Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht
2021-12-18 19:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | St Andrew’s Church, 53 Jarrom Street, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 7DH, United Kingdom
Join us in the magnificent surroundings of St Andrew’s Church, Jarrom Street in Leicester for a concert of German choral music in celebration of Advent and Christmas. The programme will feature elegant choral music by Germanic composers through the ages in celebration of Advent and Christmas, and will include music by Hieronymus Praetorius, Felix Mendelssohn, Max Reger, Max Bruch and carol arrangements of traditional Germanic carols.
Start time: 7:30 pm
Tickets available from https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/leicestershirechorale/t-ogormr
Location- St Andrews Church, Jarrom Street, Leicester LE2 7DH (just 7 minutes walk from Newark Street Car Park)
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A Celebration of Singing
2022-03-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Uppingham School Chapel, Uppingham School, High St W, Uppingham, Leicestershire, LE15 9QE, United Kingdom
At the kind invitation of the Director of Music and in collaboration with the choirs of Uppingham School
At the kind invitation of the Director of Music, Andrew Kennedy, and in collaboration with the choirs of Uppingham School, we will be joining with their 200-strong Concert Choir and a professional orchestra to perform Gabriel Faure’s magnificent Requiem as well as performing in our own slot, sharing movements from Rachmaninov’s great Vespers which we will be performing in full in April.
Tickets £15/£10/£5; discount if purchased with An Evening with Dame Ann Murray on Saturday 19th March 2022.
Tickets are available for purchase through the following sources:

By contacting Uppingham Theatre Box Office via phone on 01572 820820 or through email.
From TicketSource

If you have any queries about booking a ticket then please also use the Box Office number 01572 820820 or email boxoffice@uppingham.co.uk.

Vespers (Op. 37 from All night vigil) Rachmaninov
2022-04-08 20:00 - 21:30 | St Andrews Jarrom Street, Leicester, St Andrews, 52 Jarrom Street, Leicester, Leicester, LE2 7DH, United Kingdom
After twice postponing our original plans to perform this choral tour de force from the great Russian master composer Serge Rachmaninov, we sincerely hope to be able to bring this wonderful music to you this April.
Full of rich, sonorous harmony, searing and soaring melody, rhythmic drive and thrilling climax, the Vespers is one of the all-time classics of the a cappella choral repertoire. Sung in the original church Slavonic language and with additional guest profundo basses to add the required depth of vocal texture, our organist David Cowen will also display his mastery of improvisation as an occasional interlude to our vocal tapestry. Set in the sacred surroundings of St Andrew’s, Jarrom Street, this programme will hopefully captivate and offer appropriate reflection for the season.
The work was composed and premiered in 1915, at a time when the world was in turmoil with more to come shortly after, in terms of the denouement of the first world war and a devastating influenza pandemic. We find ourselves performing this work a little over a hundred years later when the world seems to be on the threshold of yet more war and strife. All art is political to some extent or other, and we have thought long and hard about whether we should perform Russian repertoire. We have decided to go ahead- this performance is a call for peace, dedicated to the Ukrainian people and all those in Russia who are opposed to the invasion of Ukraine.
Tickets now available from:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/leicestershirechorale or tickets@leicestershirechorale.org.uk

Joyous Jubilee Summer Concert and Black Tie Buffet Supper
2022-06-11 17:30 - 21:00 | All Saints Church, Braunstone-in-Rutlnd, 31 Cedar Street, Braunston-in-Rutland, Oakham, LE15 8QS
Dear supporters,
In past years, pre-pandemic, so many of you have been generous benefactors towards our efforts as a choir to keep presenting interesting musical programmes, work with exciting professional ensembles and soloists and offer opportunities to young singers in order to develop the next generation of choral musicians.
After a break of two years, Leicestershire Chorale asks again that you may feel so generously inclined to support all of this work, given that regular concert audiences are decreasing in number and grant applications ever harder to come by. We could ask for this money in the form of a Crowdfunder, or even by way of a general plea for individual donations to a specific project, but instead we invite you a wonderful evening of choral music and solo song on Saturday 11 June to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee followed by a delicious buffet supper of British classic dishes and some tasty wine. Please see your personal invitation at the top of this email for details, and please RSVP as soon as possible to tickets@leicestershirechorale.org.uk. If you respond with a yes, you will be sent further information and a booking form.

