Past Concerts

 

2010     2009     2008    2007    2006     2005     2004     2003

 

2010

 

Saturday 10th July

 

Singalong 2010 was again at our home church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden

 

This year we learnt and sang the choruses (with some of the Arias) from The Creation by Franz Joseph Haydn

 

A record number of guests joined us for a memorable occasion

 

Saturday 8th May

 

We came together with John’s other two choirs to present two of the most popular works of the 20th century at the Bushell Hall Solihull School.

 

Poulenc’s irrepressible Gloria opened the evening, and this was followed by The Armed Man: A Mass for peace by Karl Jenkins.

 

We were delighted to welcome back two of our favourite singers, Helen Winter and Nick Drew, and to be working with the splendid Sinfonia of Birmingham.

 

We were greatly indebted to the generous support of the

BBC Performing Arts Fund

 

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2009

Saturday 12th December

 

Two “firsts” this year -

 

We presented our regular Christmas music and readings, with carols old and new, (plus mulled wine and mince pies!) for the first time at Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Temple Balsall

 

Thursday 24th December

 

A select group of the Hampton singers (plus a few helpers) sang carols at Nuthurst Grange, Hockley Heath

 

 

Saturday 31st October 2009

 

One again at the Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden

 

With the Arden Sinfonia we presented performances of two Mozart works

 

The Solemn Vespers for a Confessor (K339), and the            Requiem K626

 

 

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Saturday 18th July 2009

 

Mozart Requiem Sing-along

 

More than 70 guests and four soloists joined us to sing Mozart’s Requiem, at our home church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden

 

May 16th 2009

 

For the first time in years we devoted our Spring concert to a performance of shorter choral classics, and appropriately (since most of them were religious) we presented them at our home church, the Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden

 

Our concert “I was Glad” performed to a packed church included a selection of music by

  • Bruckner
  • Mozart
  • Franck
  • Haydn
  • Purcell
  • Mendelssohn
  • Elgar
  • Stanford
  • Parry

 

We were brilliantly supported once again by

  • Helen Winter, Soprano
  • Darren Hogg, Organ

 

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2008

Saturday 13th December, we were able to return to St Laurence Parish Church, Meriden, (with the roof repairs now complete – and a much improved acoustic!).

 

We presented our regular Christmas music and readings, with carols old and new, (plus mulled wine and mince pies!)

 

Tuesday 16th December, we presented an afternoon carol concert at the Copt Heath Golf Club

 

 

Saturday 1st November 2008

 

Our Autumn Concert

 

One again at the Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden

 

With the Arden Sinfonia we presented performances of

Faure Requiem

Faure Cantique de Jean Racine

Faure Pavanne

 

In addition we were delighted to present a second performance of the

 

Peace Triptych by Jerry Wigens

Written for us in 2006

 

The soloists in the Requiem were

Paul Mocroft )Baritone), and Linnéa Markgren (Soprano) who substituted at short notice for Dawn Mullard

 

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Saturday 14th July 2007

 

Sing-along Faure

 

This year we returned to the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Temple Balsall, the location of our first sing-along in 2004.

 

60 guests, two soloists and the Solihull Symphony Orchestra joined us to sing

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Sunday 18th May 2008

 

With the previous evening’s concert still fresh in our memory we presented a shorter version entitled “The good old days” with David Vann in a late afternoon charity concert at the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Temple Balsall

 

 

Saturday 17th May 2008

 

Spring Concert

 

At the Fentham Hall, Hampton in Arden

 

The Hampton Singers Proudly Presented

 

The Fentham Follies!

 

An Evening of entertainment from the Music Halls

 

 

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2007

Saturday 15th December at 7-30pm

 

Close on the heels of our Messiah efforts, we presented our seasonal concert this year at St Swithin’s Parish Church, Barston.

 

In addition to our traditional Christmas carols and readings, we took the opportunity to present again the Christmas music and Hallelujah chorus from Handel’s Messiah

 

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Saturday 1st December 2007

 

Our major concert of the year, and one of our most demanding concerts ever, was a complete uncut performance of Handel’s Messiah, conducted by John Bayley.

 

We were joined by brilliant soloists Naomi Kilby, Gaynor Keeble, Nick Drew and Byron Jackson, and the Arden Sinfonia, including our own Sara Wilander on her harpsichord.

 

 

The Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden was filled to bursting with an appreciative audience.

 

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Saturday 14th July 2007

 

Sing-along Messiah

 

More than 70 guests, two soloists and the Solihull Symphony Orchestra joined us to sing a selection from Handel’s Messiah, at our own historic church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden

 

19th May 2007

 

It is a little known fact that the creators of such Victorian operatic masterpieces as the Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore, WS Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, never actually visited Hampton in Arden.

