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Concerts & Events

Sing Joyfully: Spem in Alium

Saturday 3rd July 2010

In this year’s enormously successful and enjoyable ‘Come and Sing’ event, we took on Thomas Tallis’s magnificent 40-part Spem in Alium and emerged victorious! Click here for some photographs of the day.

O Clap Your Hands

The William Byrd Singers’ 40th Anniversary Concert

Saturday 13th November 2010, 7.30 pm
Christ Church, West Didsbury

The William Byrd Singers
Stephen Hargreaves organ
Keith Orrell conductor

Byrd Laudibus in Sanctis, Siderum Rector, Laudate Dominum
Pärt Summa
Rutter Psalm 150
Vaughan Williams O Clap Your Hands, Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge
Barber Agnus Dei
Howells Requiem

Tickets £9.00 (£8.00 concessions, £4.00 students) at the door or from choir members.

Christmas with the Byrds

Sunday 18th December 2010, 7.30 pm
St Anns’s Church, St Ann’s Square, Manchester

The William Byrd Singers
Jim Bulger, Alex Thomas trumpets
Keith Orrell conductor

Christmas music for choir, trumpet and organ by Tavener, Byrd, Howells, Warlock, Mathias, Lauridsen, Chilcott, Vaughan Williams and Scheidt

Tickets £9.00 (£8.00 concessions, £4.00 students) at the door or from choir members.

La Serenissima

Sunday 27th February 2011, 7.30 pm
Royal Northern College of Music

The William Byrd Singers
English Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble
Keith Orrell conductor

Programme includes:

Gabrieli In Ecclesiis
Monteverdi Gloria, Beatus Vir
Cori spezzati music for choir and brass

Tickets £15.00 (£14.00 concessions, £5.00 students) from the RNCM box office or from choir members.

Serenade to Music

Saturday 14th May 2011, 7.30 pm
Christ Church Didsbury

The William Byrd Singers
Jonathan Martindale violin
Ben Powell piano
Keith Orrell conductor

Tippett Dance, Clarion Air
Schumann Vier Gesänge, Op 59
Brahms Zigeunerlieder
Britten Five Flower Songs
Vaughan Williams English Folk Songs, Serenade to Music

Tickets £9.00 (£8.00 concessions, £4.00 students) at the door or from choir members.

Sing Joyfully

Saturday 2nd July 2011
Sale United Reformed Church, Montague Road, Sale, Manchester

Following the successful events held in the past eleven years, this season’s workshop will provide keen singers with another opportunity to sing the music of William Byrd and other composers, under the musical direction of Keith Orrell. We’ll have more details in the spring of 2011.