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May
26
Mon
Bank Holiday Afternoon Concert @ Lauderdale House
May 26 @ 1:30 pm

The Aspidistra Drawing Room Orchestra present a concert with great songs and some of the best tunes of the ‘Palm Court Era’ performed in style by this joyful ensemble consisting of a string quartet, piano, flute and oboe.

May
16
Sat
HCS – Portuguese and other Sacred European music @ St. Michael's Church
May 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Jul
4
Sat
HCS – Puccini : Messa di Gloria; Rossini : Stabat mater
Jul 4 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Sep
27
Sun
I Maestri Orchestra present: Mastering the Masters @ Highgate United Reformed Church
Sep 27 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

I Maestri Orchestra present: Mastering the Masters

 

The orchestra of I Maestri begins its 15th season with an Autumn programme of Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
Conductor and conducting mentor John Landor of LMA Orchestra collaborates for the second time with I Maestri with his students for a Masterclass workshop and evening performance on Sunday 27th September 2015.

I Maestri is a unique organisation that helps talented young conductors explore their skills and learning with an orchestra through a programme of workshops, masterclasses and public performances.

Evening programme:

Beethoven Symphony No. 4, Op. 60

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4, Op. 90 ‘Italian’

Performance begins at 6:30pm

We hope you can join us for a wonderful performance and to experience different conductors in their making.

Tickets: Adult £12 and Concessions £9 (on the door)

Advance tickets: Adult £9 and Concessions £7

(10% booking fee applicable)

 

Visit: http://wegottickets.com/event/332544

 

Box Office opens at 5:45pm

 

Please note that tickets will not be posted out and need to be collected from the Box Office on the day of the performance.

Jun
19
Sun
I Maestri present: A Heroic Journey @ Highgate United Reformed Church
Jun 19 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

The orchestra of I Maestri ends its 15th season with a programme of Mozart and Beethoven; music written before and after the French Revolution.

Conductor and mentor John Landor of LMA Orchestra collaborates for the third time with I Maestri with his students for a Masterclass workshop and evening performance on Sunday 19th June 2016.

We will be joined by soloists; Chiawen Kiew – Flute and Tomos Xerri – Harp who will perform Mozart’s sublime Flute and Harp Concerto.

I Maestri is a unique organisation that helps talented young conductors and soloists explore their skills and learning with an orchestra through a programme of workshops, masterclasses and public performances.

Evening programme:

Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto in C, K. 299/297c

Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E – Flat major, Op. 55 “Eroica”

Performance begins at 7pm

 

Tickets: Adult £12 and Concessions £9 (on the door)

Advance tickets: Adult £9 and Concessions £7

(10% booking fee applicable)

 

Visit: http://wegottickets.com/event/362365

 

Box Office opens at 6:15pm

 

Please note that tickets will not be posted out and need to be collected from the Box Office on the day of the performance.

 

We hope you can join us for a wonderful performance and to experience different conductors in their making.

Sep
25
Sun
I Maestri present: Nature’s Idyll @ Highgate United Reformed Church
Sep 25 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
I Maestri present: Nature's Idyll @ Highgate United Reformed Church | London | England | United Kingdom

The orchestra of I Maestri begins its 16th season with a programme of Brahms, Sarasate and Schumann.  Music that reflects nature’s seasonal change from Summer to Autumn; nature turns from being fruitful and full of vitality to a more calm pace and state of resting. Soon it will be harvest and a time to enjoy nature’s bounty.

A return to nature is the theme for this evenings programme as the music carries a pastoral mood, sounds of the romantic idealisms of rustic beauty, with Gypsy Airs and Idyll’s of a time once before.
We will be joined by returning soloists Leora Cohen – Violin and Thomas Gregory – Cello

I Maestri is a unique organisation that helps talented young conductors and soloists explore their skills and learning with an orchestra through a programme of workshops, masterclasses and public performances.

Conductors: Miguel Esteban and George Hlawiczka
Venue: Highgate United Reformed Church, Pond Square Chapel, South Grove, Highgate, London. N6 6BA
Concert programme:

Brahms Tragic Overture, Op. 81

Sarasate Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25

Schumann Cello Concerto, Op. 129

Brahms Symphony No. 2, Op. 73

Performance begins at 6:30pm

Tickets: Adult £12 and Concessions £9 (on the door)

Advance tickets: Adult £9 and Concessions £7

(10% booking fee applicable)

Box Office opens at 5:45pm

Please note that tickets will not be posted out and need to be collected from the Box Office on the day of the performance.

Nov
12
Sat
Highgate Choral Society sings Brahms German Requiem @ All Hallows Church
Nov 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

The opening concert in our 2016-2017 season has a sombre feel, commemorating the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Starting with The Banks of Green Willow by George Butterworth, who was killed in action on 5th August 1916, aged 31, this work is complemented by Ronald Corp’s The Somme – A Lament. The mood lifts with the choral arrangement of Serenade to Music by Butterworth’s contemporary, Vaughan Williams and the programme closes with Brahms’s glorious German Requiem.

Dec
3
Sat
Family Carols @ St. Michael's Church
Dec 3 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Highgate Choral Society’s carol concert is always an event, with plenty of audience participation! Everyone is welcome, especially young children who enjoy this magical time.