 

With this oversight in mind, we attempted to re-create the opera that they would most certainly have written had they had the foresight to sojourn for any length of time in our pleasant rural backwater. We titled this opera

 

The Pirates of Hampton

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Ruddigood

 

On the 19th May, we gave it its first and quite possibly last performance.

 

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2006

 

December 2006

 

A somewhat busier than usual pre-Christmas period concluded on the 18th December with our, by now regular, evening of carols and impromptu conducting with the residents of Hampton Manor. A sad occasion this year, because our concert was at the final farewell party before closure.

 

On the 11th December, by contrast, we were invited for the first time, to provide a selection of Carols at the John Lewis store at the Touchwood Centre in Solihull 

 

On 9th December, we presented what has now become our regular Christmas music and readings, with carols old and new, (plus wine and mince pies!) at St Laurence Parish Church, Meriden

 

 

7th October 2006

The final concert of our Jubilee season, at the Parish Church of St Mary and

St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden.

 

We presented two much loved choral classics:

 

Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus, and the Gloria by Vivaldi, alongside a less well-known piece for Soprano and Orchestra, Vivaldi’s Ostro Picta.

 

In addition we were delighted to present a very well received first performance of Peace Triptych by Jerry Wigens.

 

Peace Triptych was written especially for us as part of the “adopt-a-composer” scheme, funded by the PRS foundation for new music and run by the Society for the Promotion of New Music in association with the Making Music association. We were privileged to be one of only three choirs selected for this scheme in 2005/2006.

 

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15th July 2006
Sing-along – our third such event - a day long rehearsal of Vivaldi's 'Gloria' and Mendelssohn's 'Hear My Prayer' followed by an evening performance, at

The Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden.

 

A full church, with representatives from some 30 choral organisations, made this our most successful sing-along event so far!
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22nd April 2006
“From La Scala to Broadway”
- Opera Choruses & Songs from the Shows, with Gaynor Keeble and Jerzy Nagorski, at

Fentham Hall, Hampton-in-Arden

 

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2005

 

December 2005

An evening of carols and impromptu conducting with the residents of Hampton Manor


Christmas music and readings, and carols old and new
, once more at St Laurence Parish Church, Meriden

 

 

22nd October 2005
The anniversary concert at the Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden.

 

Marking our 25th anniversary, the 500th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Tallis and Christopher Tye, the 70th birthday of Arvo Pärt and the 200th anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar!

 

With the Arden symphonia, Cressida van Gordon - Soprano; Lucina Troy - Alto; David Manford - Tenor; Byron Jackson – Bass, We presented Haydn’s Nelson Mass and music by Tallis, Tye and Part.

 

16th July 2005
Sing-along - a day long rehearsal of Haydn’s Nelson Mass followed by an evening performance, at

The Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden

 

12th March 2005
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
with Solihull Symphony Orchestra and members of the Hospital Choir, at
Our Lady of the Wayside Church Shirley

 

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2004

 

December 2004

 

An evening of carols and impromptu conducting with the residents of Hampton Manor


Christmas music and readings, and carols old and new
, again at St Laurence Parish Church, Meriden

 

October 2004
Handel’s Coronation Anthems
(beginning famously with Zadok the Priest), at

The Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden


July 2004

Our first Sing-along - a day long rehearsal of Handel’s Coronation Anthems followed by an evening performance, at St Mary’s Church, Temple Balsall

 

Spring 2004

‘This England’, including pieces by Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten, topped and tailed by a selection of Madrigals and Victorian Ballads in arrangements that brought out their sentimental splendour.

 

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2003

 

December 2003

Christmas music and readings, and carols old and new, at St Laurence Parish Church, Meriden followed by mulled wine and mince pies and cakes - with the proceeds being presented to Rev. Michael Dawkins for the Church Restoration Fund.

 

Our last engagement before the Christmas break has become a Hampton Singers   tradition, joining the residents of Hampton Manor for an evening of carols and impromptu conducting by a number of the residents!

 

October 2003

‘Classical Connections’ - an evening with the Arden Sinfonia and guest soloists in Hampton in Arden Church. The programme included Josef Haydn’s ‘St. Nicholas Mass’ and two symphonies by his younger brother Michael, together   with Mozart’s ‘Te Deum’ (written when he was just 13) and his ever-popular   ‘Ave Verum’.

 

Spring 2003

Concert performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Ruddigore', with members of the choir taking a number of the solo parts alongside guest   soloists.

 

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