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

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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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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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 for this concert: £30 (Nave); £25 (West Steps); £15 (Side Aisles)
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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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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.

Wednesday 8 January 2025, 7.30pm

St Mary's Creative Space, Chester

 

English songs: Songs of Travel, A Shropshire Lad and more.

George Butterworth

From a Shropshire Lad

 

Songs of the Countryside

 

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Songs of Travel

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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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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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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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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Links to the online booking page will be available shortly

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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Links to the online booking page will be available shortly

23 October 2024
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
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
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
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
Event TBA

 

Singers of all voice parts and all abilities are invited to join Chester Msic Society Choir in a St David's Day celebration.

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