Choral Eucharist
2025-09-07 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-09-07 12:30 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | St Peter’s Church Dorchester, 26 High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1XA
You are warmly invited to our cathedral-style service of Choral Eucharist on Sunday 7th September at 10.30am in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes: Tavener’s ‘Mother of God here I stand’, Haydn’s ‘Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo’ (Little Organ Mass) and Mozart’s ‘Sancta Maria Mater Dei’. All are very welcome to this free service and for refreshments afterwards.

Free Lunchtime Concert
2025-09-20 12:30 - 13:00 | St Peter’s Church Dorchester, 26 High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1XA
Join us at St Peter’s Church on Dorchester Saturday 20th September between 12.30pm and 1pm for our free lunchtime concert. This is a thirty-minute programme of music given by jazz pianist, Sam B Hanson. Alongside his programme of jazz classics, Sam will be taking requests for improvisations from the audience! Admission is free and all are very welcome.

Concerts in the West - Mitsu Trio
2025-09-26 11:30 - 12:30 | Bridport Arts Centre, South Street, Bridport, DT6 3NR
Concerts in the West presents rising stars Mitsu Trio in an exciting tour featuring Classical and Romantic repertoire.

Concerts in the West - Mitsu Trio
2025-09-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Ilminster Arts Centre, East Street, Ilminster, TA19 0AN

Concerts in the West - Mitsu Trio
2025-09-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Ilminster Arts Centre, East Street, Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 0AN, United Kingdom

Choral Evensong
2025-09-27 16:30 - 17:30 | St Peter’s Church Dorchester, 26 High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1XA
You are warmly invited to our monthly, cathedral-style service of Choral Evensong on Saturday 27th September at 4.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes Grieg’s ‘Ave maris stella’, the ‘Preces & Responses’ by Bernard Rose, Dyson’s ‘Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D’ and Balfour Gardiner’s ‘Te lucis ante terminum’. Admission is free and there is a glass of wine to follow. All are very welcome.

Choral Eucharist
2025-10-05 10:30 - 12:00 | St Peter’s Church Dorchester, 26 High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1XA
You are warmly invited to our cathedral-style service of Choral Eucharist on Sunday 5th October at 10.30am in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes: Bairstow’s ‘I sat down under his shadow’, Mozart’s ‘Missa brevis in Bb K275’ and Ole Gjeilo’s ‘Ubi caritas’. All are very welcome to this free service and for refreshments afterwards. More information at www.musicatstpetersdorchester.org

Faure Requiem for All Souls
2025-11-01 17:00 - 18:00 | St Peter’s Church Dorchester, 26 High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1XA
Join us at St Peter’s Church Dorchester on Saturday 1st November at 5pm for our annual Requiem for All Souls. Fauré’s ethereal ‘Requiem’ is complemented by two of William Harris’s great anthems, ‘Bring us O Lord God’ and ‘Faire is the Heaven’, to offer a suitably reflective mood in which to remember friends and loved ones who have gone before us. The performance, which lasts around an hour, is offered as an act of worship so admission is free and all are very welcome. More information at www.musicatstpetersdorchester.org

Choral Eucharist - Will Todd's Mass in Blue with jazz ensemble
2025-11-02 10:30 - 12:00 | St Peter’s Church Dorchester, 26 High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1XA
You are warmly invited to our service of Choral Eucharist on Sunday 2nd November at 10.30am in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The setting is Will Todd’s ‘Mass in Blue’, which will be accompanied by jazz ensemble! Other music in the service includes Bruckner’s ‘Ave Maria’ and Will Todd’s ‘Stay with me Lord’. This service is free to attend and all are very welcome. Refreshments available afterwards. More information at www.musicatstpetersdorchester.org

Beyond the Sea - A Words and Music Concert
2025-11-07 18:30 - 19:30 | St Peter’s Church Bournemouth
A sequence of words and music exploring the distances, adventure, depths and mysteries of the sea presented by University Music Chamber Choir and musicians. The programme includes choral, vocal and instrumental music by Esenvalds, Sullivan, Faure, Beethoven, Massenet, Parry and others. Admission free.

