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Cathedral will resonate to a double chorus and 15 wind instruments for Exeter Philharmonic Choir’s November concert

No fewer than 15 professional wind players, all recent graduates from London’s world-renowned Royal Academy of Music, will join Exeter Philharmonic Choir on 10th November to perform in Bruckner’s splendid Mass in E minor at Exeter Cathedral.

The work has an interesting scoring - double choir accompanied by flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, horn, and trombone - guaranteed to produce a rich sonority in the superb acoustics of the Cathedral.

The second half of the concert will be a performance of the ever-popular Requiem by John Rutter, featuring critically-acclaimed soprano...

Bruckner Mass in E minor and Rutter Requiem with soprano Amy Carson

Event Date: 
10/11/2018 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

Exeter Philharmonic Choir's 2018-19 season begins at Exeter Cathedral with Bruckner 'Mass in E minor' and Rutter 'Requiem' with soprano Amy Carson. A double choir and 15 wind instruments will produce a rich sound in the Cathedral's superb acoustics. The instrumentalists are all recent graduates from the world-renowned Royal Academy of Music in London, now forging careers as professional musicians.

The second half of concert will be a performance of the ever-popular Requiem by John Rutter, featuring soprano Amy Carson. Amy Carson is a critically acclaimed, versatile singer who...

Bruckner Mass in E minor and Rutter Requiem with soprano Amy Carson

Event Date: 
10/11/2018 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral

Exeter Philharmonic Choir's 2018-19 season begins at Exeter Cathedral with Bruckner 'Mass in E minor' and Rutter 'Requiem' with soprano Amy Carson. A double hoir and 15 wind instruments will produce a rich sound in the Cathedral's superb acoustics. The instrumentalists are all recent graduates from the world-renowned Royal Academy of Music in London, now forging careers as professional musicians.

The second half of concert will be a performance of the ever-popular Requiem by John Rutter, featuring soprano Amy Carson. Amy Carson is a critically acclaimed, versatile singer who...

Exeter Philharmonic Choir concert showcases Buckfast Abbey's new millennium organ

Authored by Sharon Goble
Posted: Tue, 05/08/2018 - 10:30am

The organ installed to celebrate Buckfast Abbey’s millennium will be the centrepiece of a special evening concert by Exeter Philharmonic Choir on Saturday May 19th, the night of the Royal Wedding.

Summer in the Abbey - An evening of French and English music features works by a variety of composers from both sides of the Channel, including Vaughan Williams’ ethereal and haunting Valiant for Truth and Fauré’s ever popular Cantique de Jean Racine.

The Abbey’s newly-installed organ, played by Richard Lea, will be put through its paces with three movements from Jean Langlais’...

Exeter Philharmonic Choir shines the spotlight on five talented young soloists in Lord Mayor’s Concert

Five outstanding young soloists, who have already had considerable success, will be joining Exeter Philharmonic Choir for the Lord Mayor’s Concert, Mozart Requiem, on March 10th.

The Choir is excited to welcome vocalists Natalya Romaniw, Oliver Johnston, Marta Fontanals-Simmons and Tristan Hambleton whose voices are sure to excite individually and together as a quartet. The talented singers will be joining more than one hundred members of Exeter Philharmonic Choir to perform Mozart’s Requiem, one of the most cherished and well-known works in the choral repertoire. The programme...

Choral Workshop: Mozart Requiem

Event Date: 
17/02/2018 - 9:30am
Venue: 
Mint Methodist Church, Exeter

Choral Workshop

You are invited to come along and sing with Howard Ionascu and the Exeter Philharmonic Choir in a choral workshop at the Mint Methodist Church in Exeter.

Mozart’s Requiem is undoubtedly one of the most cherished and well-known works in the choral repertoire.

Cost: £18 Score hire: £2 (Novello edition)

To book: on-line at www.exephil.org.uk or by post using the form on-line Queries to EPC tickets: 01392 278168

A welcome chorus for Exeter Philharmonic Choir’s new Musical Director

Exeter Philharmonic Choir, which has just celebrated its 170th season, is delighted to announce that Howard Ionascu will become its new Director of Music in September, marking a new era in the choir’s long history.

Howard Ionascu has been with the Royal Academy of Music for the last four years, where he is Director of the Junior Academy. He will be making regular trips from London to work with Exeter Philharmonic Choir and brings extensive experience of conducting concerts with full orchestras and large choirs.

Howard says, “Exeter Philharmonic Choir has a rich history and...

Tenebrae: Path of Miracles

Event Date: 
15/09/2017 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Cathedral, 1 The Cloisters, Exeter, EX1 1HS

Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles was the first major work commissioned by the award-winning professional vocal ensemble, Tenebrae, in 2005 and having received high acclaim (“an evocative odyssey” – The Times) returns this year for an extensive UK tour alongside choral favourites such as Stanford's 'The Blue Bird' and works by EElgar and Tavener.

To accompany its revival, Tenebrae has commissioned a unique new choral work by Owain Park, Footsteps, which allows Tenebrae to perform alongside Antiphon and marks Tenebrae’s fifteenth-anniversary season.

Path of Miracles is a work...

Concert: Songs of Love (or the want of it!)

Event Date: 
14/05/2017 - 3:30pm
Venue: 
St. Margaret's Church, Topsham

Sunday 14th May 2017 at 3.30 p.m. in St. Margaret's Church, Topsham.

Exeter Singers, directed by Tony Yates with Dorothy Raven at the piano, perform works from John Dowland (16C) to Bob Chilcott (a composition written in 2015), interspersed with poetry readings.

In aid of FORCE.

Tickets: £6 on the door or £5 in advance from The Topsham Bookshop 877895 or Tony Yates 875276.

Children free.

Refreshments

Handel's Messiah

Event Date: 
10/05/2017 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
St James' Church, Mount Pleasant, Exeter EX4 7AH

Come to our Spring performance of Handel's Messiah for an uplifting evening of choral music.

We are conducted by Laurence Blyth and the orchestra is led by Julie Hill.

We welcome our soloists Julia Featherstone (soprano), Olivia Jane Gomez (mezzo-soprano), Michael Graham (tenor) and Matthew Cann (bass).

Tickets are £12 (or £6 for NUS students) from Exeter Visitor Information & Tickets, Dix's Field, Exeter 01392 665885. Ticket price includes interval refreshments and a programme.

The concert will support a local children's diabetes group Snackpack, part...

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