Your incredibly kind donation, beyond covering our catering and concert costs, will help us to put on an exciting programme of events next season, including a likely opportunity to:

Come and sing with us in October
Serenade you with songs of love in recognition of St Valentine in February
Perform Francis Poulenc’s striking but devilishly hard Lenten Motets in March
Sing of the evocative colours of the night and associated flowers in July
Perform with world-leading period instrument ensemble the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble on Saturday 10th December at St Andrew’s Church on Jarrom Street!

Here’s a link to a video of us on our Youtube site so you can judge for yourselves if we’re worth sponsoring! https://youtu.be/gNLFfH6Lz40

Glorious Gloriana!
2022-07-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Bishop Street Methodist Church, 10a Bishop Street, Town Hall Square, Leicester, LE1 6AF
In the year of her Platinum Jubilee Celebrations, we offer up our own choral homage to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
The concert will include music written in honour of the Queen during her seventy years on the throne by composers such as Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten, William Walton, William McKie, Ralph Vaughan-Williams, David Sawyer and others, juxtaposed with madrigals written in honour of her predecessor Queen Elizabeth I.
Tickets can be bought by emailing: tickets@leicestershirechorale.org.uk or via our TicketSource link: www.ticketsource.co.uk/leicestershirechorale

Choral Workshop Day of Venetian Music
2022-10-08 10:30 - 19:30 | St Mary de Castro, Castle Street, Leicester, LE1 5WN, United Kingdom
We are delighted to welcome experienced, enthusiastic singers for our Choral Workshop sessions (10.30am-1.00pm, 2.30pm-5.00pm) learning a variety of Venetian inspired ‘cori spezzati’ polychoral works by Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi, Hans Leo Hassler and, in the 350th-anniversary year of his death, Heinrich Schütz; also including music by nun-composers Isabella Leonarda and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani. With a rich continuo accompaniment played on period instruments.
Workshops will be directed by Tom Williams, one of the region’s leading exponents of the choral tradition. A choral scholar at King’s Cambridge, for the last twenty five years or so he has worked as a freelance singer, conductor and singing teacher. He is a core member of the acclaimed EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble, a Choirman at Temple Church and sang with Stephen Layton’s choir Polyphony.
The day will include Tea and Cake with Paul McCreesh – an informal Q&A session with our great Maestro and Patron, founder and Artistic Director of the Gabrieli Consort and Players.
Concert (6.30pm) – an opportunity to perform to guests and supporters.
Participant tickets: Full £25, Chorale Friends £20 NUS £15 School Student £10
Concerts tickets: Full £10 Chorale Friends £8 Under 19s £1
St Mary de Castro Church, Leicester
Please email tickets@leicestershirechorale.org.uk to register for the Workshop and/or request tickets
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German & Venetian Vespers for Christmas
2022-12-10 19:30 - 21:30 | St Andrew’s Church, 53 Jarrom Street, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 7DH, United Kingdom
Wie es war im Anfang, jetzt und immer dar
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be
German/Venetian Vespers for Christmas – part of our celebrations of Schutz 350
A programme of German/Venetian choral music structured around the Catholic Liturgy of a Marian Vespers, including pieces of an Advent and Christmas flavour. This is a large-scale project working with instrumentalists from the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, one of Europe’s leading early music groups and we hope to use the glorious space and splendour of St Andrew’s Church on Jarrom Street to its full effect. To include works by G Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi (from his 1610 Vespers), Hans Leo Hassler, Johann Rosenmüller and Heinrich Schütz, in the 350th Anniversary year of his death in 1672. An immersive and thrilling experience in prospect.
Concerts tickets: Full £15 / Chorale Friends £12 / NUS £5 / Under 19s £1
Tickets available on the door or online from http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/leicestershirechorale or from tickets@leicestershirechorale.org.uk

