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Good Friday Meditation, Friday 19 April
  Come to a Good Friday Meditation, a feast of readings, images, silence, and music. The music will be performed by St Augustine's Singers and will comprise works by Josquin, Mozart, Fauré and Brahms. Friday 19 April, 12pm St Augustine's Church, Richmond Road, Cambridge CB4 3PS. FREE |
TWO opportunities to see our Christmas programme
You have not one, but TWO opportunities to see our programme 'An International Choral Christmas'! The programme includes music from eight different European countries: England, Wales, France, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Spain and Italy, by composers including Berlioz, Monteverdi and Victoria. You can catch it at St Augustine's Church, Richmond Road, Cambridge CB4 3PS on Saturday 8 December at 6pm, and Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street, CB2 1SU on Saturday 15 December at 1pm. Both events are FREE, with a retiring collection. |
Round and Round: Percy Grainger and Friends on Wednesday 5 December
On Wednesday 5 December, we're performing as part of Round and Round: Percy Grainger and Friends at West Road Music School Concert Hall. This is a programme of orchestral and choral music featuring the work of Percy Grainger, the Australian composer, pianist and folk music collector. This special gala concert will feature the combined forces of Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Voices, St Augustine's SIngers and Symphonia Academica. We'll be singing Love Verses from the Song of Solomon, and we're also part of Father and Daughter - an epic work for five soloists, two choruses, and multiple other instrumentalists! Hope you see you there.  |
Masterpieces of the Baroque on Saturday 10 November
 Come to our next concert on Saturday 10 November, Masterpieces of the Baroque. It will feature Colin Hazel on the keyboard, Michael George on the cello and Alanya Reynolds (soprano). Hope to see you there! |
Good Friday Meditation: Friday 30 March
 Come to a Good Friday Meditation, a feast of words, images and music. The music will be performed by St Augustine's Singers. It will comprise Funeral Ikos by John Taverner Sancta Civitas by Messiaen Ave Verum Corpus by Mozard In Paradisum from the Requiem by Faure Friday 30 March, 12pm St Augustine's Church, Richmond Road, Cambridge CB4 3PS. FREE |
Reviews of Son et Lumière 2
We've had some great feedback from our concert Son et Lumiere 2! 'An incredible event to happen in a small village church.' From soloist Amanda Dean: 'THANK YOU for a fantastic event on Saturday. Properly spectacular - I really enjoyed taking part!' |
Son et Lumière 2, Saturday 17 March 2018
 It will feature the Berio Sequenza III for female voice, a real showpiece that requires acting as well as singing abilities. It also features Wright and and Van't Hoog's Zip 1, Zip 2 and Zip 3, a series a short video observations of daily phenomena. This will provide visual interpretation for a musical work for the choir. Finally, there will be the first performance of Richard Hoadley's Unthinking Things, for choir, electronics and projections of dynamic notations, based around concepts investigated by Bishop George Berkeley in 'A Treatise Concerning he Principles of Human Knowledge' written in 1710. A one-of-a-kind concert that is not to be missed. Saturday 17 March, 6pm St Augustine's Church, Richmond Road, Cambridge CB4 3PS. FREE with retiring collection. |
Merry Christmas
 Our final concert of the year was 'Christmas Bells' at the Michaelhouse in Cambridge on 19th December. The church was full to bursting - we even had to turn people away - and the feedback was excellent: "Lovely concert." "Helped me prepare for thinking about Christmas." The choir's final appearance of 2015 will be at the Midnight Service on Christmas Eve at 11.30pm at St Augustine's Church, Richmond Road, Cambridge. We'll be singing Philip Mead's Christmas Bells and Charles Ives' beautiful carol, Little Star of Bethlehem. |
Concert of Sacred Music for Ascensiontide
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A Concert of Sacred Music for Ascensiontide, Sunday May 10 2015 at 3pm
Come and see the St Augustine's Chamber Choir for their first concert of 2015. The programme includes Monteverdi’s rarely-performed Magnificat A 8 for double choir and musical ensemble. That’s eight individual voice parts plus a group of musicians! There’s also the chance to hear Gorecki’s beautiful Totus Tuus. It's at St Giles Church, Castle St, Cambridge CB3 0AQ. Tickets are available at https://www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/concert/a-concert-of-sacred-music-for-ascensiontide.aspx and cost just £6. |
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