Sincere thanks for a remarkable and memorable evening. It was evident that the audience thoroughly enjoyed our evening of Gilbert & Sullivan, and we all found it to be an enjoyable experience as well. Plus, we successfully achieved our annual target to donate £2K to the Barts Cancer Unit!
Rehearsals for the Autumn term will begin again on Friday 4th September. We will be preparing Elijah for our Come & Sing event in November. And we eagerly anticipate the final act of Parsifal at the beginning of November.
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.
Our Easter Concert at Holy Sepulchre, the National Musicians’ Church, starts with Brahms Symphony No 2 in D major, orchestrated for flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, trombones, tuba, timpani and strings.
After the interval, the evening will continue with the newly co-commissioned work by British vocalist & composer, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange. Based on Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, we are pleased to be one of the 53 choirs from around the world to premiere this exciting repertoire.
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.
Barts Academic Festival Choir & Orchestra 
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