I gaze upon you
2023-02-11 19:30 - 20:30 | Stoneygate Baptist Church, 315 London Road, Leicester, LE2 3ND
I gaze upon you – an eclectic mix of choral music, solo song, piano and organ solo with spoken word in celebration of love to honour St Valentine
A musical and poetical celebration of all good that binds us together, omnia vincit amor. To include an eclectic mix of music by Gabriel Jackson, Thomas Tallis, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Burns, Tomas Luis de Victoria, JS Bach and in recognition of his 70th Birthday Chorale’s own composer and founding member David Fisher.
Concerts tickets can be bought here

Motets for a time of Penitence
2023-04-01 19:30 - 21:30 | St Mary de Castro, Castle Street, Leicester, LE1 5WN, United Kingdom
Motets for a time of Penitence:
A Lenten sequence of music to include Francis Poulenc’s Quatre motets pours un temps de Pénitence, other settings of the same texts by Orlando di Lasso, Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Tomas Luis de Victoria and Giovanni Croce plus accompanied plainchant and organ improvisation.
Concerts tickets: Full £13 Chorale Friends £10 / U19 £1
Tickets available online from:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/leicestershirechorale or from tickets@leicestershirechorale.org.uk

Summer Fundraiser 2023
2023-06-17 17:30 - 21:00 | Houghton on the Hill Village Hall, Main Street, Houghton on the Hill, Leicestershire, LE79GE, United Kingdom
Saturday June 17th 2023
This is our proposed date for this year’s Summer Fundraiser.
After the success of our new format in 2022, we are really looking forward to having an even better time in a picture-perfect venue!
Full details to follow…watch this space!

The Creation by Joseph Haydn
2023-10-14 19:30 - 22:00 | Stoneygate Baptist Church, 315 London Road, Leicester, LE2 3ND
Following a packed-house event at the same venue back in February, we are delighted to return to Stoneygate Baptist Church with one of the great choral masterpieces in Haydn’s oratorio Creation. We look forward to performing this iconic work in a chamber version for piano four hands accompaniment, arranged by Alexander Zemilinsky and Arnold Schoenberg in the first decade of the 20th Century. The many solo roles will be taken by singers from within the choir, hopefully making this an even more intimate and exciting rendition. Come and enjoy all the colour and vibrant optimism of Haydn’s wonderful score!
Venue: Stoneygate Baptist Church, London Road, Leicester
Concerts tickets: Full £19, Chorale Friends £15, NUS/U19 £10, U13 £5
from tickets@leicestershirechorale.org.uk

Rejoice, rejoice! A Sequence of Elizabethan Carols, Motets and Music for Viols with Fretwork
2023-12-09 19:30 - 21:30 | St Andrews Jarrom Street, Leicester, St Andrews, 52 Jarrom Street, Leicester, Leicester, LE2 7DH, United Kingdom
We are honoured and delighted to be invited to perform with world-leading consort of viols Fretwork, especially in such a key year for them as they commemorate the death of English Tudor composers William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes. Chorale and Fretwork bring to you a programme of carols, choral motets, and music for viols all from the Elizabethan period, including music by Byrd, Weelkes, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tomkins, John Amner and Anthony Holborne. Come and hear this beautiful music performed as originally intended on period instruments and at the original pitch. A must for both early music enthusiasts and those merely curious about England’s great musical history.
Tickets: £19, full price; £15 Friends of Leicestershire Chorale; £10 NUS/U19; £5 U13.
Tickets from tickets@leicestershirechorale.org.uk

The Light Invisible Within - Choral Music and Solo Song for Epiphany and Candlemas
2024-02-03 19:30 - 21:30 | St Mary de Castro, Castle Street, Leicester, LE1 5WN, United Kingdom
A programme of choral music, organ interludes and solo song with a flavour of the Epiphany and Candlemas to help bring in the New Year; with Nick Scott-Burt organ.
Following two successful events last season, we’re very happy to return to the ancient and inspiring spaces within the beautiful, historic church of St Mary de Castro in Leicester City Centre. This time we present a spiritual sequence of choral music, solo song and organ interlude on a general theme of guiding light and touching on both the Epiphany and Candlemas. This concert will include music by Lassus, Eccard, Byrd, Tallis, Mendelssohn, Warlock, Burgon and John Rutter’s atypical and strikingly wonderful Hymn to the Creator of Light.
Tickets: Full £15, Chorale Friends £12, NUS/U19 £10, U13 £5
from tickets@leicestershirechorale.org.uk

