Our Queen came to the throne almost exactly sixty years ago to the date of this concert, on 6 February 1952, and 2012 sees the celebrations of her Diamond Jubilee. Some of the music from her splendid coronation features in this programme, contrasted with works from the reign of her illustrious predecessor Elizabeth I. Join us at 7.30pm at St Peter’s Church, St Albans (AL1 3HG) for an evening of fabulously festive music!
The Chamber Choir was saddened to learn of the death on 12 January 2012 of its President, Lady Rosalind Runcie. Our condolences to Lady Runcie’s family.
Lady Runcie’s funeral will be held in St Albans Cathedral on Friday 3 February 2012 at 2.30pm.
Strange but true! Local choir, St Albans Chamber Choir can be seen in a soon-to-be-released film starring British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, famous for his role in the BBC’s series Sherlock and the recent film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The filmWreckers was recently premiered to great acclaim at the London Film Festival in October but will have its UK release on 16th December.
For more information see Press Releases elsewhere on this site
St Albans Chamber Choir is joined by the Abbey Girls Choir for a performance of Britten’s strikingly original settings of old English Christmas texts, A Boy was Born. Get in the mood for the festivities with this and other seasonal offerings from composers from Palestrina and Gabrieli to Poulenc and John Tavener, on Saturday 3 December at 7.30pm, St Saviour’s Church, Sandpit Lane AL1 4DF.
The debut feature from D R Hood is a haunting tale of secrets and lies in the English countryside.
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‘Wreckers‘, starring Claire Foy, Benedict Cumberbatch and Shaun Evans, features many members of St Albans Chamber Choir masquerading as a village church choir
It will have its world premiere at the 55th BFI London Film Festival in the section “New British Cinema” and will be screened on the following dates:
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Visit the film’s page on the official Festival website for details.
Enjoy a trip to the Seaside, venture Full Fathom Five below the waves to meet a Mermaid, and experience a Cloudburst, all without leaving St Albans! Join us for our last concert of the season, Water, water everywhere, on Saturday 2 July at 7.30pm in St Saviour’s Church, Sandpit Lane AL1 4DF
SACC welcomed the Wormser Kantorei, its long-time partner choir from St Albans’s German twin-town Worms, for the 22nd joint concert in their long association. On Saturday 30 April 2011 in St Albans Cathedral the joint choirs performed Ralph Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony, soloists Anna Gorbachyova (soprano) and Toby Stafford-Allen (baritone), and Johannes Brahms’s Schicksalslied, accompanied by St Albans Symphony Orchestra under conductors John Gibbons and Stefan Merkelbach. The two choirs had enjoyed several days of rehearsal and socialising together before the concert, and now look forward to their next meeting in 2013.
The Chamber Choir is delighted to welcome the Wormser Kantorei for our biennial town-twinning concert on Saturday 30 April 2011, at which the joint choirs will perform Ralph Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony, with soloists Anna Gorbachyova (soprano) and Toby Stafford-Allen (baritone) and St Albans Symphony Orchestra, conductors John Gibbons and Stefan Merkelbach. The concert will also include Rawstorne The Cruel Sea and Brahms Schicksalslied.
St Albans Cathedral, 7.30pm.
Full details on the Concerts page
This could be your last chance to enjoy the wonderful acoustic of the neo-Gothic Chapel of All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney (AL2 1AF), as the Centre is due to close later this year. Come and hear masterpieces of the English Renaissance by Byrd, Gibbons, Ramsey and Tye, and the monumental 19-part O bone Jesu by the Scot Robert Carver. 7.30pm, tickets on the door
This was the original idea behind the early music programme Intimations of Mortality. In all the pieces chosen, either the words or the music were composed in the face of imminent death or in the hope of eternal life, but far from making for a miserable evening, the resultant music is sublime, for these works were written in the 16th and 17th centuries in a time of great religious faith. This is a rare opportunity to hear some spectacular pieces, large in scale both in the number of voices and in length compared to most works of this period.
The Chapel of the Pastoral Centre at London Colney will provide a sumptuous acoustic for this programme, and with the Centre due to close at the end of this year, this may be one of the last opportunities to enjoy such ethereally beautiful music in this special venue.
For full details see our Concerts page
