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?
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.”
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.
This was a fantastic sell out concert. The soloists, all from the Royal Academy of Music, were breathtaking. They they had such beautiful voices and were so enthusiastic that you could mot fail to be moved by their singing. The small orchestra which included a very large harpsichord played superbly and though we say it ourselves – the choir sang very very well. We sang with conviction and pure enjoyment and the audience had a wonderful night of top class music.
And when the Allelujah Chorus came, the audience stood and the choir took aim and lifted the roof off St Peter’s. It was something to behold and hear. We finished the evening with the beautifully gentle aria, Worthy is the Lamb. Glorious is not the word for this work and for the evening.
Our next concert is at 2:30 pm on Sunday December 17th in St Gregory’s, Sudbury. We will be singing a very fine selection of traditional Christmas Carols, a sung Peace Poem specially composed by our music director John Chillingworth and we will be joined by the children of Stoke by Nayland Primary School Choir. Festive drinks and nibbles finish off the afternoon.
Its a lovely way to start your Christmas celebrations.
Tickets are £12 (£2 for students and children) from Sudbury Tourist Office in the Town Hall, Juniper Flowers in North Street and Ticketsource – please scan the qr code on the poster.
So – please put the date in your diary and we look forward to seeing you in December.
If you are looking for the Come and Sing on August 17th 2024 then please click here.
We are having an open rehearsal on Monday 8th January at 7:30 when we will be singing Handel’s Messiah.
If you are interested in singing and maybe thinking of joining a choir please do come and try it out.
Handel’s Messiah is a GREAT work to get your teeth and your vocal chords into and we are a lovely friendly choir to sing with.
So do come to our open rehearsal at Friars Hall, Hive Community Hub (aka the church hall attached to the old URC church) in School Street, Sudbury CO10 2HA.
Our Come and Sing rehearsals are specially set up to make sure new people coming get an extra special welcome – we make sure you have a “buddy” so if you have any questions there is someone next to you to ask. We also have a break half way through for refreshments and to have a good ole natter and chat plus any important announcements for the choir. The rehearsals are at the Hive Community Hub in School Street, Sudbury CO10 2HA. Which in old money is the church hall attached to the old United Reform Church at the top of School Street.
Can’t read music – not everyone in the choir can read music, its easier if you can but its not an absolute requirement. If you want to be able to read music, even if its just to know when to start singing and when to stop we are happy to help you with this.
The Messiah – our next concert – we will be singing this fantastic work in our next concert on Sunday April 14. We will have some great young soloists from the London music schools coming up to sing with us (its worth joining the choir just to sing with them) and we will have a fantastically good orchestra courtesy of our conductor. What is not to like?
Singing is really good for you – you owe it to yourself to come and sing. It makes you feel better, it helps your lungs function better, it helps anxiety, improves memory, builds a sense of community, it lets you express yourself, it can help pain relief, it boosts confidence. Don’t believe us, check it out here.
Any questions or queries? Just contact us on info@sudburychoralsociety.co.uk or call 07931 807793)
Seen and Heard International is a live review site for concerts, operas, theatres and other performances. They review concerts at the Wigmore Hall and the Barbican, concerts with performers such as the Hallé Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. And they have reviewed our Mozart Requiem concert in St Gregory’s Church. So click here and see what other people thought of our concert.
Our Christmas concert was on Sunday 11 December at 3 pm in the Joy Abbot Hall, School Street, Sudbury (the old URC). Featuring fun readings, carols old and new and mince pies plus you will all be invited to join in the singing. Its FUN its CHRISTMAS – they came, they sang, they enjoyed. And then all ate mince pies and drank mulled wine.
Tickets are £12 for adults and £2 for children and students and are available from Sudbury Tourist Office in the Town Hall, Juniper Flowers and online at TicketSource. They can also be bought on the door.
Our autumn 2022 concert was on Sunday 20th November at 7:30 when we performed Ola Gjeilo Sunrise Mass and Karl Jenkins The Armed Man at St Gregory’s Church in Sudbury. This was the first time we had performed there and its not the easiest of spaces for a moderate sized choir plus small orchestra to fit into. But we certainly enjoyed it as did the nearly capacity audience.
We last performed the Sunrise Mass in 2016 and everyone was blown away by it. It is stunningly beautiful and we really enjoyed singing it. Karl Jenkins, a Welsh composer attached to a very fine moustache, is one of the most performed living composers. And we are happy to add to this number.
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