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All Wye on the night: Chamber Choir review
First-year student Matt Bamford reviews on-line last Friday’s Chamber Choir concert over on ‘Music Matters,’ as the choir brought the term’s music-making activities to a triumphant conclusion in a...
View ArticleA campus ‘Two Choirs’ Festival: in miniature!
If you are around on campus between 5.30 – 6pm later today, you may hear the strains of choral singing emanating from a stage on the Registry Gardens. Don’t panic: it will be us. Ahead of their...
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Advent Concert: tickets now on sale!
Tickets are now on sale for the Chamber Choir’s ‘Music for Advent‘ concert at the church ot St. Cosmus and St. Damian, Blean, on Friday 25 November. As I type, the pile of black tickets rests before...
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Make we joy now
The season of Advent has well and truly begun over last weekend. In fine voice, the Chamber Choir rose to the match the occasion on Friday and delivered a performance rich in nuance, flexibility, and...
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Tidings of comfort and joy
The annual University Carol Service in Canterbury Cathedral is one of the high points of the cultural year, a moment when the University community comes together to celebrate not just the Christmas...
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A memorable performance
Over on ‘Music Matters,’ second-year Business student Matthew Bamford reflects on the Crypt Concert, and what was a memorable occasion. Image credit: Robert Berry We’re taking a week off, and will be...
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On song: the Estates Team Choir to make festive debut
Christmas fever has hit members of the Estates Team, who (as regular readers of the blog will know) have recently formed their own Choir; led by Deputy Director of Music, Dan Harding, the Choir will be...
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Sweet singing in the Choir
It’s been the end of a very busy period for the Chamber Choir, with two performances as part of the Gala weekend of concerts celebrating the opening of the new music building, followed hard upon by...
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When they sing, ain’t it thrillin’…
And with a fantastic flourish, the Estates Team Choir made its debut in front of a packed audience in the foyer of the Colyer-Fergusson Building. There was no sense of stage-fright at all as the team...
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Music divine: the Crypt Concert
And so, after all the hard work, the Crypt Concert came on Friday in a myriad shimmering sounds and colours. Gathering for the rehearsal in the Crypt in the afternoon, we started by singing not the...
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Troll the ancient Christmas carol
And so, the Chamber Choir’s first public concert has suddenly come and gone. After all the preparation, the eager anticipation and excitement, the Advent sequence evaporated in a whiff of Christmas...
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Carol Service at the Cathedral
As I drove a few of the Chamber Choir back to campus last night, after the Chamber Choir had sung in the annual University Carol Service in Canterbury Cathedral, we were all reflecting on how fortunate...
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Sweet singing in the Choir
When you are preoccupied with such issues as getting in place by the end of Once in Royal David’s City, processing without tripping up, juggling a folder of music and a lit candle without setting light...
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Invitation to the Dance: Cecilian Choir perform music by Lully
Thanks to Matt Wilson for these splendid images of the Cecilian Choir in concert earlier this week, in a concert celebrating the music of Jean-Baptiste Lully. The Choir performed a selection of sacred...
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The singing will never be done: Cecilian Choir perform Memorial Ground
Thank you to all the members of the University Cecilian Choir and other performers, who took part in Memorial Ground by David Lang earlier today. Combining music with poetry by Siegfried Sassoon, and a...
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Minerva in festive mood with carols for the Donor reception
Minerva Voices, the upper-voices chamber choir, was in festive mood on Friday night, taking to the foyer-stage to add some seasonal musical lustre to the reception for University donors. The...
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Image Gallery: Memorial Ground at Studio 3 Gallery
Pictures from last month, when the Cecilian Choir gave a performance of David Lang’s Memorial Ground, bringing together music, poetry and image projection, in Studio 3 Gallery. With thanks to Matt...
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Sing, choir of angels! Minerva Voices goes carol-singing for Cancer Research
A bustling Canterbury high street was treated to a festive selection of carols for upper-voices, as Minerva Voices took to the street to sing in support of Cancer Research. The idea was suggested by...
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Hark, the glad sound: Chamber Choir at the Cathedral
For the University Chamber Choir, December means but one thing: the candlelit magic of the annual University Carol Service in Canterbury Cathedral. This year, the Choir performed three pieces;...
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Where science meets art: the Cecilian Choir and Cellular Dynamics
The University Cecilian Choir recently performed Ola Gjeilo’s colourful Sunrise Mass as part of the continuing Cellular Dynamics project, an initiative between the Music department and the School of...
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