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If you’d like to read a review of the concerts and look at some photos of the choir in action, please go to the Members Page.
Directors & Concerts
Below you will find 4 buttons with links to the concerts of our present musical director, Peter Brown and all of the concerts we have on record for the 3 previous directors.
On this main page only the most recent concerts which the choir has given in the past couple of years will be shown to give you a flavour of our repertoire.
December 15th, 2024
A special concert to finish the year with the wonderful acoustics of St Paul’s. So many people said how good it was to hear new carols as well as being able to join in old favourites.
Linden’s solos were stunning, as were her subtle accompanying. Thank you to our gifted organist, Linden Innes-Hopkins and to our very accomplished musical director Peter Brown.
Happy Christmas and New Year to you all and hopefully see you in January!
November 9th, 2024
We opened our remembrance celebration with Peter Brown’s ‘In Flanders Fields’ and continued with motets by Duruflé and Stanford. The final work, Poulenc’s ‘Gloria’, is full of contrasts and was stunningly exciting. The music and singing were very well appreciated; some in the audience felt that it was the best concert they had been to by ADCS.
Thank you to our soprano soloist Veronica Gilbert whose excellent performance showed poise and confidence and to Linden Innes-Hopkins for her wonderful organ playing throughout and lastly thanks to our very gifted musical director Peter Brown.
June 22nd, 2024
The Summer concert contained works inspired by settings of the ‘Magnificat’. ADCS welcomed our new organist, Linden Innes-Hopkins who gave her first brilliant solo, a majestic piece by Flor Peeters. We have had a wonderful year singing together and this collection had some sublime moments and was a glorious way to spend a warm summer evening.
The audience enjoyed the various smaller choral pieces and Sir John Rutter’s ‘Magnificat’. Technically it was a very good concert with wonderful music. There was a lovely relaxed atmosphere afterwards as everyone enjoyed the wonderful canapés and summer drinks. Thank you to Peter and Linden. Enjoy your summer break!
March 16th, 2024
The Spring concert saw ADCS say goodbye to its marvellous organist, Alan Gidney, with the performance of Cherubini’s ‘Requiem’ which Alan gave on his first collaboration with the choir in November 2010. Peter was very pleased with the controlled hushed singing and dramatic outbursts and the choir really enjoyed singing this lovely piece which for many is a forgotten treasure.
The audience enjoyed the various choral pieces of the second half and the two solo pieces by Karg-Elert brilliantly played by Alan. It was an emotional concert with some sublime music. Thank you to Peter our superb musical director and a final thank you to Alan Gidney. We will miss you so much.
December 17th, 2023
In our 90th Anniversary year it was wonderful to finish 2023 with a Christmas concert in St Paul’s.
Thank you to our soloists Frances Buckingham and Vicky Johnson who sang the opening verses beautifully in ‘Once in Royal David’s City’ and ‘In the bleak mid-winter’.
It was lovely to chat and catch up over mince pies: thank you to everyone who helped prepare and serve the refreshments and to those who took care of the raffle and tickets. Thank you to Alan Gidney for his excellent organ accompaniment and his solo ‘Interlude on Coventry Carol’. Lastly, thank you to our outstanding musical director, Peter Brown.
November 18th 2023
ADCS celebrated its 90th Anniversary with a wonderful evening of music in St Paul’s. It really was a special concert, opening with ‘Zadok the Priest’ and closing with Vivaldi’s joyous ‘Gloria’. The variety of the movements within the ‘Patchwork Mass’ blended beautifully and the choir gave controlled dynamic contrasts and some glorious moments.
Thank you to our soloists: Frances Buckingham, Sue Baines-MacNeill, Veronica Gilbert and Vicky Johnson; Alan Gidney for his expert and delightful organ playing and of course the multi-talented Peter Brown.
The performance of the Messiah was something special. The 4 young soloists were stunning and the chamber orchestra was brilliant. ADCS rose to the challenge, too. Although the choruses were spritely, there was always control and the performance flowed. Diction was very good and we were able to give a blend of dynamic contrasts. Thank you to Alan Gidney whose confident chamber organ playing underpinned it all and to our gifted music director Peter Brown.
December 17th, 2022
The large audience thoroughly enjoyed Britten’s masterpiece ‘A Ceremony of Carols’ and loved the beautiful harp playing by Janet Bennett. Thank you to Vicky for her solo and her lovely duet with Frances.
The second half of the concert was a mixture of carols, some traditional. We performed ‘Christmas Eve’, a world premiere of Peter Brown’s amazing new carol with words by Christina Rosetti. Thank you to our md Peter and our brilliant organist Alan and all who helped prepare and serve the delicious refreshments. Happy Christmas!
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