Somerset Chamber Choir

Somerset Chamber Choir is a choir based in the county of Somerset, England.

Somerset Chamber Choir
Also known asSCC
OriginSomerset, England, United Kingdom
GenresClassical
Years active1984 (1984) -present
Websitewww.somersetchamberchoir.org.uk

The choir was formed in 1984 by former members of Somerset Youth Choir,[1][2] and typically gives two concerts annually. Initially, these were mainly around Taunton, but in July 1992 the choir gave it first Wells Cathedral concert. Since 1994, the choir has staged an annual concert with professional orchestra and soloists at Wells Cathedral every summer, with another at King's College Chapel, Taunton earlier in the year, plus occasional other performances around Somerset and beyond, including a trip to Berlin in 2013 when they joined Berliner Kantorei to sing Haydn’s Creation.[3]

Richard Laing has been the choir's musical director since Autumn 2017, succeeding Graham Caldbeck who was in the post for the previous 26 years and is now Conductor Emeritus. Dame Emma Kirkby is Patron of the choir, and has performed with the choir on five occasions, the first being in Bach's St John Passion in King's College Chapel, Taunton in 1988,[4] and most recently in Bach's Mass in B minor at Wells Cathedral in July 2011.[5][6]

The choir will next perform at Wells Cathedral on Saturday 29th July 2023, in a programme entitled UN BANQUET CÉLESTE featuring FAURÉ: REQUIEM and music by Poulenc, Part, Castagnet, Messiaen & Gounod

See also

References
  1. "25 years for Somerset Chamber Choir". Somerset Times. July 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
  2. Sowden, Steve (12 April 2009). "Somerset Chamber Choir to celebrate 25th anniversary". Somerset County Gazette. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
  3. "Somerset Chamber Choir past concerts". Somerset Chamber Choir. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
  4. "Somerset Chamber Choir concert archive". Somerset Chamber Choir. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
  5. "One of world's greatest sopranos set to perform Bach masterpiece in cathedral". Wells Journal. 28 July 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
  6. Maddocks, Andrew (11 August 2011). "Choir proves its cultural worth with passionate performance". Wells Journal. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
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