A Spring Garland in Lewes

Sunday 21 April 2024 at 7pm St Michael’s Church, 158 High Street, Lewes Tickets on sale here A delightful selection of Spring and nature-themed choral music spanning five hundred years in Berwick Church, famous for its Bloomsbury wall paintings. To include Clement Janequin’s Le Chant des Oiseaux (1529), a selection of English madrigals, works by…

A Spring Garland in Berwick

Sunday 21 April 2024 at 3pm Berwick Church, Polegate, East Sussex BN26 6SR Tickets on sale here A delightful selection of Spring and nature-themed choral music spanning five hundred years in Berwick Church, famous for its Bloomsbury wall paintings. To include Clement Janequin’s Le Chant des Oiseaux (1529), a selection of English madrigals, works by…

Handel: Messiah for Doctors for Nepal

A fundraising performance for Doctors for Nepal Handel: Messiah Alexandra Kidgell, soprano Rebecca Leggett, mezzo soprano Richard Bignall, tenor Robert Davies, baritone The Baroque Collective Singers The Baroque Collective Alison Bury, leader John Hancorn, director Sunday 17 December 2023 at 7pm Lewes Town Hall, High Street, Lewes BN7 2QS Tickets £40 / £30 (under 16s…

BREMF Bach & Buxtehude

Saturday 28 October 2023 at 7.30pm St Martin’s Church, Lewes Road, Brighton BN2 3HQ The Baroque Collective Singers join the BREMF Players in the Brighton Early Music Festival in a programme of Bach, Biber and Buxtehude: The BREMF Players Alison Bury leader The Baroque Collective Singers John Hancorn director Sofia Kirwan-Baez and Lucinda Cox sopranos Rebecca Leggett…

Purcell: Fairy Queen

Saturday 1 July 2023 at 7.30pm St Mary’s Church, Kemptown, Brighton BN2 1PR. The Baroque Collective with The Brighton Orpheus Choir. Soloists: Alex Kidgell; Shona Knight; Hugh Cutting; Louis Watkins; Andrew Davies Conducted by Nicholas Houghton For tickets see https://www.brightonorpheus.org

Bach and Handel

Saturday 22 April 2023 at 7pm St Michael’s Church, High St, Lewes BUY TICKETS HERE Bach: Jesu, meine Freude BWV227 Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 Handel: The Ways of Zion do Mourn – Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline HWV264 The Baroque Collective Baroque Collective Singers John Hancorn, conductor

Christmas Baroque

Wednesday 21 December 2022 at 7.30pm St Michael’s Church, Lewes A feast of seasonal music, Christmas songs and motets and audience carols, plus mulled wine and mince pies, including: Bach: Singet dem Herrn Buxtehude: Das neugeborne Kinderlein Praetorius: In dulce jubilo Britten: extracts from Ceremony of Carols; Hymn to the Virgin Baroque Collective Singers John…

Lewes Baroquefest: Sing & Discover: Handel Four Coronation Anthems

Saturday 16 July 2022, 2-6pm St Michael’s Church, 158 High Street, Lewes In this live workshop, with a fifteen minute social break, conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explore Handel’s Four Coronation Anthems. We shall look at the music in some detail while participants will join in with the choruses….