Concerts

The stunning and thought-provoking surroundings of Holy Cross Priory Church in the centre of Leicester’s New Walk provide an apposite setting for this programme of music for Lent and Passiontide. At the centre of our sequence is James Weeks startling work Orlando Tenebrae, written between 2006 and 2010, which highlights man’s capacity for inhumanity towards […]

Sunday 28 May 2017, Come and support us in our annual efforts to raise money for our work with young singers, both those who come to join our choir as Choral Scholars and those we work with as part of our YouthFindaVoice scheme. A 5pm concert filled with madrigals, part songs, solos from our existing […]

Our Lady’s Convent School has recently become the fourth in the Loughborough Endowed Schools Foundation, and this has delivered another opportunity for a renewal of the strong relationship between Leicestershire Chorale and the LES Music School. We co-present a programme of English and Italian madrigals, given in the resonant acoustic of OLCS Chapel, including music […]

We look to kick off our 40th Anniversary in style with a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s epic setting of the Requiem. Once again in collaboration with the Bardi Symphony Orchestra, we are joined by a cast-list of internationally-renowned soloists – Soprano Maureen Brathwaite, Mezzo Catherine Griffiths, Tenor Andrew Kennedy and Bass Graeme Broadbent and many […]

Following what we hope to be the glorious success of our Verdi concert a month earlier, we turn to another giant of the popular choral repertoire in Handel’s oratorio Messiah. Arguably the most celebrated piece of classical music within the historical canon, Uppingham Parish Church has waited many years to hear Handel’s music again and […]