Concerts

Sacred and Secular Choral Music for Advent With David Cowen Organ Join Leicestershire Chorale amidst the candlelit beauty of All Saint’s Church in Pickwell for an evening of sacred and secular choral music, readings and organ solos to stir up the Christmas spirit in the season of Advent.   Tickets £12 from TicketSource. Buy now […]

Music by Monteverdi and the Franco-Flemish School With David Cowen Organ We begin our concerts of 2019 with a lesser-known but rather glorious Parody Mass by Monteverdi, which draws its musical motivic inspiration from a six-part motet by the much earlier Franco-Flemish composer Nicolas Gombert. Whilst the mass ostensibly looks back to the stile antico […]

Dietrich Buxtehude and other Choral Music for Passiontide With Leicester Cathedral Choir (Dir. Chris Ouvry-Johns) Leicestershire Camerata, and David Cowen Organ April 2019 sees the renewal of our fruitful partnership with Leicester Cathedral, their Director of Music Christopher Ouvry-Johns and his talented singers. Following acclaimed performances of Bach’s St John Passion and Rosenmüller’s Vespers of […]

With Catherine Griffiths Mezzo-Soprano and David Cowen Piano. For our final concert of the season we are delighted to welcome back Mezzo-Soprano Catherine Griffiths, who has appeared as a regular visiting soloist with Chorale over the past few years. We present a programme of music from American and British Twentieth Century Greats, including Aaron Copland’s […]

Tom Williams Conductor David Cowen Organ Avishka Edirisinghe Piano Danushka Edirisinghe ‘Cello Leicestershire Chorale is joined by talented young ‘cellist Danushka Edirisinghe and his pianist brother Avishka (a fomer choral scholar) for ravishing music by German romantic masters Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn. Our young Meisters will play music to include some of Brahms’ Sonata […]