Family Carols at St Michael’s Church @ St. Michael's Church
Dec 3 @ 6:00 pm – 8:15 pm

Highgate Choral Society‘s annual Christmas concert invites the whole community to join us, with the St Michael’s School junior choir and also the New London Children’s Choir and make merry. Carols and music will include some old favourites as well as some you may not know. It’s just the event to begin the run up to Christmas, so join us!

Mar
11
Sat
Highgate Choral Society sings Elgar and Delius @ All Hallows Church
Mar 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm

Highgate Choral Society performs rarely heard works by two of Britain’s finest composers, Elgar‘s The Music Makers and Delius‘s Sea Drift.

Highgate Choral Society sings Elgar and Delius @ All Hallows Church
Mar 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:15 pm

Highgate Choral Society sings seminal works from two of Britain’s greatest composers.

May
6
Sat
Highgate Choral Society sings Kodaly Missa Brevis @ St. Michael's Church
May 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Throughout 2017 the 50th anniversary of the death of Hungarian composer Zoltan Kódaly is being marked. In 1945, while hiding with his wife and many others in the cellar of the Budapest Opera House during the Nazi occupation, he completed his Missa Brevis, which had originally been an organ mass. Its first performance was in the cloakroom of the Opera House, later receiving its official première at the 1948 Three Choirs Festival in Worcester.
By the time of this concert Highgate Choral Society will have been on its tenth tour abroad, to Naples, Sorrento and Pompeii, where they will have performed sacred and secular pieces by Finzi, Mascagni, Puccini, Rossini, Vaughan Williams and Verdi, as well as Campion, Palestrina and Tallis.
The soloist in the Missa Brevis will be young soprano Iúnó Connolly, who will also sing a selection of English and Italian songs accompanied by organist Edward Batting.
May
21
Sun
I Maestri present: Songs of Love @ Highgate United Reformed Church
May 21 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

I Maestri’s May Concert introduce a UK premiere of Riccardo Romano’s, ‘The Passion’ which is based on Bach’s St Matthew Passion.  Nino Rota is a composer of many well-known film scores including The Godfather and we shall present one of his orchestral works which is based on a song about love.  To end our programme, we present Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony with the beautiful Cor Anglais solo in the slow movement.

Concert programme:

Riccardo Romano – The Passion (UK premiere)

Nino Rota – Sinfonia sopra una canzone d’amore

Dvorak Symphony No. 9, Op. 95 ‘From the New World’

I Maestri is an established orchestra under the patronage of the late Sir Neville Marriner which gives a platform to aspiring conductors and soloists wishing to develop their experience and knowledge in an environment of mutual co-operation. The orchestra is made of the best orchestral players to the best amateurs as well as recently graduated students. I Maestri have helped soloists such as Nicola Bennedetti, Yuri Zhislin, Maxim Rysanov, Dóra Kokas and many others, in giving them a platform to explore their potential and develop their early musical careers in a more relaxed setting.

Tickets: Adult £15 and Concessions £12 (on the door)

Advance tickets: Adult £11 and Concessions £9

(10% booking fee applicable)

Box Office opens at 6pm

Please note that tickets will not be posted out and need to be collected from the Box Office on the day of the performance.

Nov
11
Sat
Mozart Mass in C Minor K427 @ All Hallows Church
Nov 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Works written for two very different occasions form the opening concert in Highgate Choral Society’s 2017-2018 season. Following the recovery from illness of his fiancée, Constanze Weber, Mozart promised to write a mass of thanksgiving. Although it was never completed the Mass in C minor was premièred, in its incomplete state, with Constanze as one of the soprano soloists, in Salzburg on 26th October 1783 and harks back to the Baroque world of Handel and Bach.
Originally commissioned by the Polish-born art collector Bronislaw Krystall to write a requiem commemorating his wife’s death, Karol Szymanowski decided to change the contract and instead composed what is considered to be his greatest masterpiece. The inspiration for his Stabat Mater was the tragic death of his niece, Alinka and the subsequent suffering of his pregnant sister, who was soon to lose another child. Completed in 1926, Stabat Mater is of fundamental importance in the history of Polish music after Chopin.
Nov
23
Thu
Highgate Debate: This house believes that gender equality is unachievable @ Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution
Nov 23 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Free and open to all but do phone to book your place. In these lively debates, prominent and informed speakers argue their points of view on issues of current importance. They are ‘seconded’ by pupils from local schools, and audience members also have the opportunity to sway the opinion of those attending.

The motion: This House Believes that Gender Equality is Unachievable

Proposing: Ann Hussey, QC and barrister specialising in family law 

Opposing: Vicky Pryce, economist and former joint head of the UK government economic service

Dec
2
Sat
Family Carols @ St. Michael's Church
Dec 2 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Highgate Choral Society’s annual family carols concert has become an unmissable event, with plenty of variety and audience participation! Early booking is advised as this is always a sell-out.

Dec
15
Sat
Highgate Choral Society Family Carols @ St Michael's Church
Dec 15 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

A festive selection of carols and music to get you in the mood for Christmas.  The award winning Highgate Choral Society Choir will be joined by New London Children’s Choir and New London Performing Arts Centre.

Edward Batting on the organ and Alexander Wells will be accompanying on the piano all conducted by the illustrious Ronald Corp OBE.