Our next concert includes all (well quite a few) of your favourite opera choruses plus a few choral favourites as well. We are talking Handel’s Zadok the Priest, Faure’s Pie Jesu, Brahms’ Wie Lieblich, Verdi’s Hebrew Slaves, Mozart Lacrimosa and some pure orchestral masterpieces including Mascagni’s Intermezzo and more. It will be awesome.
Tickets will be availabe from February onwards from our usual outlets and online from Tickesource.
Come and enjoy an evening’s singing with Sudbury Choral. On Monday 12th January in Friars Hall in School Street Sudbury next to the old URC church from 7 pm.
Everyone is welcome to this event – and if you like it you are very welcome to join our happy friendly group.
Our Christmas concert for 2025 was at 3 pm on Saturday December 13th in St Gregory’s Church, Sudbury. We sang a lovely selection of traditional and not so traditional Christmas Carols with the audience being invited to join us on several of them plus readings in between.
Want to hear a snippet of what you missed – well here it is……
Our Christmas concert for 2025 was at 3 pm on Saturday December 13th in St Gregory’s Church, Sudbury. We sang a lovely selection of traditional and not so traditional Christmas Carols with the audience being invited to join us on several of them.
One of the carols we sang was composed by Amy Bryce who is composing our 80th anniversary work and who also came to the concert. We really liked this addition to our carol repertoire and so did our audience.
And in the concert interval we had teas and coffees and mince piese and sausage rolls. Whats more to like?
Sudbury Choral Society went on tour, well sort of, all the way to Holy Trinity Church in Long Melford – the BIG church in the village. Sudbury Arts Centre was not available and St Gregory’s in Sudbury is too small, beautiful though it is.
We sang Rutter’s Requiem and also his Gloria – so a total RutterFest. His Requiem is performed all over the world by many of the world’s best choirs and now its our turn in Long Melford. It is beautiful with rich hamonies and exquisite melodies. And Rutter’s Gloria is equally well performed worldwide, to quote a review…”it’s hard not to get caught up in the overall excitement – Rutter
ideally captures the festive, celebratory nature of these texts while offering plenty of his signature melodies, catchy rhythmic structures, and vibrant orchestration, involving powerfully expressive brass, percussion, and organ in the Gloria and Te Deum.”
John Rutter is one of our foremost modern composers, conductors and all round singing enthusiast. He is stlil active, well very active in fact, both nationally and internationally and really is a National Treasure who we should celebrate. We hope you managed to come to our concert, if not, here is a short clip of us rehearsing in Long Melford Church on the day of the concert.
Come and enjoy an evening’s singing with Sudbury Choral. On Monday 1st September in Friars Hall in School Street Sudbury next to the old URC church from 7.30.
Everyone is welcome to this event – and if you like it you are very welcome to join our happy friendly group.
Our summer 2025 concert was on Sunday 6 July in Sudbury Arts Centre at 3 pm. Special guests at the concert were the choir from Acton Primary School.
Our summer concerts are always a somewhat lighter affair and this time we had a selection of Aesops’ Fables set to music by the ever popular Bob Chilcott, the beautiful Blue Bird song by Stanford, a choral version of Lennon and McCartney’s Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night which shows off their wonderful songwriting talents, and more. Plus some really cute numbers, complete with actions, from the Acton Primary School Choir.
And not forgetting some beautiful folk songs arranged for a four voice choir (basses, tenors, altos and sopranos) sung by Choir For Hire.
We had a wonderful concert on the 6th April, fantastic soloists, we sang very well and the orchestra was top notch. A great and appreciative audience as well so it was a lovely concert.
Our last concert was at 7 pm on Sunday 6th April in Sudbury Arts Centre at St Peter’s. We sang Haydn’s wonderful Nelson Mass and Handel’s Foundling Hospital Anthem with some great soloists and a professional orchestra.
Haydn’s Nelson Mass followed shortly after his masterly Creation oratorio. It is now one of his most popular choral works and deservedly so.
Handel’s Foundling Hospital Anthem was written to raise funds for this hospital of which Handel was a founder. It might not be his most original work but it is vintage Handel ending with the Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah.
Tickets are £18 each (£5 for children and full time students) from Sudbury Tourist Office in the Town Hall, Juniper Flowers in North Street and online from Ticketsource.
What our audience said…..
“I really, really did enjoy that concert yesterday evening! All you singers were doing your stuff so professionally, making a lovely sound.
That Haydn mass one of my favourites and I love its alternative title, ‘In Angustiis’ does sound so very desperate!
The Music Director was very engaging and I loved that his wife was the double bass player and their son doing all the concert organ and harpsichord, switching deftly between the two instruments, sometimes with just one bar between the lines.
And how marvellous those young soloists! Each one had a beautiful sound and engaged with the audience very elegantly.”
Sudbury Choral Society will be 80 years young in 2027 – a stunning achievement for a small town like Sudbury and equally stunning for a local community choir. To celebrate this we have commissioned a new work from Amy Bryce, one of the UK’s most talended composers whose works are performed in the UK and throughout Europe. We are very excited about this – but you have to wait until April 2027 to hear this work.
In the run-up to Christmas the choir sings carols around Sudbury, this year we sang at the CHristmas Tree Festival, the Waterplace Cafe in Gainsborough’s House and in the Library. Choir members that are available for these mini-concerts come armed with their book of carols and somehow we rustle up an electronic piano. These are always jolly occassions and spread lovely warm feelings into the community. Below are some of the comments we got from people…….
Saturday morning, November 23rd, was horribly wet and windy in Sudbury. It was also the day Sudbury Choral Society joined Friends of Sudbury Library and library staff for Community Carols at the library. In spite of the elements, the morning was a great success. There were around 25 people in the audience. The choir and the audience filled the library with their voices, singing traditional as well as popular carols. A real moment of conviviality and community feeling whilst the wind was roaring across Market Hill. Gladis
Our Christmas concert this year was at 3 pm Sunday December 15th in Sudbury Arts Centre. We sang a very fine selection of traditional Christmas Carols and we were joined by the Christmas Choir from Great Waldingfield Primary School. Cuteness overload or what.
Who else was there? Well in addition to our two accompaniests, Jill Garrett and Christopher Moore and our conductor we hope you were there too. This is a concert where we want you to join in and sing your heart out. Singing Christmas carols is THE way to get into the Christmas spirit and plenty of you did come along and joined in.
The concert was free although everyone was encouraged to make a donation which will be shared between the Choral Society and the Bridge Project who run Sudbury Arts Centre.
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