Past Events
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JUNE 2022
PLATINUM JUBILEE GALA CONCERT
Saturday 4 June | 7.30pm​
The Nave, York Minster
​The Ebor Singers and the Chapter House Choir, Associate Choirs of York Minster, celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee with popular coronation pieces, including Handel’s Zadok the Priest, alongside music associated with the royal family and York Minster, including pieces by Francis Jackson and Philip Moore.
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MARCH 2022
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​HOW DO YOU KEEP THE MUSIC PLAYING?
Saturday 26 March | 7.30pm
Chapter House, York Minster
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A programme that celebrates being together again, while pausing to reflect on the moments that society has endured together these last two years. Performed by candlelight, music included Allegri’s stunning Miserere, alongside sumptuous choral pieces by Whitacre, Esenwalds and Lauridsen, and an arrangement of Michel Legrand’s iconic song How do you keep the music playing? The Ebor Singers were also excited to premiere The Inner Light by Kerensa Briggs, and Philip Moore's O vos omnes, both commissioned during Lockdown and receiving their first live performances.
or by calling York Minster Box Office on 01904 557200.
DECEMBER 2019
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A CEREMONY OF CAROLS
15 December | 7.30pm​
National Centre for Early Music, York
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Few pieces capture the joy and expectation of Christmas quite as well as Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, scored for upper voices and harp. This year we featured Britten's work with Christmas music by American composers. Lauridsen's O magnum mysterium and Whitacre's Lux aurumque are regularly included in the repertoire of English choirs, but the familiarity of these works has overshadowed pieces by more recent composers, including Stephen Paulus, Jake Runestad and Craig Hella Johnson.
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NOVEMBER 2019​
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BACH IN THE DARK
12 November | 7.30pm
Church of St Wilfrid, Duchy Road, Harrogate
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Choral masterpieces for the season of remembrance, including J. S. Bach's motet Jesu meine freude, Tomas Luis de Victoria's Requiem Mass and Allegri's Miserere. An atmospheric candlelit concert performed in architect Temple Moore's stunning church.
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OCTOBER 2019
NORTHERN LIGHTS
12 October | 7.30pm
Chapter House, York Minster
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An exploration of the rich repertoire of Baltic choral music, including two pieces entitled ‘Northern Lights’, by Erik Esenwalds and Ola Gjeilo. Alongside this, a performance of Dusk Songs, a contemporary setting of the ancient service of Compline, composed by Kerry Andrew for The Ebor Singers in 2006.
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SEPTEMBER 2019
DUSK SONGS
20 September | 7.30pm
Hexham Abbey
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A programme of music for Compline, from works by Tudor composers Tallis, White, Blitheman and Parsons, to Dusk Songs, a contemporary setting of the ancient service of Compline, composed by Kerry Andrew for The Ebor Singers in 2006.
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JULY 2019
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MUSIC FOR A SUMMER EVENING
20 July| 7.30pm
Lastingham Church
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Sacred and secular music selected to evoke summer evenings and the summer landscape.
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JUNE 2019
A SUMMER IDYLL
20 June | 7.30pm
St Olave's Church, York
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A summer evening of wonderful English choral classics, including Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor, Tippett: Five Negro Spirituals, Britten: Five Flower Songs, Stanford: The Bluebird and folksongs arranged by Vaughan Williams, Rutter.
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MAY 2019
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EARTHRISE
25 May | 7.30pm
Chapter House, York Minster
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A celebration of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with Alec Roth’s 40-part choral piece Earthrise, performed alongside the musical inspiration for this work, Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium, as well as Sleep by Whitacre and Stars by Ä’riks Ešenvalds.
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