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  • Coffee Concert

    St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

    Music at St Peter's Dorchester present the first in their series of summer Coffee Concerts on Sunday 15 May at 11.45am. Join us for coffee and a short recital of song performed by one of our choral scholars, Amy Bolster. In September Amy leaves us to read music at Selwyn College, Cambridge where she has […]

    Free
  • Music Making Workshop

    Dorset Carers Hub 48 South Street, Dorchester

    Do you help to look after someone? Join Carer Support Dorset this Carers Week for free events to celebrate Dorset's unpaid carers. This workshop introduces you to different instruments and by collaborating with the other class members, you will be making music and rhythm together. This is led by David Squirrell, a fine Dorset based […]

    Free
  • A Concert of Traditional Music

    St Mary's Church, Sturminster Newton Church Lane, Sturminster Newton

    The Sturminster Newton Chamber Choir will be entertaining us with unaccompanied music for voices linked to Barnes, Hardy, and the local area. This includes four new settings of poems by Thomas Hardy composed by local musician David Lyon, especially for this event. The Mill Singers will be singing a collection of choral music. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-concert-of-traditional-music-tickets-317741382027

    £7.50
  • Coffee Concert

    St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

    Join us for coffee, cake and a short recital of organ music performed by our assistant organist, William Bishop. William has just completed his A-levels and leaves us in September to take up an organ scholarship at Tewkesbury Abbey. His programme includes music by Stanley, Rheinberger and J.S. Bach. Admission is free and all are […]

    Free
  • Queen’s Jubilee Concert

    An celebratory concert by the Bridport Chamber Orchestra, including the Concerto for French Horn No. 1 by Richard Strauss with soloist Laura Morris, Beethoven's Egmont Overture and The Drumroll Symphony No. 103 by Haydn. The concert will be followed by tea and cake - a perfect way to spend a June afternoon!

    £10
  • Carmen by Regents Opera

    The Mowlem Shore Road, Swanage

    Regents Opera is a leading fringe Opera Company specialising in the larger works of the 19th & 20th centuries. The now touring company offers emerging and established singers a platform to perform major repertoire not often staged outside the major houses. Directed by Paul Higgins of Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Royal Opera House, this […]

    £8 – £18
  • Battle of the Organs – Featuring Sherbornes School’s Chamber Choir

    Sherbone School Abbey Rd,, Sherborne

    Battle of the Organs - Featuring Sherbornes School's Chamber Choir Sherborne School Chapel Tuesday 28th June 7.30pm Sherborne school's pupils and staff organists go head to head in a 'Battle of the Organs", including music by Kark- Elert, Guilmant, Stanford, Mushel, JS Bach, and widor, and choral favourites by Tallis, and Parry Tickets FREE | […]

    Free
  • Coffee Concert

    St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

    You are warmly invited to the final coffee concert in our summer series. On Sunday 17th July at 11.45am in St Peter's Church, Dorchester you can enjoy coffee, cake and a short vocal recital given by soprano choral scholar, Flora Davies. Flora began her musical career as head chorister at Salisbury Cathedral and is currently […]

    Free
  • SOMERSET CHAMBER CHOIR CONCERT

    Wells Cathedral Cathedral Green, Wells

    • Amadeus Mozart – Great Mass in C minor, K427 • Ola Gjeilo – The Spheres • Ola Gjeilo – Identity • Ola Gjeilo – The Ground (from Sunrise Mass) • Joseph Haydn – The Representation of Chaos (from the Creation) • Felix Mendelssohn – Psalm 95, Op.46

  • The Gentlemen of St John’s In Concert

    St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

    On Saturday 17 September at 6.30pm in St Peter's Church Dorchester (DT1 1XA), a septet from the internationally-renowned vocal ensemble The Gentlemen of St John's will present a concert. The varied programme will include music drawn from their repertoire, which spans some 600 years! Enjoy around 70 minutes of world-class choral singing, then meet the […]

    £12
  • Choral Evensong

    St Peter's Church Dorchester 26 High East Street, Dorchester

    You are warmly invited to our monthly cathedral-style service of Choral Evensong on Saturday 24 September at 4.30pm in St Peter’s Church, Dorchester. Music includes: Victoria ‘O quam gloriosum’, Noble ‘Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in B minor’, Smith ‘Preces & Responses’ and Howells ‘O pray for the peace of Jerusalem’. Chris Dowie is at the […]

    Free
  • Share the Magic featuring Apollo5

    Layard Theatre Canford School, Canford Magna, Wimborne

    Join Rising Voices Wessex and Apollo5 for an evening of fun vocal music celebrating the joys of singing. The international award-winning British vocal ensemble Apollo5 delights audiences with versatile and engaging performances on the concert platform, singing repertoire ranging from renaissance, classical and contemporary choral music to folk, jazz and pop. Rising Voices Wessex community […]

    £20