News
Commissioning programme continues in 2010/11
Following Orlando Gough's Ice and Steve Block's Solaris, for the third year running the Chorus will première its own commission at a London venue. This year the new work will be Will Todd's setting of Keats' poem Ode to a Nightingale in the Barbican Hall, programmed with Brahms' German Requiem on Saturday 11 May 2011.
Solaris is Première of the Fortnight
We are delighted to report that the first performance at the Barbican on May 22nd 2010 of Steve Block's Solaris was chosen to feature as Première of the Fortnight in Classical Music Magazine. That Steve's piece caught the imagination of the reviewer, Glyn Môn Hughes, is indicative of both the appeal of the sun as a musical subject and Steve's choral expression of its universal influence.
BBC website appearance
Recently Robert Wyatt, guest editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, asked people who sang in amateur choirs around the UK to send in recordings. As a result of this we can be heard singing Tallis' If Ye Love Me via the site. Click here to listen
"Haileybury at Christmas...this year was the very best"
It was a white 2009 Haileybury Chapel Christmas concert but our loyal audience braved the snow and ice to enjoy a great evening of traditional carols and classic Christmas songs, including Walking in the Air. More than £1150 was raised for The Pepper Foundation.
Hertfordshire Chorus appears on BBC2's The Choir
Our most recent TV appearance was on BBC 2’s The Choir on Tuesday 15th September 2009. In this third episode of the latest series, the newly-created South Oxhey Community Choir was given a platform to sing Barber’s Agnus Dei at the end of a performance by the Hertfordshire Chorus of Verdi’s Requiem in St Albans Abbey. The Chorus enjoyed working with South Oxhey in preparation for this concert and some of its singers joined in the performance of the Barber piece.
Photo Phil Bowman
Willow Foundation Christmas Concert at St Albans Cathedral
Hertfordshire Chorus enjoyed the warm atmosphere of the Willow Foundation's 10th Anniversary Christmas Carol Concert in St Albans Abbey last December.
The evening of festive entertainment included carols and readings from celebrity supporters and special day beneficiaries.