concerts
We aim to put on three concerts a year in churches in London venues. We pride ourselves on the quality of our concerts, both in performance and programming and in engaging outstanding young artists as our soloists and musicians.
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Past concerts
The Aubrey Singers have now held a total of 8 concerts and one come and sing event since our first concert in June 2022. To date, these have included Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms, Duruflé’s Requiem, Schubert’s Mass in G, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, as well as Songs for Advent from Bach to Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs and Vivaldi’s Gloria. Details of each concert and their programmes are available below. We have featured some remarkable young soloists and instrumentalists at all our concerts.
Summer 2025: Come & Sing The Mozart Requiem
Our Summer 2025 event was an excellent and well attended Come and Sing workshop, where we invited people to and join the choir with our conductor, Jamie Powe, for a fun afternoon of rehearsals, finishing with an early informal evening performance of The Mozart Requiem. The solos, duets and quartets were sung by the young professional singers who support our weekly rehearsals.
Spring 2025 : Ein deutsches Requiem
Our Spring 2025 concert was held on Saturday 12th April 2025, at St Peter’s Church, where we performed Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem. Our musical director, Jamie Powe, conducted the choir, accompanied by soprano Sofia Kirwan-Baez, baritone Tim Nelson, and duet piano Harry Sever and Nick Salwey. The concert was an enormous success. Take a moment to listen to the second movement here :
A copy of the programme can be found here::
Autumn 2024: MisaTango
We performed Martin Palmeri’s world renowned Misa A Buenos Aires, also known as Misa Tango, on Saturday 30th November at St Peter’s Church, Kensington Park Road, London W11. The concert included Spanish and Portuguese early music as well as Carlos Gardel’s much loved Por Una Cabeza. The choir was accompanied by accordionist Ilona Suomalainen, pianist Elspeth Wilkes, strings and mezzo-soprano Georgia Mae Ellis, a rising star of the young opera scene and a graduate of the National Opera Studio.
The Sanctus from Misa Tango
Summer 2024: Vivaldi Gloria
Our Summer concert was held on Sunday 16th June 2024 at St George’s Church, Campden Hill, and featured Vivaldi’s Gloria as well as well loved pieces by Palestrina, Byrd, Mozart, Bruckner, Powell and Todd.
The choir welcomed back Elspeth Wilkes on the piano and soloists Sofia Kirwan-Baez, soprano and Camilla Seale, mezzo, both Young Artists of the National Opera Studio‘s Global Talent Programme for 2023-2024.
Audience comments included :
“sublime singing”
“I am really impressed by the choir’s tip-top sound and musicality”
“at every concert the bar is set higher”
A copy of the programme can be found here :
Spring 2024: Equinox
Our Spring concert 2024, Equinox, was performed on Sunday 17th March 2024. Conducted by Jamie Powe, it featured Kathleen Ferrier award winning baritone Felix Gygli and the Amaia Quartet in a concert that included Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs and works by Lili Boulanger, Cecilia McDowall and Kerry Andrew.
Our soloist and musicians were :
Felix Gygli – Baritone
The Amaia Quartet: Alexandra Lomeiko, violin, Milan Berginc, violin, George White, viola and Raphael Lang, cello
Tom Morgan – Double Bass
Elspeth Wilkes – Piano
You can find a copy of our programme here.
And a recording of us singing the Antiphon from Ralph Vaughan William’s Five Mystical Songs.
Winter 2023: Wolcum Yole !
Our sellout winter 2023 concert consisted of Advent songs from Bach to Britten via Charpentier and Isabella Leonarda. Soloists were:
Erin Alexander – Soprano
Mia Serracino-Inglott – Mezzo-Soprano
James Botcher – Tenor
Tom Butler – Bass
The Delphi Quartet – String Quartet
Serafina Steer – Harp
Benjamin Mills – Organ / Harpsichord
A copy of our programme for the evening can be found here.
Summer 2023: Dido and Aeneas
On 8th July 2023, we sang Purcell’s much loved Dido & Aeneas, as well as choruses from Handel’s Semele. Our soloists were :
Soprano Rebecca Leggett was Dido, mezzo soprano Anna Cavalieri was Belinda and tenor Sam Harris was Aeneas.
Our musicians were The Delphi Quartet, Lindsey Jo Kleiser & Joe Harper-on oboes and Elspeth Wilkes on the harpsichord
Spring 2023: Schubert’s Mass in G
In March 2023, our concert focused on German music featuring Franz Schubert’s Mass No 2 in G Major, and then continued then with an all German programme of songs by Brahms, Schubert and Mendelssohn. Soloists were:
Sofia Kirwan-Baez, soprano
Luke Horner, tenor
Dominic Skingle, baritone
and the choir was accompanied by the Delphi Quartet.
A copy of our program for the evening can be found here:
Winter 2022: Duruflé Requiem
In December 2022, we put together a French programme featuring the Requiem by Maurice Duruflé to a sell-out audience in the beautiful Church of St John the Baptist, Holland Road, London W14. This Requiem is one of the great choral works of the twentieth century, and was accompanied with songs by Ravel and Fauré. We welcomed young professional soprano Mia Serracino-Inglott and cellist Jessica Abrahams who played George Crumb’s virtuosic Sonata.
A copy of our programme for the evening can be found here.
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