Saturday 24 April 2021, 4-6.15pm Online via Zoom Tickets £10. Book here: https://www.trybooking.co.uk/YYK 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 Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C minor. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded…
Saturday 20 March 2021, 4-6.15pm Online via Zoom Tickets £10. 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 Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Harmonie Mass. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded illustrations, while participants will…
Saturday 27 February 2021, 4-6.15pm Online via Zoom Tickets £10. Book here: https://www.trybooking.co.uk/UNM 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 St Matthew Passion. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded illustrations, while participants…
Saturday 23 January 2021 4-6.15pm via Zoom Tickets £10. Book here: https://www.trybooking.co.uk/UNL 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 Handel’s Messiah. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded illustrations, while participants will join in…
Join conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore in a musical exploration of Bach’s wonderful Christmas Oratorio on Saturday 14 November at 4pm. Discover the origins and cultural background, explore the music in some detail, with recorded illustrations, and join in with several choruses. Sat 14 Nov 2020, 4-6.15pm: Bach: Christmas…
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 Purcell’s semi-opera Dido and Aeneas, the story of Dido the queen of Carthage and her doomed love for Aeneas, the prince of Troy. We shall look at the music in some…
Sunday 13 September 2020, 6-7pm Grange Gardens, Eastport Lane, Lewes BN7 1TL Tickets: suggested donation £10 Age 16 and under free Advance booking only Sir John Tomlinson, bass Alexandra Kidgell, soprano Piers Adams, recorder The Baroque Collective leader Alison Bury Baroque Collective Singers directed by John Hancorn Featuring arias and choruses by Handel, Purcell, Mozart, and…
Tales of love, marriage and murder, a heroic princess and a hymn to the rising sun. This concert of English and German partsongs features harpist Helen Arnold and pianist Nancy Cooley with the Baroque Collective Singers directed by John Hancorn and Tony Jay. Music for women’s, men’s and mixed voices by Brahms, Schubert, Haydn, Britten,…
Sunday 22 December at 7pm, St Michael’s Church, 158 High St, Lewes BN7 1XU Sally Matthews, soprano Rebecca Leggett, mezzo soprano Xavier Hetherington, tenor Brindley Sherratt, bass Baroque Collective Singers The Baroque Collective Alison Bury, leader John Hancorn, director
Sunday 15 December 2019 at 7pm St Anne’s Church, High Street, Lewes BN7 1RJ Fundraising Christmas concert in aid of Lewes Amnesty Group John Hancorn, director Programme to include: Gjeilo: O Magnum Mysterium with Joel Penrose, cello Harold Darke: In the Bleak Midwinter with the Priory Quartet Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols with the…
Sunday 17 November 2019 at 3pm Glyndebourne, Lewes BN8 5UU Carol Kelly, piano John Hancorn, conductor The Baroque Collective Singers with Felicity Lott, soprano; Alex Kidgell, soprano; Rebecca Leggett, mezzo soprano; Thalie Knights, mezzo soprano; Paul Austin Kelly, tenor; Andrew Wicks, tenor; Stephen Charlsworth, bass and members of The Baroque Collective: Alison Bury, violin; Julia…
Thursday 18 July 2019 at 9.00pm St Michael’s Church, 157 High Street, Lewes BN7 1XU Baroque Collective Singers Pippa Dames-Longworth, mezzo soprano Andrew Robinson, baritone Nicholas Houghton, organ John Hancorn, musical director From Wilbye to Whitacre, Purcell’s Fairy Queen, Handel, Pearsall, and a twilit selection of English madrigals, the Baroque Collective Singers’ night-inspired programme is…
Friday 14 December 2018 at 8pm St Anne’s Church, Lewes Beautiful choral music by candlelight The Baroque Collective Singers John Hancorn, conductor Sebastian Comberti, cello Nancy Cooley, piano Programme included: Gaudete (trad) Britten: Wolcum Yule from ‘A Ceremony of Carols’ Victoria: O Magnum Mysterium Riu Riu Chiu (trad) Britten: Hymn to the Virgin Ola Gjeilo:…
Saturday 16 Feburary 2019 | 7.30pm at St Michael’s Church, High Street, Lewes BN7 1XU
Winter of the World: Sunday 18 November 2018, All Saints Centre, Lewes Baroque Collective Singers John Hancorn, conductor and baritone The Everyman Ensemble Susan Moate, violin Oscar Morgan, tenor Nancy Cooley, piano Helen Glavin, piano and reader Jonathan Cullen, reader Music, poetry and archive photography. The Baroque Collective Singers will perform: Brahms: How Lovely Are…
