Past Performances

Here comes Christmas!

Sun, 8 Dec 2024

Carols and festive music performed by Colchester Choral Society, the Sing Up children's choir, accompanied by a brass quintet and Gillian Ward Russell (piano & organ). Compere - Liz Mullen.

Elijah

Sat, 16 Nov 2024

Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah

with the Colchester Sinfonia and

Catherine May (soprano)
Kate Symonds-Joy (mezzo soprano)
Daniel Joy (tenor)
Edward Ballard (baritone)

Summer serenade

Sat, 22 Jun 2024

Our end of season Summer Serenade was a varied programme including some English madrigals, two beautiful Scottish Folksong settings by James MacMillan and two works celebrating the joy of singing - Bob Chilcott’s ‘Singing by Numbers’ and the first performance in Colchester of Alan Bullard’s ‘Endless Song’.

Spring concert

Sat, 16 Mar 2024

Jongen’s lyrical and expressive Mass paired with two of John Rutter’s most popular works - his reflective Requiem and the lively Gloria.

Here comes Christmas!

Sun, 3 Dec 2023

Our annual concert of seasonal Christmas music with brass quintet and organ accompaniment, and featuring local children.

Autumn concert

Sat, 18 Nov 2023

Brahms' Ein Deutches Requiem (A German Requiem) and Poulenc's setting of the Gloria.

With Colchester Sinfonia and
Catherine May (soprano)
Edward Ballard (bass)

Summer concert

Sat, 24 Jun 2023

Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

W S Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan: Trial by Jury

Concert performances with Colchester Sinfonietta and soloists from Colchester Choral Society.

Handel's Messiah

Sat, 11 Mar 2023

George Frideric Handel: Messiah

With Colchester Sinfonia and
Gillian Wilson (soprano)
Tim Travers-Brown (countertenor)
Matthew Keighley (tenor)
Edward Ballard (bass)

Music by English composers

Sat, 19 Nov 2022

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols; Benedicite

Gerald Finzi: In Terra Pax; Dies Natalis; Eclogue

Alan Bullard: Images of Peace

With Colchester Sinfonia and
Catherine May (soprano)
Matthew Keighley (tenor)
Edward Grint (bass baritone)
Ruth Young (piano)