The Full, Final Sacrifice; Epic Choral Anthems with Organ
2024-03-23 19:30 - 21:30 | Leicester Cathedral, 2 Peacock Lane, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE1 5FQ, United Kingdom
We are delighted to join forces once again with Leicester Cathedral choir, an organisation with whom we have strong links through several shared singing members, choral scholars and the Director of Music Dr Christopher Ouvry-Johns, himself a key bass within our ranks! This shared programme will explore some gloriously epic pieces from the Anglican repertory, including For Lo! I raise up by CV Stanford, The Twelve by William Walton and Gerald Finzi’s ever popular Lo, the full, final sacrifice. Cathedral organist David Cowen, formerly Chorale’s long-serving accompanist and his successor in the role Nick Scott-Burt will add their own flavour and excitement to proceedings with organ solos and duets.
Tickets: £15 Full price £12 Chorale Friends £10 NUS/U19 £5 U13

Un soir de neige au soleil! Part songs for choral voice with solo melodies and instrumental interludes
2024-06-22 19:30 - 21:30 | Loughborough Amherst Chapel, Gray Street, Loughborough, LE11 2DZ, United Kingdom
This concert is to be held in conjunction with senior music scholars from the Loughborough Schools Foundation, and with Nick Scott-Burt piano.
Having enjoyed the serious, sacred side of Francis Poulenc’s choral writing last April in performing his Quatres motets pour un temps de penitence, we now present an equally vivid and thoughtful secular perspective in the miniature choral cantata Un soir de neige. This was another collaboration with the pioneering surrealist poet Paul Eluard, with whom Poulenc had composed his masterpiece Figure humaine during the dark days of Nazi occupation. These four lesser-known vignettes display all Poulenc’s mastery of choral texture and unique harmony found in more significant works. Alongside we perform a set of six chansons by Paul Hindemith, settings of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and choral songs by Venezuelan-born French composer Reynaldo Hahn. We are delighted to be joined in performance by talented senior musicians from Loughborough Schools Foundation, who will deliver solo instrumental and vocal interludes to our choral programme.
Tickets are: £15 Full price £12 Chorale Friends £10 NUS/U19 £5 U13 from tickets@leicestershirechorale.org.uk

Ecce Sacerdos Magnus - Music for trombones and voices
2024-11-02 19:30 - 21:30 | St Andrew’s Church, 53 Jarrom Street, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 7DH, United Kingdom
A celebration concert in the 200th anniversary year of the birth of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824-2024)
Tom Williams Conductor
Nicholas Scott-Burt Organ
Adrian France Director, CTQ
Join us for a unique performance of music by renowned Austrian composer, Anton Bruckner alongside his contemporaries from the glorious Romantic period. The programme focusses on masterpieces such as Bruckner’s famed Motets for trombones, voices & organ, and his instrumental Aequale for trombones; including rare and recently discovered works (including at least one UK Premiere & first modern day performance) of music for trombones & voices by fellow Austrian and lodger of Bruckner, Wenzel Gottlieb Lambel. A cappella works and organ solos from the period offer further context to this musical feast.
The evening concert will be preceded by a workshop for trombonists of all ages, with a chance to not only hear about the history and development of the trombone, but also a rare opportunity to try out a number of rare original Romantic trombones – used for the Coronation of King Charles III. Furthermore, participants will have a chance to take part in the concert too under expert guidance from The Concert Trombone Quartette and directed by Leicester born bass trombonist, Adrian France.
Tickets:
Workshop participant £15 to include entry to the concert
Concert only Full £18, Chorale Friends £15, under 19 £10, under 13 £5
Tickets for the workshop and concert can be purchased via Ticketsource at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/leicestershirechorale/t-xmoylmj

