We are eagerly anticipating our Saints and Angels concert on Saturday 13th May. This marriage of poetry and music, together with our Voice Factory Saints and Angels schools’ project is introduced here by Birmingham’s Young Poet Laureate, Iona Mandal. Get tickets here.
Susan Spain-Dunk in 1916
We have an exciting online education project for secondary schools for this concert – click HERE.
You might be interested to know about our 13th May concert’s orchestral piece. It is by Susan Spain-Dunk, her Suite for String Orchestra in B minor. Susan Spain-Dunk (22 February 1880 Folkestone, England – 1 January 1962 London) was an English composer, conductor and violinist/violist. This Suite was written in 1920. More biographical details are available online HERE.
Cecilia McDowall
We are enjoying our rehearsals this spring with two new departures for the choir: Benjamin Britten’s The Company of Heaven and Cecilia McDowall‘s Ave Maris Stella. Finishing our trio of choral works for our 13th May concert is Finzi’s superb miniature, Magnificat.
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If you are interested in joining the choir, read THIS PAGE.
We are enjoying our rehearsals this spring with two new departures for the choir: Benjamin Britten’s The Company of Heaven and Cecilia McDowall’s Ave Maris Stella. Finishing our trio of choral works for our 13th May concert is Finzi’s superb miniature, Magnificat.
If you are interested in joining the choir, read THIS PAGE.
“A choir, a concert, a cuppa and a chat this Christmas…”
On Saturday 17th December at 2 pm, come and enjoy Carols for All at St Martin’s. Celebrate Christmas with the City of Birmingham Choir in the beautiful surroundings of St Martin’s in the Bull Ring in an afternoon of lovely carols, filling the air with harmony and raising money for charity, Places of Welcome.
Click the links on the website to get more information and to book tickets.
Tickets are now on sale for our annual, wonderful performance of Handel’s Messiah in Symphony Hall on Friday 9th December at 7 pm. Don’t miss the chance to hear the City of Birmingham Choir in fine form, singing this choral masterwork in which we are experts. Fine soloists and the renowned City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and conductor Adrian Lucas complete the bill.
“A choir, a concert, a cuppa and a chat this Christmas…”
On Saturday 17th December at 2 pm, come and enjoy Carols for All at St Martin’s. Celebrate Christmas with the City of Birmingham Choir in the beautiful surroundings of St Martin’s in the Bull Ring in an afternoon of lovely carols, filling the air with harmony and raising money for charity, Places of Welcome.
Click the links on the website to get more information and to book tickets.
Tickets are now on sale for our Centenary concert at Symphony Hall on 6th November! A wonderful programme of works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, perfect for a Sunday afternoon. The choral highlight is the outstanding A Sea Symphony.
We are also selling tickets for Handel’s Messiah in Symphony Hall on Friday 9th December.
Click the links on the website to get more information and to book tickets.
Our first rehearsal back for the 22/23 season will be on Tuesday 6 September. This is a special open rehearsal as we welcome all our current members back from the summer break and any prospective members who are coming along for the first time.
To give you plenty of time to catch up with friends and meet prospective members, refreshments will be available from 5.30pm, so please make every effort to arrive early at The Priory Rooms. This will also be extremely helpful in ensuring that our librarians are able to distribute music in a timely fashion.
This leaflet gives more information to any who may be considering joining us.
Look at Join the Choir page.
Singing in Tewkesbury Abbey in our ‘Faire is the Heaven’ concert.
Tickets are now on sale for our Centenary concert at Symphony Hall on 6th November! A wonderful programme of works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, perfect for a Sunday afternoon. The choral highlight is the outstanding A Sea Symphony.
We are also selling tickets for Handel’s Messiah in Symphony Hall on Friday 9th December.
Click the links on the website to get more information and to book tickets.
Come to Tewkesbury Abbey on Saturday 11th June for a wonderful evening of choral and orchestral music.
Travel through time from the 16th to the 20th centuries, bathing in the glorious sounds of William Byrd, Thomas Weelkes, Claudio Monteverdi, Handel, Mendelssohn, Holst and William Harris. Harris’s pair of wonderful anthems, Faire is the Heaven and Bring Us, O Lord God form the centrepiece.
With fine soloists and our friends, the Westminster Chamber Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Choir are so looking forward to this concert at our favourite out-of-town venue.
TICKETS can be bought online via Ticketsource or on the door (e.g. if the online site stops selling a few hours before the concert, don’t worry – you can buy tickets when you arrive).
We do so hope you can be there.
We recently held a hugely enjoyable event with three local schools, Voice Factory Commonwealth – continuing our long-standing Voice Factory outreach programme as part of our centenary education project. Linked to the Commonwealth Games, we had three partner schools, each hosting a musician – African drumming, Bhangra dancing and Gospel singing. We also joined forces with the schools to perform John Barber’s The Rain Queen, which we premiered in 2015.
Now we are looking forward to our concert in Tewkesbury Abbey on 11th June, Faire is the Heaven. Click HERE for more information and tickets.
Would you like to buy our engaging and colourful Centenary Book? Click HERE for details.
