AND BEYOND 2024-25. . .
Here is a sneak preview of the Choir's plans beyond the current season
Beyond 22 November 2025 all dates are still provisional
22 November 2025 French Masterpieces of the 20th Century
Poulenc Gloria
Ravel Ma Mère L’oye
Duruflé Requiem
December 2025 Christmas Crackers
March 2026 Beethoven Missa Solemnis
May 2026 Favourite Sacred Choruses
November 2026 Walton Belshazzar’s Feast
December 2026 Christmas Crackers
March 2027 Dvorak Stabat Mater
CELEBRITY CONCERT: MITHRAS PIANO TRIO
Wednesday 9 October 2024, 7.30pm
St Mary's Creative Space, Chester
Haydn: Piano Trio in E flat major
Enescu: Piano Trio in A minor
Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat major
Tickets for this concert: £18. Season Tickets for all six concerts are available: £64
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CELEBRITY CONCERT: MEERA MAHARAJ flute; DOMINIC DEGAVINO piano
Wednesday 13 November 2024, 7.30pm
St Mary's Creative Space, Chester
Hummel: Sonata in D major
Gabriel Fauré: Sonata No 1
Blaz Pucihar: Sonata for Flute & piano
Mason: The Butterfly & the Stone
Chick Corea: Free Fall
Geoff Eales: Remembrance
Geoff Eales: In the Pocket
Tickets for this concert: £18. Season Tickets for all six concerts are available: £64
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A GALA NIGHT AT THE OPERA
23 November 2024, 7.30pm
With international opera stars
ANITA WATSON soprano
CHARNE ROCHFORD tenor
Chester Cathedral
Chester Music Society Choir
Liverpool Sinfonia
Graham Jordan Ellis conductor
Favourite arias and choruses from Wagner, Verdi , Purcell, Gershwin, Mozart, Leoncavallo, Donizetti, Puccini, Bizet.
Including Rigoletto, Nabucco, La Traviata, The Magic Flute...and more
tickets, priced at £30 (nave), £25 (West Steps) and £15 (side aisles).
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CELEBRITY CONCERT: THE COULL STRING QUARTET
Wednesday 11 December 2024, 7.30pm
St Mary's Creative Space, Chester
Mozart: String Quartet in G major
Prokofiev: String Quartet No 1 in B minor
Beethoven: Quartet in E minor, Razumovsky
Tickets for this concert: £18. Season Tickets for all six concerts are available: £64
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CHOIR: CHRISTMAS CRACKERS
Monday 16 December 2024, 7.30pm
Chester Cathedral
Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason presenter
Chester Cathedral Saturday Singing Club (Tim McLachlan Director)
Chester Music Society Choir
Chester Philharmonic Orchestra
Graham Jordan Ellis conductor
tickets, priced at £30 (nave), £25 (West Steps) and £15 (side aisles). The side aisles will be fitted with large viewing screens for improved visibility
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Celebrate a family Christmas with Chester Music Society Choir, Chester Philharmonic Orchestra and the children of Chester Cathedral Saturday Singing club. We also extend a very warm welsome to our guest presenter Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason.
CELEBRITY CONCERT: PETER EDGE, baritone; JOHN GOUGH, piano
Wednesday 8 January 2025, 7.30pm
St Mary's Creative Space, Chester
English songs: Songs of Travel, A Shropshire Lad and more.
George ButterworthFrom a Shropshire Lad |
Songs of the Countryside
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Ralph Vaughan WilliamsSongs of Travel |
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Loveliest Of Trees When I Was One And Twenty Look Not In My Eyes Think No More, lad The Lads In Their Hundreds Is My Team Ploughing? |
Michael Head: Sweet Chance, That Led My Steps Abroad A Vagabond Song Tewkesbury Road Limehouse Reach John Ireland: When Lights Go Rolling Round The Sky Great Things Ralph Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea |
The Vagabond Let Beauty Awake The Roadside Fire Youth And Love In Dreams The Infinite Shining Heavens Whither Must I Wander Bright Is The Ring Of Words I Have Trod The Upward And The Downward Slope |
Tickets for this concert: £18. Season Tickets for all six concerts are available: £64
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CELEBRITY CONCERT: ANTONINA SUHANOVA, piano
Wednesday 12 February 2025, 7.30pm
St Mary's Creative Space, Chester
Bach Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor, Book 1
Bach Prelude and Fugue in G major, Book 2
Shostakovich Prelude and Fugues in F# minor, A major and D minor, Op.87-
Mozart Fantasy in C minor, K.475
Schumann Fantasy in C major, Op.17
Tickets for this concert: £18. Season Tickets for all six concerts are available: £64
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CELEBRITY CONCERT: GUY JOHNSTON, cello; MELVYN TAN, piano
Wednesday 12 March 2025, 7,30pm
St Mary's Creative Space, Chester
Saint-Saens: Cello Sonata No. 1 in C minor
Strauss: Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 6
Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise, Op. 3
Chopin: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65
Tickets for this concert: £18. Season Tickets for all six concerts are available: £64
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CHOIR: SPLENDOURS OF THE BAROQUE
Saturday 15 March 2025, 7.30pm
Chester Cathedral
Handel: Dixit Dominus
Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Trumpets
Bach: Magnificat
Georgie Malcolm soprano
Georgia Ellis soprano
Jess Conway mezzo soprano
Christopher Littlewood tenor
Billy Kyle bass
Julie Baker, Peter Athans trumpets
Chester Music Society Choir
Liverpool Sinfonia
Graham Jordan Ellis conductor
tickets, priced at £30 (nave), £25 (West Steps) and £15 (side aisles).
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CHOIR: ROSSINI: PETITE MESSE SOLENELLE
Saturday 17 May 2025, 7.30pm
Chester Cathedral
Heather Buckmaster soprano
Joyce Tindsley mezzo-soprano
Joseph Buckmaster tenor
Armand Rabot bass
Chester Music Society Choir
Graham Eccles Piano
Jon Barton harmonium
Graham Jordan Ellis conductor
tickets, priced at £30 (nave), £25 (West Steps) and £15 (side aisles).
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SHOWCASE CONCERTS
23 October 2024, 7.30pm
Helsby Concert Band
Set up in 2019 by Jacky Keating to give people of all ages and levels of experience the opportunity to play in an ensemble. They play a wide variety of genres of music from pop songs to movie themes and pieces going back to the 1940’s. They have recently been awarded the Cheshire West Community and Voluntary Arts ‘Music’ award for 2024.
The band received the Cheshire West Community and Voluntary Arts Music award for 2024.
27 November 2024, 7.30pm
Chester Guitar Circle
The group, formed in the mid-1970s, meet monthly to play, listen to discuss and appreciate classical guitar music. Their aim is to encourage players of all standards to improve and enjoy performing as a soloist or in a variety of ensembles, and promote appreciation of guitar music in the wider community
29 January 2025, 7.30pm
Chester Young Musicians
An evening of outstanding musical performance given by the winners and runners up of the 2024 Young Musician of the Year competition held on 17 November 2024
26th February 2025, 7.30pm
Chester Community Orchestra
Established in 2001 by Musical Director Jan Modelski (as the Jan Modelski Community Orchestra) with the aim of giving as many musicians as possible the opportunity to play - regardless of age, ability or instrument. They now have three orchestras offering players a unique opportunity to progress through from Introductory level to Concert Orchestra - all under one roof.
26 March 2025, 7.30pm
Event TBA