BUY TICKETS FOR THE CONCERT AND PARTY FROM TRYBOOKING Our 2023 summer term will commence on Wednesday 26 April 2023 and, after a half term on 31 May, will finish with our traditional end of term summer concert and party on Saturday 24 June 2023. This term we will be rehearsing and performing Johannes Brahms [...]
For our Spring 2023 programme, we will be performing Rossini's delightful Petite Messe Solonnelle. We will start rehearsals in the Music Lecture Theatre at UCS on 11 January 2023 and we are planning a ten-week term concluding with a concert on 25 March 2023. The ten-week term will have a one-week break for half-term on [...]
For our Autumn 2022 programme, Simon has chosen the ever-popular Vivaldi Gloria and Haydn’s delightful ‘Maria Theresa’ Mass (Theresienmesse). Tickets for our concert, which will be on 10 December 2022 at 7.30 in the Great Hall at University College School, are only available via trybooking, an online ticket service. Tickets are £20 for adults and [...]
If you are thinking about joining us when the new choir year begins in the Autumn, the term will start on 14 September, and we will be singing Vivaldi's wonderful Gloria and Haydn's ‘Maria Theresa’ Mass (Theresienmesse). We expect that our end of term concert will be in late November/early December in the Great Hall [...]
Our summer term will celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee with a programme of music which has been performed at Coronations. We will learn music from the 16th to 20th centuries, including some of Handel's uplifting Coronation Anthems. Tickets are only available online via this link (order online and then pay by BACS once your order [...]
For our Spring 2022 programme, Simon has chosen some amazing music. We are going to be singing two works by Mozart, the Coronation Mass and Solemn Vespers (Vesperae solennes de confessore) both in the Bärenreiter editions. They are both fantastic sings with some wonderful moments, including the great Laudate Dominum in the Solemn Vespers. The [...]
John Bradbury, who founded Hampstead Chorus as the UCS Centenary Choir in 2008, sadly died on 27 November 2021. Our sing-through of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, a piece we sang with John in 2009, was dedicated to his memory. John Bradbury with Simon Walton at our 10 year anniversary concert in 2018 John was born [...]
We are pleased to announce that, after an extensive review of the risks and other issues, Hampstead Chorus intends to resume in-person rehearsals at UCS after half-term on 3 November 2021. Providing there is no adverse change in the development of the virus or in Government regulations/advice, we plan to continue through to the end [...]
We are considering the possibility of in-person rehearsals later in the term, but the Choir Committee proposes to begin our Autumn Term as on-line rehearsals via Zoom. Obviously proceeding depends on a good level of support from our members. Those who have participated over the last year will know that online rehearsals have been a [...]
While the prospect of mass vaccination offers some prospect of a return to rehearsals in person perhaps in the Autumn, we are proposing to continue for the time being to continue with on-line rehearsals on Zoom. Those who have participated over the last year will know that it has been a very positive experience. Many [...]