The Jolly Shepherd - Jazzy Choral Music for Christmas with Organ
2024-12-14 19:30 - 21:00 | St Mary de Castro, Castle Street, Leicester, LE1 5WN, United Kingdom
Jazzy Choral Music for Christmas with Organ including foot-tapping favourites by Iain Farrington, Mack Wilberg, Errollyn Wallen and John Rutter!
Tom Williams Conductor
Nicholas Scott-Burt Organ
A festive feast of new Christmas favourites including John Rutter’s 2019 carol, written for the National Youth Choir of Great Britain The Jolly Shepherd, Iain Farrington’s 2022 commission Nova Nova, for that year’s Advent Carol Service from St John’s College in Cambridge, Mack Wilberg and Peter Steven’s take on Ding dong merrily on high from Christmas Eve at King’s in 2007 and Errollyn Wallen’s peerless Peace on earth, performed at the same carol service in 2022. We will also include music by Welsh composer Tamsin Jones, Richard Lloyd and others, whilst asking you to raise your own voices alongside ours in some congregational numbers. Let’s celebrate the season together with humour and in good number!
Tickets £15, Friends £12, under 19 £10, under 13 £5
Tickets can be purchased via Ticketsource at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/leicestershirechorale/t-lnrxgjl

O'Bonie Doon - Sacred and Secular Music in celebration of Scotland's national bard
2025-02-01 19:30 - 21:00 | Stoneygate Baptist Church, 315 London Road, Leicester, LE2 3ND
Sacred and Secular Choral Music, Solo Song, Spoken Word and Piano/Organ Solo, in celebration of Scotland and their national bard
Tom Williams Conductor
Nicholas Scott-Burt Organ
A variety of vocal music, both sacred and secular, interwoven with spoken word and keyboard solo to bring to life the beauty of the Scottish landscape and cultural history. To include music by 16th composer David Peebles, 20th century choral composer Robin Orr, 21st century performer/composer and author Kerry Andrew and icon of the Scottish music scene Sir James Macmillan. We will also include several arrangements of Scots folk songs by Robert Burns, arranged by Simon Carrington, Stephen Cleobury and Benjamin Britten. An interesting, varied and unusual programme performed close to Burns Night.
Tickets £15, Friends £12, under 19 £10, under 13 £5
Tickets can be purchased via Ticketsource at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/leicester/stoneygate-baptist-church/o-bonie-doon/2025-02-01/19:30/t-modrply

Ah Man, Ah Say! Carols for Passiontide
2025-03-29 19:30 - 21:00 | Church of St Peter and St Paul, Market Place, Uppingham, Leicestershire, LE15 9QH, United Kingdom
Carols for Passiontide including the world premiere of five such works by Welsh composer Gareth Treseder.
Tom Williams Conductor
The Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, Uppingham
Gareth Treseder has been described by Schott music publishers as ‘One of the finest emerging choral composers of our time’. He has been commissioned by a variety of leading professional and amateur choral ensembles, including The Choir of the Temple Church, The Marian Consort, The BBC Singers, Farnham Youth Choir and the Swansea Bach Choir. His music has been performed on BBC Radio 3 and published by Boosey and Hawkes, Stainer and Bell and the RSCM. Hot off the press in 2024 are five carols for Passiontide, settings of medieval and other early texts which have yet to be published or receive their debut performance. It is a very exciting prospect that Gareth has agreed for our choir to be able to deliver this, in Uppingham Parish Church in March 2025! An event not to be missed…
Tickets £15, Friends £12, under 19 £10, under 13 £5
Tickets can be purchased via Ticketsource at Ah Man, Ah Say! at Church of St Peter and St Paul, Uppingham event tickets from TicketSource

The Planets Gustav Holst (Neptune)
2025-05-18 19:30 - 22:00 | De Montfort Hall, Granville Road, Leicester, LE1 7RU, United Kingdom
with the Bardi Symphony Orchestra and Leicestershire Chorale Upper Voices
Chorus Master – Nick Scott-Burt
Full details here: Bardi Symphony Orchestra: The Planets – De Montfort Hall

