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Upcoming Events...

Choral Evensong to mark the 

601st Anniversary of the Battle of Shrewsbury

Sunday 18th July, 6-30pm

Battlefield Church, Nr. Shrewsbury

Music by Byrd, Holmes & Gorecki

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Choral Echoes 

An Evening Concert of music for a Shropshire Summer Evening

St. Alkmund's Choir

Directed by Ian Thomas

Saturday 10th July 7-30pm

St. Alkmund's Church,

Whitchurch Shropshire 

Phone 01948 665413 for further details 

 or Email MrIanThomas@Netscape.Net

Who are We?

St. Alkmund’s Church Choir is based in Whitchurch Shropshire and is made up of two choirs, a Junior Choir between the ages of 7 to 16 of around 30 members and an Adult Choir of around 25 members. The choir not only sings for services in Whitchurch each Sunday before also has an active outreach music programme such as workshops, courses, open rehearsals, alongside fostering links with local schools and organizations. We have just launched a Young Persons Choral Training Experience for the Junior Choir.

Some members of the Adult Choir at the service to mark the

600^th Anniversary of the Battle of Shrewsbury, July 2003

What do we do?

  The choir is one of the few performing groups in the area and performs an important local community arts provider. The choir has recently performed on BBC Radio Shropshire, sung at the 600^th Anniversary of the Battle of Shrewsbury (July 2003), and sung in Chester Cathedral.

2004 will see it taking part in the Whitchurch Arts Festival (March 2004) putting on a concert for an English Summer (July 2004), and singing in an RSCM Choral Festival in October 2004. The choir provides access to RSCM courses, Grace Notes events and the British Association of Choral Directors. The choir has developed close links with local schools and other churches in the area.

Each year the choir takes part in a Choral Festival in Chester (November), it also sings at Christmas time at St. Eata’s Church Atcham, near Shrewsbury and during the Summer (July) sings Choral Evensong (BCP) at Battlefield church on the site of the Battle of Shrewsbury.

The Choir meets on a Wednesday evening from 7-00pm and sing a wide range of music to a high standard. Such as Allegri’s ‘Miserere’, Byrd’s ‘Ave Verum’, Karl Jenkins’s ‘Mass for Peace’, Haydn’s ‘St. Nicholas Mass’, Rachmaniov’s ‘Ave Maria’, Russian Orthodox Chants, Plainchant such as the Lent & Advent Prose and music by Purcell, Gibbons, Elgar, Stanford, Mozart and Ireland.

How to Join…

  Come and have a relaxed hour enjoying some of the finest choral music, making music in an inactive and fun way. We take all applicants; enjoyment of singing is all you need. The choir is informal and sings to a high standard with a varied and stimulating repertoire. Come to any of our rehearsals to join or just to have a look and listen, the rehearsal offers a fantastic opportunity to get to the heart of the choir and to see it in action.

For further details please just contact:

Ian Thomas

9, Highcliffe Ave.

Chester

CH1 5DP

Email: MrIanThomas@Netscape.Net.

Music Lists

Music Lists for this Coming Term can be viewed here or you can contact the church on 01948 665413, there is an answer phone where you can leave your message when the office is closed and we will get back to you. Click below for this term's music list

Choir Rehearsals

Wednesday

Junior Choir 6-15pm to 7-15pm

Adult Choir 7-00pm to 8-30pm

Sunday

Adult Choir 5-45pm to 6-15pm

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Address

St. Alkmund’s Church,

Church Street

Whitchurch

Shropshire

SY13 1LB

Phone: 01948 662342

(answer phone when Parish Office is closed)

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