European Cathedral Singers will be be singing in Florence and Sienna in the last weekend of March. Our summer cathedral visit is to York Minster from Monday August 7th to Sunday August 13th, where we will be singing in all services while the choir is on holiday.
Our annual Choral Festival this year will be held in The Hague on Saturday 10th June 2017.
We also held a very successful choral workshop in The Hague in February: Byrd Songs and other Music, led By Christina Edelen.
Pictures by P. Buerms and Pleuntje Jellema Murray
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Follow this link for some pictures from this year’s choral festiveal.
With thanks to Cornelia Roeleveld from The Hague.
Congratulations to Alicia Fielding Camacho, Caroline Walcot and Karalyn Gardner, of St Andrew’s Church of Scotland in Brussels, for passing the Voice for Life Silver Medal exams.
If you are interested in doing a Voice for Life Bronze or Silver Award, please let us know.
A group of singers known as Cantores Willibrordi (so named because of the connection between St Willibrord, Ripon and Luxembourg) will be singing in Ripon Cathedral over the weekend of Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th July. The choir will be directed by Alan Carlisle with Gordon Appleton as organist. We are looking for singers in all voice parts. Singers will be responsible for arranging their own accommodation.
Music will include a Mass setting composed by Alan on the occasion of the Anglican Church in Luxembourg’s 50th anniversary; this will be its first performance outside Luxembourg. Music for this, as well as details of other music to be sung, will be emailed to singers well in advance.
If you are interested in joining this group, please let Pam Carlisle (pamela(at)sarumlux.net) know as soon as possible.
At St Andrew’s Church of Scotland, chaussee de Vleurgat 181 – 1050 Brussels. ‘Contact us’ for more information. Or via our Facebook Page RSCM NW Europe & European Cathedral Singers.
Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral will present the Bach Johannes-Passion at 19H on Good Friday, 25 March 2016. Entry is free, but online registration is required at www.passiontoperform.eu. Holy Trinity is at Rue Capitaine Crespel 29, 1050 Bruxelles (near Metro Louise).
The Evangelist is Joris Bosman and Christus is Ivan Ludlow, with a fine team of supporting soloists and chorus, and an orchestra of graduates of the Royal Conservatories. Further details on www.passiontoperform.eu.
Quite apart from the wonderful organ and acoustic at Gloucester, it is an incredible privilege to be surrounded by some of the finest english church architecture in existence (and our own in-house heritage expert to explain some of it!).
The cloisters are a very quiet and peaceful part of the Cathedral. It is easy to imagine these cloisters in use when they were first built hundreds of years ago.
Choir members admire the surroundings as we assemble before a service.
Just few days to go now before ECS assemble in Gloucester for a week’s singing in the Cathedral!
With washing lines all over NW Europe heaving with freshly cleaned whites, frantic packing and last-minute music sorting no doubt in full swing, maybe there is just time to remind friends and family to come along?
Alternatively, if they can’t manage it why not point them to this blog where we will be posting some updates during the week for everyone to enjoy?
The public programme is as follows:
| Monday Evensong | 17:30 |
| Tuesday Evensong | 17:30 |
| Wednesday Choral Eucharist | 17:30 |
| Friday Evensong | 17:30 |
| Saturday Evensong | 16:30 |
| Sunday Sung Eucharist | 10:15 |
| Sunday Evensong | 15:00 |
The choir’s programme can be found in the members’ area of this site.
…and yes, I will iron it once it is dry!
With thanks to all involved at Holy Trinity Brussels, a very successful choral festival was held in early May.
Under the inspring direction of Matthew Beetschen of Dunblane Cathedral in Scotland and RSCM Area Chair for Scotland, the choir of more than 40 singers from several choirs in the Archdiocese and organist David Mitchell put on an impressive final service after a day of intense and fun work.
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