The Spirit of Truth - In celebration of 20 years of Leicestershire Chorale Choral Scholarships Scheme
2025-07-05 19:30 - 21:00 | St Andrew’s Church, 53 Jarrom Street, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 7DH, United Kingdom
Choral Metamorphoses of existing works by Tallis, Byrd, Bach, Stanford, Vaughan Williams and Wesley, adapted and rearranged by modern composers Judith Bingham, Roderick Williams, Knut Nystedt, Bob Chilcott and William Petter
Tom Williams Conductor
Nick Scott-Burt Piano and Organ
St Andrew’s Jarrom St, Leicester
After a chance conversation in August 2005 with a Leicester University student on an RSCM course in Salisbury, the name of Adam Piplica was suggested as someone who could become the first of now well over a hundred young singers, to benefit from scholarship to sing with Chorale, whilst still at school or university. Many have gone on to university scholarships or to music conservatoire and some have even built successful singing careers beyond that. Others have kept singing as a strong suit and important part of their adult lives, some even coming back to re-join Chorale as members later on. To celebrate this momentous anniversary, we aim to invite back as many former scholars as possible to join together in a ‘Scholars Choir’ who will sing with and independently of our existing Chorale. We will explore a series of choral re-imaginings of classics from the repertoire such as Thomas Tallis’s If ye love me, William Byrd’s Ave verum and JS Bach’s chorale Komm süsser Tod, reworked by Judith Bingham, Roderick Williams and Knut Nystedt respectively. This programme will provide the perfect opportunity both to hear our former scholars singing in their present glory, but also to have them sing amongst us once again.
Tickets £15, Friends £12, under 19 £10, under 13 £5
Tickets can be purchased via Ticketsource at The Spirit of Truth at St Andrews Church event tickets from TicketSource

These are the Cries
2025-11-08 19:30 | St Catherine’s Church, Burbage, LE10 2DE
Music for Voices, Bass Viol and Chamber Organ in the significant Anniversary Years of composers Orlando Gibbons, Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina and Luciano Berio.
7.30pm Sat 8th November St Catherine’s Church, Burbage LE10 2DE
Tom Williams Director
Nick Scott-Burt Chamber Organ
Matthew Farrell Countertenor and Bass Viol
A programme to celebrate the music of three great composers of the past, paired with music from celebrated living composer James Weeks and with period instrumentalists Matthew Farrell and Nick Scott-Burt. 2025 is a major anniversary year for all three composers Palestrina, Gibbons and Berio, who each made a unique and telling contribution to the landscape of classical music history. In this concert, we seek to highlight music from each that might be slightly lesser-known to audiences, including Gibbons Cries of London, three movements of Berio’s vocal sequence of the same name and music from the Canticum Canticorum (Song of Songs) by Palestrina, paired with contemporary settings of similar texts by James Weeks, taken from his work Mala Punica and a more recent reworking of a Gibbons madrigal. Performing alongide the choir will be exciting young countertenor and bass viol player Matthew Farrell, former musical son of Leicester who is now making waves as a member of Westminster Cathedral Choir and with his viol consort Arculo.
Tickets: £15 Full £12 Friends £10 U19 £5 U13. Tickets on the door and at Ticketsource.

Illuminare Jerusalem
2025-12-13 19:30 - 21:00 | St Mary de Castro, Castle Street, Leicester, LE1 5WN, United Kingdom
Choral Music for Advent and Christmas written by women or those writing for upper voices, including music by Judith Weir, Celia McDowall, Becky McGlade and Kerry Andrew
Tom Williams Director
Nick Scott-Burt Organ
A fresh and thrilling take on the Advent and Christmas story from a variety of composers, many writing in the 21st Century, with less recent contributions from Hildegard of Bingen and Italian Baroque composer Chiara Margarita Cozzolani. These carols include two written by former and current Masters of the Queen’s/King’s Music and several performed in high profile BBC broadcasts and recorded on award-winning album releases. Join us for this new and exciting venture.
Sat 13th December at St Mary de Castro, Castle St, Leicester, LE1 5WN
Tickets: £15 Full £12 Friends £10 U19 £5 U13 on the door and from Ticketsource

