Southport Bach Choir
Registered Charity Number 505751
45th Season (2009/10)
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Southport Bach Choir has been bringing choral music to Southport for more than 40 years. The choir has around 60 amateur singers and performs mainly religious music. Despite our name we do not only sing music by J.S. Bach, see our full list of works we have sung ordered by composer or date. We used to be called the Southport Bach Society but after too many enquiries asking when our lectures were held we changed it to the Southport Bach Choir. The choir is conducted by Ian Wells.
We perform three to four concerts in a season and normally at least one of them uses a professional orchestra and soloists. The orchestra is usually a mixture of students from the Royal Northern College of Music, who are just starting on their professional career, and experienced players from the north-west's established orchestras. However, in 2009 we were lucky enough to be joined by the Eighteenth Century Sinfonia playing period instruments for our performance of Haydn's The Creation and December's Coronation to Christmas concert.
Also this year we have put on a 'Come and Sing' concert where we invited other singers to join us to sing Fauré's Requiem and Vivaldi's Gloria. Proceeds from this concert will be split between choir funds and purchasing more staging to give us more room when we perform concerts in Holy Trinity. Over 150 additional singers took part making a choir of over 200!
Read reviews of our Summer 2004 concert (Monteverdi Vespers) and Summer 2005 concert (Bach Ascension Oratorio/Magnificat).
History of the Society.
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Come and Sing
Thank you to everyone who took part. We had over 200 in the massed choir and many complements on the performance they gave of Faure Requiem and Vivaldi Gloria..
December 12, 2009
Coronation to Christmas
Handel - Coronation Anthems
Mathias - Ave Rex
Charpentier - Messe de Minuit
February 6th, 2010
Come and Sing
Vivaldi - Gloria in D
Fauré - Requiem
Rehearsal 2.30 p.m to 5.30 p.m.
Concert 7.30 p.m.
March 27, 2010
English Music
Parry - I Was Glad
Parry - Blest Pair of Sirens
Parry - Songs of Farewell
Britten - Hymn to St Cecilia
Britten - Rejoice in the Lamb
June 19, 2010
Sacred and Profane
Poulenc - Gloria
Orff - Carmina Burana
All concerts start at 7.30 pm at Holy Trinity Church, Southport - Unless otherwise stated
Concessions available on ticket prices for Children, OAPs, etc.
For more information contact our Hon. Secretary: Mrs A. Taylor: (01704) 229416