Past Engagements
St John Singers Tour to Cyprus
Date:Fri 1 May, 2020Venue:Paphos, CyprusLocation
See map: Google MapsSt John Singers will be visiting Cyprus for 5 days. Engagements include a performance of the Mozart Requiem in Paphos, and a sung Eucharist for the British Forces in Episkopi Garrison Church.
Stainers Crucifixion
Date:Fri 10 Apr, 2020Time:7:00pmVenue:St Thomas's ChurchLocation
See map: Google MapsOur annual service of this moving Victorian music, with St Thomas's Church Choir.
JUBILATE! A Concert of Celebratory Choral Music.
Date:Sat 14 Mar, 2020Time:7:30pmVenue:Methodist Church, St Edmunds Church StreetLocation
See map: Google MapsOur March concert will feature a variety of choral styles. The first half will contain contrasting settings of the Jubilate (Psalm 100 - O be joyful in the Lord all ye lands) by Gabrieli, Schutz and John Sanders, with other music by Bach (including Jesu, joy of man’s desiring, with Rosalie Watson, organ), Rheinberger and Bruckner.
The second half, in lighter vein, will contain songs by Stanford and Vaughan Williams, Randy Newman, Burt Bacharach and Lennon & McCartney.
So, whatever your taste, there should be something for you!
St John Singers are pleased to welcome husband and wife solo team, Alistair and Rosalie Watson, piano and oboe respectively: they will provide contrast to the evening’s choral programme.
And following the success (in terms of audience taste buds) of our March 2018, Coffee and Cake will be served in the interval...
Salisbury Cathedral Services
Date:Sat 4 Jan, 2020Venue:Salisbury CathedralLocation
See map: Google MapsSt John Singers will be Singing Saturday Evensong, and Sunday Eucharist and Evensong over this weekend. It would be lovely to see our friends and supporters there.
2019 St John Singers "Magic of Christmas"
Date:Wed 18 Dec, 2019Time:7:30pmVenue:St Thomas's Church, St. Thomas’s Square, Salisbury, SP1 1BALocation
See map: Google MapsAmesbury Abbey Choral Concert
Date:Sat 12 Oct, 2019Time:7:28pmVenue:The Abbey Church of St Mary and St Melor, Church Street Amesbury Salisbury SP4 7EULocation
See map: Google MapsPsalms, Songs & Secular
Directed by Stephen Abbott.
Accompanist: Ben Maton.
John Pitt-Brooke (reader)
Robert Blakey (baritone).
Proceeds in aid of Amesbury Abbey Church.
Programme:
Psalm settings - Walfod Davies, Gabrieli and others
Texts by George Herbert - including from Vaughan Williams 5 Mystical Songs
Folk Songs - from Chilcott to Lennon & McCartney
Summer Concert - Mozart Requiem
Date:Sat 6 Jul, 2019Time:7:28pmVenue:St Martins Church, SalisburyLocation
See map: Google MapsAve Verum Corpus - W. A. MozartEvening Hymn - H. Balfour GardinerFive Mystical Songs - R. Vaughan WilliamsHugh Hetherington - BaritoneINTERVALRequiem - W.A.MozartCamilla Harris - SopranoOlympia Hetherington - Mezzo-SopranoXavier Hetherington - TenorGuy Pelly - Bass
Stephen Abbott - ConductorSam Hanson - Piano/OrganEvensong at Chichester Cathedral
Date:Sat 1 Jun, 2019Time:5:28pmVenue:Chichester Cathedral, The Royal Chantry, Cathedral Cloisters, Chichester PO19 1PXLocation
See map: Google MapsStainer's Crucifixion
Date:Fri 19 Apr, 2019Time:6:58pmVenue:All Saints Church WhiteparishLocation
See map: Google MapsSt John Singers will be performing their annual, Good Friday, Stainer's Crucifixion under their musical director Stephen Abbott at a service to mark the opening of the Whiteparish Festival. David Coram, organist, Morley Beswick will be the tenor soloist and Robert Blakey the bass.