Midwinter Songs
2026-02-14 19:30 - 21:00 | Stoneygate Baptist Church, 315 London Road, Leicester, LE2 3ND
Choral and Solo Song with Piano from the American 20th Century, including music by Morten Lauridsen, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and Randall Thompson
Tom Williams Director
Nick Scott-Burt Piano
Morten Lauridsen’s five settings of the English poet and historical novelist Robert Graves, provide a striking and varied musical commentary on love and loss. Originally scored for piano and choral voices, Lauridsen later orchestrated the movements. It is his earlier and more intimate version that we use as the basis for our programme of 20th Century American music, performed in the 250th anniversary year of American Independence. In addition to the Midwinter Songs, we will also sing Lauridsen’s iconic setting of O magnum mysterium and music by American greats Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and Randall Thompson. An aptly reflective programme for the concert date in question.
Tickets: £15 Full £12 Friends £10 U19 £5 U13 on the door and from Ticketsource

Lamentations
2026-03-28 19:30 - 21:00 | St Mary de Castro, Castle Street, Leicester, LE1 5WN, United Kingdom
Choral Songs of Lamentation from the Renaissance to the Modern Age including music by Thomas Tallis, Dominique Phinot, Rudolf Mauersberger and Edward Bairstow
Tom Williams Director
Nick Scott-Burt Organ
The Lamentations of Jeremiah have proved a most poignantly fruitful text for composers throughout the history of choral music. In this concert, punctuated by inventive and expressive organ improvisation from Nick Scott-Burt, we present two classic interpretations of this great biblical text by Thomas Tallis and Edward Bairstow, as well as a couple of lesser-known responses from Franco-Flemish composer Dominique Phinot and former conductor of the Dresdener Kreuzchor, Rudolf Mauersberger. The latter’s response to the destruction of his home city in the Second World War, the motet Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst, is one of the most profound settings of the Lamentation text in whole musical canon. Beautiful polyphony combined with thought-provoking themes to stir and soothe the soul in equal measure.
Tickets: £15 Full £12 Friends £10 U19 £5 U13 on the door or from Ticketsource

Transports of Delight!
2026-06-27 19:30 - 21:00 | St Andrew’s Church, 53 Jarrom Street, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 7DH, United Kingdom
An eclectic programme of Lyrical Pop, Tudor madrigals, Victoriana, Modes of limited transposition, Country and Western and Folk Song Arrangements
Tom Williams Director
Nick Scott-Burt Piano & Organ
Marc Vastenavondt Compere
Tom Williams says:

‘For our summer concert this year we’re following a route we don’t usually take. We let our hair down more than normal, performing often quite an eclectic programme, which ends up with some pieces one might not necessarily associate with a choir like Leicestershire Chorale…

Over the years we’ve become better and better at delivering this change of musical pace and I know the choir have enjoyed it too, bringing a different challenge to some of the more intense classical music we perform at other points. I’ve had experience and joy in singing music that wasn’t always within my regular wheelhouse, so for this summer I decided to revisit a programme I co-crafted for another group – an a cappella vocal ensemble called Six8.

Transports of Delight is a sometimes wild and heady mix of renaissance madrigals (both English and Italian), a renaissance motet from the Franco-Flemish school; a Romantic English part song by Granville Bantock, a Schubert lied, an imaginative piece of Messiaen organ music, with some a cappella arrangements of folk songs, spirituals and pop songs too. These often very different musical moments are linked by their stories of journeying, by various means and modes of transport and to sometimes surprising and even heavenly destinations.

The evening will be led by a compere, the former West End lead singer and actor Mark Vastenavondt, quite possibly akin to the charming, rambling style of Messrs Flanders and Swann to whom the programme is in a roundabout way dedicated. We hope that, with a glass of something delicious in hand, that you’ll enjoy the journey, stopping to wonder along the way at the many jewels we offer for you to behold. Either way, it’ll certainly be memorable and an exciting departure from our normal fare……’
Tickets: £15 Full £12 Friends £10 U19 £5 U13 on the door and from Ticketsource