Choral Matins for Remembrance
2025-11-08 11:00 - 12:00 | St Peter’s Church Dorchester, 26 High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1XA
Choral Matins for Remembrance takes place at St Peter’s Church Dorchester on Saturday 8th November at 11am.The music includes Holst’s ‘Turn back O man’, Stanford’s ‘Te deum and Jubilate in C’, the Seal ‘Responses’, Ireland’s ‘Greater love hath no man’ and ‘For the fallen’ by the contemporary Northern Irish composer Alex Patterson. The service is free to attend and all are very welcome. More information at www.musicatstpetersdorchester.org

Free Lunchtime Concert
2025-11-08 12:30 - 13:00 | St Peter’s Church Dorchester, 26 High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1XA
Join us at St Peter’s Church Dorchester on Saturday 8th November between 12.30pm and 1pm for our free lunchtime concert. This is a thirty-minute recital of music for saxophone and piano given by Maddie McCoubrie and Rob Taylor. Admission is free and all are very welcome. More information at www.musicatstpetersdorchester.org

After Sunset Fadeth - Early Music by Candlelight
2025-11-14 19:00 - 20:30 | St Peter’s Church Dorchester, 26 High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1XA
On Friday 14th November at 7pm Music at St Peter’s presents ‘After Sunset Fadeth’ – a programme of early music for lute and baroque guitar performed by renowned lutenist Matthew Nisbet (https://www.matthewnisbetlute.com). In the evocative, candlelit setting of St Peter’s Church. Matthew will introduce these incredible period instruments as well as the music written for them. This promises to be a fascinating and magical concert. Tickets are £10 and available to buy online at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/st-peters-church-dorchester

An evening with University Music Concert Band
2025-11-21 19:00 - 20:00 | St Peter’s Church Bournemouth
An evening with University Music Concert Band. Enjoy an eclectic programme of music from stage, screen and concert hall. Admission free.

Choral Evensong
2025-11-22 16:30 - 17:30 | St Peter’s Church Dorchester, 26 High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1XA
You are warmly invited to our monthly, cathedral-style service of Choral Evensong on Saturday 22nd November at 4.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes Reger’s ‘Nachtlied’, the ‘Preces & Responses’ by David Bruce Payne, Howells’s ‘Collegium Regale’ and ‘Welcome sweet and sacred feast’ by Gerald Finzi. Admission is free and there is a glass of wine to follow. All are very welcome. More information at www.musicatstpetersdorchester.org

UNDER WINTER STARS – Choral Advent Concert
2025-11-22 19:30 - 22:00 | St James Church, St James Street, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 8HG
A Choral Celebration of Light, Hope, and Wonder
Join us for an evening of beautiful seasonal choral music
and audience carols, including music by Bob Chilcott
and Philip Stopford with a special item featuring the
World Premiere of “Stars” by Stephen Deutsch
Tickets £12 at the door, or £10 in advance from Novia Stationery (High St Gillingham). Cash Only
Tickets may also be booked from Carole Brooks on 07572 786416
Glass of wine/soft drink included

Advent Carol Service
2025-11-29 16:30 - 18:00 | St Peter’s Church Dorchester, 26 High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1XA
We are delighted that, once again, University Music Chamber Choir (formed from singers from Bournemouth University and Arts University Bournemouth) will be providing the music for our Advent Carol Service on Saturday 29th November at 4.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. Moving from darkness to light, the service will include choral music by Anna Lapwood, Anton Bruckner, Sally Beamish and John Tavener (amongst many others) and traditional Advent hymns for all to sing. Do come and support these fantastic young singers at this free event.

Choral Eucharist
2025-11-30 10:30 - 12:00 | St Peter’s Church Dorchester, 26 High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1XA
You are warmly invited to our cathedral-style service of Choral Eucharist on Sunday 30th November at 10.30am in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. The music includes: James MacMillan’s ‘O radiant dawn’, Grayston Ives’s ‘Missa brevis’ and Karenza Briggs’s ‘A tender shoot’. All are very welcome to this free service and for refreshments afterwards. More information at www.musicatstpetersdorchester.org
