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!
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!
This year the Choral Festival was hosted by the Anglican Church of St. John & St. Philip The Hague and it took place on June 10th 2017. Our conductor for the day was Lee Dunleavy and our organist was Christina Edelen.
Over 80 singers turned up and we all had a marvellous singing experience that day. To give an impression of the day here are some photos taken by Fiona Middelkoop during the event.
Two weeks ago we announced a new anthem and gave Penny Granger, who commissioned it, the opportunity to tell us more about this commission.
Now we have even more information for you, this time from the composer himself, Bill Ives (a.k.a. Grayston Ives).
Saturday May 7th ECS had our second rehearsal for our week in York. We went through quite a lot of music, some of it well known, some of it new to ECS singers. One particular piece was so new we actually gave it the first sing-through ever at yesterdays rehearsal!
The piece, ‘Our last awakening’, was written by well known singer, choral director and composer Bill Ives, who writes music under the name Grayston Ives.
We will be performing this piece in York and it will be a world premiere, attended D.V. by both the commissioner and the composer. So we will be doing some more rehearsing on it…
If you would like to know more about the piece, read Penny Granger’s story on this commission.
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