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Choir concerts and tours

Apart from singing choral services during term time, the Choir also tour and sing in concerts in the Chapel.

Foundation Concert

17 March 2012, 5.30pm
The Chapel
Tom Poster

Tom Poster

  • Parry: I was glad
  • Brahms: Piano Concerto no 2
  • Elgar: Coronation Ode

Tom Poster, piano

King’s College Choir and former Choir members
Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra (CUCO)
Sir Philip Ledger and Stephen Cleobury, conductors

Brahms’ dramatic and lyrical piano concerto is played by outstanding pianist and Kingsman, Tom Poster, accompanied by the impeccable CUCO. The works by Parry and Elgar celebrate the diamond jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen.

Tickets: £30, £25, £18 (students £5, on the door only), available from the Shop at King’s, King's Parade, Cambridge (tel: 01223 769 340; email: shop [at] kings [dot] cam [dot] ac [dot] uk).

Choir concert, Leipzig

24 March 2012, 3.00pm
St Thomas' Church, Leipzig

For details see the Thomana 2012 website.

Bach: St Matthew Passion

3 April 2012, 6.30pm
The Chapel
The Choir

King's College Choir

  • Bach: St Matthew Passion

James Gilchrist, Evangelist
David Wilson-Johnson, Christ
Richard Lloyd Morgan, Pilate
Sophie Bevan, soprano
James Laing, counter-tenor
Thomas Walker, tenor
Lukas Jakobski bass

King’s College Choir
Choristers of Jesus and St Catharine’s Colleges
Academy of Ancient Music
Stephen Cleobury, conductor

Tickets: SOLD OUT

With generous support from Robin Boyle.

MacMillan: Seven Last Words from the Cross

6 April 2012, 7.30pm
The Chapel
Choristers singing

King's College Choir

“... MacMillan's masterpiece ... the maturity in this composition is astounding: the tonal structure of the seven settings, harmony which can be spare or lush without ever being overwritten, an inexorable sense of the drama in the text, the balance between voice and strings. A few seconds, in difficult times, when meditation was centre stage, when it was possible to regain optimism.”
Guardian (on Seven Last Words)

MacMillan’s tour de force is partnered by Palestrina’s intense depiction of Mary, mother of Jesus, at the foot of the Cross and Tavener’s meditation on “O my people, what have I done to you?” The expressive solo cello and serene strings present unwavering faith against the sound and fury of the timpani.

  • MacMillan: Kiss on Wood
  • Palestrina: Stabat Mater
  • Tavener: Popule Meus
  • MacMillan: Seven Last Words from the Cross

Guy Johnston, cello
King’s College Choir
Britten Sinfonia
Stephen Cleobury, conductor

Tickets: £30, £22, £18, £12 (£5 student standby), available from The Shop at King’s, 13 King’s Parade, Cambridge CB2 1SP (01223 769340; shop [at] kings [dot] cam [dot] ac [dot] uk). Opening hours: Monday – Saturday 9.30am–5.30pm, Sunday 10.00am–4.30pm.

Gala Charity Concert

27 April 2012, 7.30pm
The Chapel

Richard Strauss's oboe concerto, begun in the last days of the war, has a Mozartian lightness and grace and will soar into the Chapel. A warm, romantic programme which ends with Puccini's rarely performed Messa di Gloria.

Strauss, Bruckner, Verdi and Puccini

Nicholas Daniel, oboe
Kings College Choir, CUMS Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Stephen Cleobury, conductor

Tickets: £60, £50, £40, £25 (students £5, on the door only). Booking details to be announced.

For VIP supper tickets contact concerts [at] kings [dot] cam [dot] ac [dot] uk.

In support of Homestart and Concerts at King’s.

Summer Choral Concert

6 July 2012, 7.30pm
The Chapel
  • New work for the Olympic Procession
  • Mozart: Requiem
  • Handel: Dixit Dominus

King’s College Choir
Academy of Ancient Music
Stephen Cleobury, conductor

A new work on the eve of the passage of the Olympic Torch through Cambridge opens this summer concert. Mozart's beautiful requiem, recently recorded by these forces, is partnered by Handel's joyful psalm setting.

Tickets on sale from early April.

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