de Noël
Tickets available from Diss Corn Hall or from choir members
Big Fabric Sale
Saturday 19 July in Burgate Church Hall, 11.00 am to 3.00 pm
A sale of high-quality furnishing fabrics and accessories such as
curtain tie-backs. Light refreshments on sale.
Saturday 3 May. St James’ Church, Piccadilly,
London at 7.30 pm
A concert performance of Tchaikovsky’s opera ‘Eugene Onegin’
A voice workshop - Saturday 26th April 2014 -
Burgate Church Hall, 10am - 4pm
Events
2013
Programme
2013
Saturday
December 14th. Diss Corn Hall 7:30pm.
J.S.Bach & C.P.E.Bach's Magnificat.
Also Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate & Handel's Sta Nel Arcana.
April 20th 2013. St. James’s Church,
Piccadilly, performing an exhilarating concert of music by Handel and
Mozart.
Events 2012
Programme
2012
Saturday
December 8th. Diss Corn Hall 7:30pm
The Daphne Walker Memorial Concert - Handel’s Messiah
Saturday
April 21st 2012. Burgate Church 7.30pm.
Rachmaninov’s Vespers
and The Music Makers by Elgar.
Events 2011
Programme
2011
Saturday
December
3rd 2011. Diss Corn Hall, 7.30pm
Mozart - Requiem
Respighi’s - Laud to the Nativity
April 28th 2011, the Choir travels to London to take part in a
performance of Handel’s Alcina in St James Church, Piccadilly.
Saturday
April 16th 2011. Burgate Church 7.30pm.
Haydn’s beautiful and much-loved The Seasons.
Events 2010
Saturday 4th December 2010. The Corn Hall, Diss. 7.30 pm
Claudio Monteverdi - Christmas Vespers
Igor Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms
Honegger - Christmas Cantata
Details of the Christmas concert 2010
Programme 2010 - Autumn
Saturday
April 17th 2010. Burgate Church. 7.30pm.
J.S.Bach
Mass in B Minor.
Programme
2010 - Spring
Events 2009
December
5th, 2009, Diss Corn Hall, 7.30pm.
Gilbert
& Sullivan’s Patience.
Programme 2009 - Autumn
Gilbert and
Sullivan’s hugely popular work will be followed – almost certainly
as never before - by a performance of Handel’s much loved Hallelujah
Chorus, as
part of the BBC's Sing
Hallelujah project.
May
22nd 2009, BBC Radio 4 at 2.15pm.
In November 2008 the Burgate Singers played the part of the fictional
'Nether Bramlicote Choir' in the radio play 'Places Where They
Sing' by Ellen Dryden. The Burgate Singers were recorded on location
in Burgate Village Hall, singing music specially composed for the
play by Derek Bourgeois and providing the choir
reactions to the dramas of rehearsal !
The play - First Writes Radio Production for BBC Radio 4 - will
be broadcast on BBC Radio 4, May 22nd 2009 at 2.15pm.
Events 2008
Click
here for latest news - Winter Programme
April 19th, 2008, Diss Corn Hall, Beethoven programme.
December 13th, 2008, Diss Corn Hall, 7:30pm, Handel's Samson.
Events
2007
March
31st,
Concert, Handel’s Messiah
Burgate Church, 7:30pm
December
1st - The Yeomen of the Guard, Gilbert & Sullivan.
Diss Corn Hall, 7:30pm
Events
2006
March
18, Concert, Judas Maccabaeus
St Peter and St Paul’s Church, East Harling
May
24, Singing Workshop,
Burgate Village Hall
June
10, Concert, Mozart Requiem, Stravinsky Mass
Diss Corn Hall
December
2, Concert, Bach Magnificat, Respighi’s Laud to the Nativity 7.30pm at
Diss Corn Hall.
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