Come and sing… Verdi Requiem!


SUNDAY 3rd JUNE at 2 pm
THE GREAT HALL, ST BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL

Verdi Requiem

AN INSTANT CONCERT FROM SCRATCH!

Bring your music score and join us in singing this rousing piece alongside the orchestra and soloists in the Great Hall on Sunday 3rd June at 2.00 pm – listeners are welcome too!

Free entry – donations welcome.  All proceeds go to Barts Cancer Unit.

Conductor: John Lumley
Leader: Prunella Sedgwick

St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Smithfield, EC1A 7BE
Train/tube: City Thameslink, Barbican, Farringdon or St Paul’s

The Barts Great Hall is an impressive historical environment for our concerts.  If you enjoy singing and like an informal approach, join our choir – we welcome new members.  For details, contact: 020 7588 3635.

Next concert – Monday 16th July at 7.30 pm, Great Hall, Barts – tickets at the door!

Instant Verdi – 20th February 2017


Come and sing… an instant Verdi Requiem

Verdi Requiem montage

Bring a score and join in a sing along in the Great Hall, St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Monday 20th February 2017, 7.30pm

Entry free, donations welcome – proceeds to Barts charities


Barts Academic Festival Choir and Orchestra
Conductor: John Lumley – Leader: Margaret Banwell

St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Smithfield EC1A 7BE
Tube: Barbican, Farringdon or St Paul’s

Barts Great Hall is an impressive historical environment with a distinctive acoustic. If you have a voice and like an informal approach to singing, please join us – we welcome new members.


Next Concert – Monday 20th March 2017 at 7:30 in the Great Hall

Instant Concert


Monday 15th February 2016 at 7.30


  • MOZART REQUIEM
  • HAYDN’S NELSON MASS

…from scratch! Bring scores and join us in The Great Hall, St Bartholomew’s Hospital (near Barbican, Farringdon or St Paul’s tube)


Leader:  Margaret Banwell
Conductor: John Lumley

Entry free, but if you fancy making a donation, we will put it into the pot marked ‘Barts Cancer Unit’

Come and enjoy the evening and bring your friends. Barts Great Hall is an impressive historical environment with a distinctive acoustic. And If you enjoy singing and like an informal approach, please join us – our choir also welcomes new members.


Other dates to note…

EASTER CONCERT:  Monday 14th mARCH 2016 – 7.30pm

New Choir Members


Barts Friday evening Choir welcomes all voices – small, friendly group, just starting to prepare Dvorak Requiem for performance 31 March – if you can sing in tune and have lots of enthusiasm you are welcome, no audition or musical tests. Fridays 7.00 – 9.00, Barts-the-Less (just on the left inside the Hospital Henry VIII Gate, opposite Smithfield Meat Market) – come along (copies available)

ALSO – Instant performance of the Requiems of Mozart and Faure – Barts Great Hall, 7.30 Monday 10 February – bring your own copies

For more information, call 020 7588 3635