Our Annual Evensong at the Bavo Kerk, Haarlem.
Come and listen to a traditional British Evensong service at the Historic Bavo Kerk of Haarlem. Director Martin van Bleek with James Pollard on the world famous Müller Organ.
St Edmundsbury 2018 – psalms
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Gordon Appleton
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Gordon Appleton, a great friend of RSCM Northwest Europe and European Cathedral Singers.
More details can be found at the RSCM website here. Elsewhere on the web, a page with some memories of gordon from around the world has been set up on legacy.com.
As it turned out, for many of us our last memory of Gordon will be of his visits during our time at York Minster in August 2017. Here Gordon (centre) and organist James Pollard are admiring Jos’ erudite encapsulation of a week’s singing into three sentences.
Another Premiere!
Last August our choir ECS were privileged to perform the World (UK) and Netherlands premieres of a new piece – Our Last Awakenings by Grayston Ives, commissioned specially for ECS by member Penny – at York Minster and the St Bavo Kerk Haarlem, respectively.
Most of us probably thought that this would be enough excitement for a while, but we are excited to announce the forthcoming premiere of a new piece by Stevie Wishart at our annual Choral festival. See below for more details about the event.
We are heading for another premiere, this time in Paris in November – it never rains but it pours!
More on that one soon.
2018 Choral Festival update
We have updated our event listing for this year’s RSCM NW Europe and Arch-deaconary of North West Europe Choral Festival, this year to be held in Brussels.
If you are interested in attending and are a member of an affiliated choir, then your Choir Director or other RSCM contact already has all the information that you need. Failing that, interested singers can contact us directly!
Singing weekend announced!
ECS members should look out for an email announcing our singing weekend at Kasteel De Berckt, in early April. To be led by well-known UK choral director Gordon Appleton, this weekend promises to be chock-full of great music and singing!
A small number of places are still available – interested singers can contact us.
13/8-19/8 ECS singing at St. Edmundsbury Cathedral
From Monday 13/8 up to Sunday 19/8 ECS will be singing the services at St. Edmundsbury Cathedral in Bury St. Edmunds.
ECS members can find information on the members page – any interested new singers can contact us to find out more.
As usual there will be three rehearsals to prepare for this event in April, May and June. See you in April!
Events for 2018
We have just published our list of events for 2018. Click on “Events” above to see the details
Join a singing day focusing on Matins music on February 17th in The Hague. Or find out more about our planned singing weekend from April 6th to 8th or prepare for the ECS August Cathedral week (13-19 August) at Bury St. Edmunds?
We are also looking forward to our annual Choral Festival, to be held in Brussels on June 9th 2018.
Last but not least a weekend in Paris to rehearse and sing in a special choir to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armistice of 1918.
Check the event list now, and come back regularly for updates!
13-19 August St. Edmundsbury Cathedral
For the 21st year running the European Cathedral Singers will sing the weekly services for a week in August in a British cathedral. This year we will visit st Edundsbury Cathedral, Bury St. Edmunds, from Monday 13th to Sunday 19th of August.
If you are a keen singer, why not join us to sing, or visit Bury St Edmunds during that week and attend one of the services?
Saturday 9th June RSCM NW Europe Area Festival, Brussels (BE)
At this event 200 years of Anglican presence in Brussels will be celebrated. Our hosts will be the Pro-cathedral of Holy trinity Brussels, and the venue will be the Eglise Royale.
Singers from choirs all over NW Europe will assemble for a day of singing led by Piers Maxim. Rehearsals to be held in the morning and early afternoon, leading up to a service of Choral Evensong at the end of the day.
Music will be based on the new RSCM Festival Book ‘King of Glory, King of Peace’. A special “way ahead” discount is available – contact us for details.
Along with music from the book ,we will be singing the Byrd preces and responses (ed. Watkins Shaw, OUP/CMS), a piece by Piers, and a new commission by composer Stevie Wishart.
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