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.
Coming up
Our Autumn concert will showcase two Requiems, the beautifully serene Requiem by Gabriel Fauré, set to contrast with Matthew Coleridge’s contemporary take on remembrance. Please join us at St Peter’s Church on Kensington Park Road, on Saturday 28th November at 7pm for this unique double concert.
Past Concerts
The Aubrey Singers have now held a total of 14 concerts and one Come and Sing event since our first concert in June 2022. To date, these have included Chritopher Tin’s The Lost Birds, Verdi’s Requiem, Handel’s Dixit Dominus, 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.
June 2026 : The Lost Birds
Christopher Tin’s luminous and contemplative The Lost Birds with music by Jonathan Dove and Alex Berko. In sharp contrast to the drama and grandeur of our resounding Verdi Requiem at Cadogan Hall, The Lost Birds offered stillness and wonder at the fragile beauty of the natural world.
April 2026 : Verdi Requiem and Jamie Powe’s Gun Mass at Cadogan Hall
We were delighted to join forces with The Fourth Choir, New London Singers and Putney Choral Society to perform one of the most powerful works of the choral repertoire, Verdi’s Requiem at London’s Cadogan Hall. More than 160 singers and the British Sinfonietta came together under the baton of Jamie Powe for a sold out performance to remember. The soloists were Rachel Nichols (soprano), Jess Dandy (Mezzo), Robert Lewis (Tenor) and Blaise Malaba (Bass). The concert featured Jamie Powe’s Gun Mass, a Missa Brevis for double choir which brings to musical life Haley Hodges’ evocative liturgical and artistic response of mourning to recent mass shootings.
We had a fabulous night and the icing on the cake was to receive a phenomenal 4.5* review from musicomh.com.
Autumn 2025: Handel DIXIT DOMINUS & Vivialdi GLORIA
Our sold out Autumn 2025 concert was held at St Peter’s Church in Notting Hill where we sang Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Vivaldi Magnificat.
Summer 2025: Come & Sing The Mozart Requiem
Our Summer 2025 event was a well attended Come and Sing workshop, with singers from around London joining us and 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
In July 2023 we performed Dido and Aneneas by Henry Purcell with Dido being sung beautifully and with tearful drama by Becca Leggett.
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.
