Lewes Baroquefest: Handel Coronation Anthems

Saturday 23 July at 7pm St Michael’s Church, Lewes Programme to include: Handel: Four Coronation Anthems: 1. Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened 2. My Heart Is Inditing 3. The King Shall Rejoice 4. Zadok The Priest Handel: from Messiah: Worthy Is The Lamb Amen chorus plus instrumental music by Handel and Corelli Baroque Collective Singers…

Lewes Baroquefest: Purcell

Wednesday 20 July at 9pm St Michael’s Church, Lewes Programme to include: Purcell: Funeral Sentences Purcell: Hear My Prayer White: Lamentations and soprano solos by Purcell featuring Alexandra Kidgell Baroque Collective Singers Alexandra Kidgell, soprano John Hancorn, musical director Nicholas Houghton, chamber organ Full details and tickets available soon on the Lewes Baroquefest website

Out Of My Head: World Premiere

Out Of My Head by Orlando Gough WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCES Saturday 17 September 2022 2pm Fitzroy House, Cliffe Precinct 2.45pm Lewes Castle 4pm Priory Ruins 4.45pm Fitzroy House, Cliffe Precinct A series of free 20′ performances, flash-mob style Baroque Collective Singers John Hancorn, musical director

Bach St John Passion

The Choir of Hampstead Parish Church with The Baroque Collective Evangelist: Ruairi Bowen Christus: Will Thomas Leader: Alison Bury Directed by Geoffrey Webber Sunday 3 April 2022 at 5pm Hampstead Parish Church, London NW3 6UU music.hampsteadparishchurch.org.uk

Music for Passiontide in Lewes

Sunday 10 April 2022 at 5pm St Michael’s Church, 158 High Street, Lewes BN7 1XU Byrd: Ave Verum Byrd: Miserere Mei Farrant/Hilton: Lord for thy tender mercy’s sake Gibbons: Hosanna to the Son of David Scarlatti: Stabat Mater The Baroque Collective Singers Claire Williams, chamber organ John Hancorn, musical director  

Music for Passiontide in Firle

Sunday 3 April 2022 at 5pm St Peter’s Church, The Street, Firle BN8 6LP Byrd: Ave Verum Byrd: Miserere Mei Farrant/Hilton: Lord for thy tender mercy’s sake Gibbons: Hosanna to the Son of David Scarlatti: Stabat Mater The Baroque Collective Singers Claire Williams, chamber organ John Hancorn, musical director Tickets £12 available here

Sing & Discover Online Workshop: Bach: Magnificat & Handel: Dixit Dominus

In this two-hour online video workshop, with a fifteen minute social break, conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explore Bach’s Magnificat and Handel’s Dixit Dominus. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded illustrations, while participants will join in with some of the choruses. Saturday 22 January…