Thank you to those of you who came to our most recent concert on 7th December; we hope you enjoyed our mix of winter and Christmas music.
Our next concert will be on Sunday 29th March, featuring Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Vivaldi’s Credo and Haydn’s Missa Brevis. If you would like to join us, do come along to our next rehearsal at Nayland Primary School on Thursday 8th January at 8pm or email naylandchoir@gmail.com .
This term we’re working towards a concert on December 15th in Nayland Village Hall with a solstice theme – music from across four centuries to take us from darkness to light. We’ll sing another work by Sarah Quartel, whose music we have been enjoying exploring over the last year, alongside some choral classics by Barber, Lauridsen and Tallis – music that by turn evokes stillness or wakening!
Rehearsals start again on Thursday, September 12th at Nayland Primary School.
Everyone is welcome whether you’re new to singing in parts or an experienced singer – do come and try us out!
If music be the food of love, play on.
We continue our 30th anniversary celebrations with a programme of music inspired by Shakespeare – varying from jazzy settings of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by George Shearing, classical settings of songs from his plays, and familiar tunes from two re-tellings of Shakespeare plays: Kiss Me Kate and West Side Story. As has become our tradition, the summer concert will follow a well-tried recipe: Music, Food and Wine!
Rehearsals start Thursday 25th April, 8pm in Nayland School Hall. Everyone is welcome whether you’re new to singing in parts or an experienced singer – do come and try us out!
The concert will be performed on Friday 5th July.
The concert will take place at St James’ Church, Nayland.
The concert will take place at Nayland Village Hall.
On December 10th, we will be singing the Manchester Carols, a re-telling of the Christmas story with music by Sasha Johnson Manning and words by Carol Ann Duffy. We’ll pair that with a couple of other Christmas pieces and maybe even a bit of audience participation. We plan to have an interval for mulled wine and mince pies in there somewhere too.
Rehearsals start on Thursday 7th September in Nayland School hall, 8pm as usual. The first rehearsal will be an open session (non Christmas themed) for anyone that would like to come and see what the choir is all about. We’ve already had a few enquiries after our last concert, so if you know anyone else who’d like to give us a try, do send them along.
The subs for the term are £40 including score hire and they become payable on your third rehearsal.
Thank you to everyone who came to our sold-out concert ‘Songs of Liberty’ on July 14th!
Next term, we will be preparing for another Christmas concert on December 10th, but this time a warm one in the village hall. More about the music for that in due course but most importantly we start the term with an open rehearsal on September 7th when we will sing a variety of pieces (not Christmas ones!) with the aim of welcoming potential choir members to join us.
If you’d like to try out singing in parts, please do come along!
Friday 14th July at Nayland Village Hall.
Tickets available now on the Nayland Events website.
Tickets include a light supper served from 7:00pm. Concert begins at 7:30pm
Please book tickets in advance to guarantee supper availability.
Secure your seat for our forthcoming performance of Fauré’s beautiful Requiem. Tickets (£10/U18s free) are now available on the Nayland Events website.
This spring, we return to one of the most requested pieces in the choir’s repertoire. For the first time since 2012, we will be performing Fauré’s much-loved Requiem. You can be part of it! We don’t audition and our music director Emma brings out the best in even the most nervous chorister. Rehearsals are every Thursday at 8.00pm in Nayland School. You can even try one or two rehearsals to see whether it’s right for you. See you there?
Nayland Choir 