The JCS will be in reflective mood as we perform sacred and secular music from the 17th to the 21st centuries by composers from the Baltic, Scandinavia, Britain and beyond in our visit to Northern Sweden in May. Photo © Christopher Williams 2004 On a theme of ‘Songs from darkness to light – Sånger från mörker...

Do join us on 21st March when our programme includes two works that J S  Bach set for double choir – and where he raised the level of technical control and intensity of spiritual involvement to new heights. Our Music Director, Peter Broadbent, describes the pieces: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (1727) – ‘Sing...

Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) was a dear friend of the JCS and one of our first Vice Presidents. We are delighted to be singing two of his works again in our concert ‘Sing to the Lord’ on 21 March. In I love the Lord, he set words from Psalm 116 in a powerful a cappella...

Our concert ‘Sing to the Lord’ includes pieces from Dusk Songs by Kerry Andrew, commissioned by The Ebor Singers and dedicated to her father. draw down the clouds before the first plush hours of sweetened hushsleep swim in the candlelight as night paints upon night bury your dusksongs deep   She has described Dusk...

Join us on 21st March for a programme spanning three centuries of choral music, when two of J S Bach’s great Motets will be paired with deeply spiritual music by two modern English composers, Jonathan Harvey and Kerry Andrew. Bach’s Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied – Sing to the Lord a new song...