From nightly fears and fantasies: Choral Music for Compline
2026-11-07 19:30 - 21:00 | St Andrew’s Church, 53 Jarrom Street, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 7DH, United Kingdom
Choral music, organ and piano solo based on the monastic rite of Compline, including works by John Joubert, Matthew Martin, Henry Balfour Gardiner, William Harris and Kerry Andrew.
Tom Williams – Director
Nick Scott-Burt – Organ and Piano
A mixture of choral music, organ and piano solo to warm the heart and keep out the cold as the clocks go back and the nights draw in. The ancient monastic rite of Compline provides an inspiring structure for this contemplative programme. We bring you both rousing paeans to the ending of the day such as that by Henry Balfour Gardiner and soothing prayers to pave the way for blessed rest from the pen of Jonne Donne – set so beautifully to music by William Harris. Also, some more recent settings of Compline texts by Matthew Martin and Kerry Andrew. We hope these may offer a moment of quiet reflection close to the Eve of All Hallows and the Feast of All Souls.
Tickets: Full £18, Friends £15, U19 £5 on the door and available soon from Ticket source.

The Watchman Waketh: Choral Music for Advent
2026-12-19 18:30 - 19:30 | St Mary de Castro, Castle Street, Leicester, LE1 5WN, United Kingdom
Music for Advent including old favourites by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Orlando Gibbons and Otto Goldschmidt; newer settings of old texts by Christopher Fox and Judith Weir; three stirring congregational hymns; Bach on the piano and the organ; Advent poetry plus more besides, all woven into a moving candlelit sequence.
Tom Williams – Director
Nick Scott-Burt – Organ and Piano
To help maintain your sense of anticipation for Christmas coming, or indeed to offer an alternative to Slade, Mariah and the many iterations of O come all ye faithful you may have already heard this Festive season, we offer you a still rousing and uplifting programme of well-known and more recently-crafted choral and organ pieces for the season of Advent. You even get to join us in song, in three of the greatest carols of the season. As a reward for your efforts, we’ll offer you some mulled wine and a mince pie and hopefully provide a magical, candlelit atmosphere in this beautiful, 12th Century church within Leicester’s Old Castle quarter.
Please note the earlier start time – bring the family.
Tickets: Full £18, Friends £15, U19 £5 on the door and available soon from Ticket source.

Elijah (Pt I) Mendelssohn
2027-03-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Stoneygate Baptist Church, 315 London Road, Leicester, LE2 3ND
Tom Williams – Director
With Nicholas Scott-Burt and Da-Hee Kim piano duet
And Richard Latham baritone
In a similar production to our performance of Haydn’s great oratorio The Creation two seasons ago, we present to you Part I of Felix Mendelssohn’s epic tale of the Old Testament prophet Elijah, accompanied by piano duet and with most of the solo roles taken from within the choir. All except the title role, for which we’re immensely grateful to baritone Richard Latham in agreeing to come and perform with us. Come and revel in some glorious choruses, vocal chamber ensembles, lively narrative and rolling arias. This music is deeply elegant and attractive to the ear. A rare chance to hear the detail of a chamber performance with smaller forces and the clarity of piano duet accompaniment.
Tickets: Full £20, Friends £17, U19 £5 on the door and available soon from Ticket source.

Songs and Sonnets: Choral Music for A Summer's Evening
2027-06-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Church of St Peter and St Paul, Market Place, Uppingham, Leicestershire, LE15 9QH, United Kingdom
A programme inspired by our national bard William Shakespeare, in jazz-infused settings of his and other Elizabethan texts by George Shearing, John Rutter, Jaako Mantyjärvi and with solo songs by Arthur Young
Tom Williams – Director
With Nicholas Scott-Burt piano
Will Smith bass guitar/string bass
and soloists from within the choir
A programme on the lighter side, working with jazz piano and string bass in music by George Shearing (his famous Songs and Sonnets of the late Nineties), John Rutter’s swinging Birthday Madrigals, Jaako Mantyjärvi’s evocative Four Shakespeare Songs and other Elizabethan settings for solo voice by Arthur Young (previously recorded by jazz vocal legend Cleo Laine).
Tickets: Full £20, Friends £17, U19 £5 on the door and available soon from Ticket source.
