We are pleased and excited to be holding our Christmas 2025 concert back in The Great Hall at Barts North Wing following the two-year restoration programme.
Come and see the Hogarth paintings, join in with audience carols and start your festive season in an astounding venue. And with the proceeds from our concerts and events going to Barts Cancer Unit, you help us to continue making a difference for patients, their families and staff.
Wishing you the best for the Season, we hope to see you there!
From all at Barts Academic Festival Choir & Orchestra
Nearest Transport
Train – City Thameslink (Holborn Viaduct) Tube – St Paul’s, Barbican, Farringdon Bus – 8, 25, 46, 56, 59, 133
Thanks to all the musicians and singers on Monday night at our Dvorak Autumn Concert. And to our helpers for organising and serving refreshments at our penultimate event in the National Musicians’ Church.
We have appreciated the incredible support and friendship of Holy Sepulchre during the closure of the Great Hall at Barts. Last season, we raised £2,000 for the Cancer Unit at Barts – to be used for improving facilities for patients and staff. We also donated to Holy Sepulchre from our Come & Sing events.
Thank you all for your continued support and donations, we know it will make a difference to the Cancer Unit.
Come and sing… No need to book – listeners welcome too!
We continue this term preparing for our next event, an instant performance of MozartRequiem, FauréRequiem and Haydn NelsonMass – favourites and well-known repertoire for seasoned singers.
Join us on Saturday 22nd November at Holy Sepulchre, find your voice section and take a seat.
Baton down at 2 pm, when we will be joined by soloists and the orchestra. Refreshment will be available during the breaks and the afternoon’s event is expected to finish by 5 pm.
Entry is free! Donations to Barts Cancer Unit and Holy Sepulchre are welcome (cash only).
Venue
Holy Sepulchre, Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2DQ
Nearest public transport
Train – City Thameslink (Holborn Viaduct) Tube – St Paul’s, Barbican, Farringdon Bus – 8, 25, 46, 56, 59, 133
Do send a message via our Contact Us page if you have any queries.
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Joanna Forbes L’Estrange for attending our Easter Concert to hear us perform her new work, A Season to Sing – a re-imagining of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Having Joanna in the audience and engaging in conversation with her was a truly wonderful experience.
After a well-deserved break, choir rehearsals commence on Friday 9th May at 7 pm in Barts-the-Less Church in preparation for our Opera Day taking place on Saturday 10th May of Verdi’s Il Trovadore, 2-5 pm at Holy Sepulchre Church on Holborn Viaduct.
And starting on Friday 16th May, the choir will be rehearsing CPE Bach’s Magnificat for soloists, choir and chamber orchestra, to be performed as part of our Summer Concert.
SAVE THE DATE
Friday 9th May – rehearsal of Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Saturday 10th May – Opera Performance Day, 2-5 pm at Holy Sepulchre
Friday 16th May – start rehearsing CPE Bach’s Magnificat
Monday 7th July – Summer Concert, 7.30 pm at Holy Sepulchre
Join us at Holy Sepulchre, Holborn Viaduct, for an instant concert of Brahms Requiem – an informal sing-through with the choir, orchestra and soloists.
Turn up with your music before 2 pm, find a chair in your voice section or audience section, and await the conductor’s baton. No need to register.
Entry is free but cash donations to Barts Cancer Unit/Holy Sepulchre Church are most welcome.
The session will be finished before 5 pm.
For enquiries, please send a message through our Contact Us page.
Join us for an evening in the company of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto that tells of unrequited love, followed by Cherubini’s Requiem in C Minor, singled out for praise by Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms some two hundred years prior.
Our concerts are currently hosted at ‘The Musicians’ Church’ – Holy Sepulchre Church, Holborn Viaduct – opposite the Old Bailey, around the corner from Barts Hospital.
All ticket profits are donated to Barts Cancer Unit towards that something extra for patients and staff. It would be great to have your company too.
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