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EBC has been hosting Singing Days for the last five years and we are delighted to invite singers to join us for another day of fun, musical insights and performance. For 2012 we will work together on Handel’s glorious Coronation Anthems (including Zadok the Priest). A special choir will be formed for the day, involving members of EBC and you our guests. Jeremy Jackman, our music director, will be working intensively with us on the music, and providing historical and performance insights on the Anthems. The day will culminate in all participants giving a work-in-progress performance of the Anthems at 3.45pm - which you may invite friends and family to hear free of charge. Our venue is the ‘Musicians’ Church’ of St. Sepulchre-without-Newgate, in the City of London, which has a splendid acoustic. It is where Sir Henry Wood, progenitor of the Proms, was organist, and where his ashes are interred in a side chapel.
As a singer you can participate in this great day for just £20 (£10 for students). Teas and coffees will be available from 9.30am. There will be a long lunch break (lunch not provided). The day ends at 5pm. To register, please click here.
Over the past 34 years, the English Baroque Choir has become one of London’s leading amateur choirs. The choir performs in major London venues, and tours abroad regularly. Jeremy Jackman has been EBC’s music director since 2000. He is a vastly experienced professional musician who is much in demand as a choral trainer for courses and workshops in the UK and abroad. He sang in just about every international venue worth mentioning during his ten years with the King’s Singers. He is chorus master of OSJ Voices (the Choir of the Orchestra of St. John’s) and music director of Leicester’s Cecilian Singers. He will bring all this experience to our Singing Day. If you have any questions please email singingday@ebc.org.uk We are a friendly group of singers of a wide age range with Baroque music at the heart of a much broader repertoire. We are currently looking for some additional Tenors and Basses to join us. If you are a confident singer with good sight-reading ability we would like to hear from you. Opportunities to sing solos semi-choruses also exist for the most able. We meet Monday evenings 6.45 – 9.30 pm in central London and rehearsals are purposeful and fun and and there is always a contingent following the rehearsal with food and refreshment in a local pub. Click on the ‘Sing with us’ – link on the left for more information or simply contact our Membership Secretary Ley Spicer directly on either membership@ebc.org.uk or on 07981 024509 to arrange an audition. To listen to sample tracks of us singing, click 'Hear Us' in the left hand column. ENGLISH BAROQUE CHOIR Under the baton of Jeremy Jackman our reputation and repertoire continues to grow. The choir’s spiritual home is with Handel, Bach and Purcell but its repertoire ranges wide, encompassing Britten, Elgar, Tippett, Finzi, Poulenc and Rheinberger. Our last season included a tour to Sweden , a very successful Singing Day in London, open to all singers and attracting over 150 participants, a concert of music for Baroque & Brass featuring Purcell's Funeral Sentences, a sell-out concert of Mozart's 'Requiem' at St Martin-in-the-Fields and culminated with an exuberant performance of Bach's 'St John Passion' at St John’s Smith Square, EBC’s annual programme always includes performances in St. John’s Smith Square and other major London venues. However the EBC is committed to getting good choral singing widely heard both in and beyond London, having toured in France, Germany, Holland and Italy. The choir returned to France in June 2008 and have just returned from a tour to Sweden. President Vice-Presidents Leon Lovett Musical Director Accompanist |
Forthcoming Concerts
Friday 10 February 2012 St Martin-in-the-Fields Vivaldi Gloria Saturday 31 March 2012 St John's, Smith Square Coronation Anthems, Mozart, Bach Saturday 26 May 2012 Navarrenx Choir trip to South West France Sunday 27 May 2012 Navarrenx Choir trip to South West France |
For further information please contact info@ebc.org.uk
English Baroque Choir is registered under the Charities Act 1960
Registered Charity No. 800398