Rock Festival Choir to perform summer concerts in Alnwick and at the Edinburgh Fringe
Rock Festival Choir are getting ready for concerts in Alnwick and Edinburgh this summer.
The renowned chamber choir will perform at St Paul’s Church in Alnwick on Sunday, June 21 at 3pm.
The repertoire includes choral classics such as Finzi’s ‘Lo the full final sacrifice’, Howell’s ‘Te deum’, and Tippett’s Spirituals from ‘A child of our time’.
The programme also features pieces by contemporary composers Patrick Hawes, Cecilia McDowall and Reena Esmail.
Rock Festival Choir member Rebecca Hoskins will play the clarinet, weaving an instrumental accompaniment into the choral ensemble during Hawes’ composition ‘Quanta qualia’. Alan Gidney will play the organ accompaniment for the works by Finzi and Howells.
The choir is delighted to be joined at the Alnwick concert by two accomplished guest soloists, Stephen Orton (cello) and Sophie Barber (violin). Sophie and Stephen will perform Paul Drayton’s arrangement of Vaughan William’s ‘The lark ascending’ in dialogue with the choir. Sophie will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s Prelude Partita No 3.
Tickets for the Alnwick concert will be available on the door (£12, cash only).
The choir will be performing at the Edinburgh Fringe on Friday, August 14 at 1pm, at St Giles Cathedral.