This is your chance to sing traditional carols with the JCS, when we perform our 2018 Christmas concerts in Thame and Twickenham! As well as leading the audience in some ‘Carols for Choirs’ favourites, we’ll be singing seasonal music from across the centuries by composers such as Byrd, Sweelinck, Victoria, Mendelssohn, Poulenc, Vaughan Williams,...
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We mark the 125th Anniversary of the death of Tchaikovsky with a programme of choral music mostly written for the Russian Orthodox Church, but as well as featuring the two giants of 19th and 20th century Russian music – Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov – we shall be ranging wider in terms of composers and periods....
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This is your chance to join the JCS in ‘Motets Divers’ – an open choral workshop led by Peter Broadbent as we explore some of Francis Poulenc’s a cappella masterpieces, including: Quatre motets pour un temps de penitence Salve Regina Exultate Deo The workshop will be held in the glowing acoustic of St James’s...
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We mark the Centenary of the death one of the great figures of English music, Sir Hubert Parry, in a programme which features some of his part songs and motets. Our performances on 7 July in Kew and 14 July in Oakley complement Parry’s works with other great choral favourites composed from the mid-19th...