Summer Concert
Old Father Thames
Saturday 18th June at 7:30pm
Normansfield Theatre, Teddington
Spring Concert
Praise and Contemplation: Choral Music by Candlelight
Saturday 19th March 2022 at 7:30pm
St Anne's Church, Kew Green, TW9 3AA
Join Cantanti Camerati and period-instrument ensemble Endelienta Baroque for a special evening of sacred vocal and instrumental Baroque music in the atmospheric setting of St Anne's Church, including music by Buxtehude, Leonarda, and Schutz.
Autumn Concert
Come Sweet Music: Choral Masterpieces
Saturday 16th October 2021 at 7.30pm
St James's Church, St James's Road, Hampton Hill, TW12 1DQ
We celebrate the return of live music-making, with a programme from the Golden Age of Polyphony, exploring music of the European Renaissance including Byrd, Dowland, Morley and Weelkes.
Spring Concert
"Devotions: Sacred Music of the Baroque"
Saturday 14th March 2020 at 7.30pm
St Anne's Church, Kew Green, Kew, TW9 3AA
With music from Byrd to Bach via Buxtehude, Cantanti Camerati, accompanied by period instrument ensemble Endelienta Baroque, explore themes of sacred and religious devotion. Join us on this journey through some of the most enduring and profound vocal music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Christmas Concert
"A European Christmas"
Saturday 21st December 2019 at 7.30pm
St Mary's Church, Church Street, Twickenham, TW1 3NJ
Come and join Cantanti Camerati in a concert of beautiful carols for choir and audience from across the ages and across the continent, with organ, readings, handbells and percussion. Sung in a variety of languages, including English!
With Conductor: Seb Gillot and Organist: Jon Booth
Interval drinks available: wine, juice and complimentary mince pies. And the Church tower bells will be rung before the concert to add to our festivities.
Autumn Concert - "Pictures at an Exhibition"
Saturday 19th October 2019 at 7.30pm
The Exchange Theatre, London Road, Twickenham, TW1 1BE
Step into the gallery as Cantanti Camerati take us on a private view with music that reflects themes present in four well-known paintings. Expect the roughness of the high seas, the wonder and solitude of travel and exploration, and the calming hush of starry nights. Music selections from the Renaissance and Age of Enlightenment through to the late 20th Century.
With Conductor: Seb Gillot and Guest Accompanist: Jon Booth
Summer Concert - "The Flowers appear on the Earth"
(part of the festival 'Twickenham goes Green')
St Mary's Church, Church Street, Twickenham, TW1 3NJ
Saturday 15th June 2019, 7.30pm
As part of 'Twickenham Goes Green’, Cantanti Camerati presents a varied and exciting array of songs, arias and choral works, each with the Earth as its keynote; flowers, birds, trees and plants all brought vividly to life by Purcell, Haydn, Mendelssohn and others.
All led by Seb Gillot as conductor, and featuring guest players Jon Booth (organ) and Rosalind Ridout (flute).
Join us for a concert in an idyllic church setting on Twickenham Riverside, with interval drinks and refreshments available.
Spring Serenade: Shakespeare in Song
Saturday 30th March 2019, 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Normansfield Theatre, 2A Langdon Park, Teddington TW11 9PS
Join Cantanti Camerati for their March concert, "Shakespeare in Song", featuring a variety of musical settings of words from Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, including Chilcott, Finzi, Morley, Vaughan Williams, Parry, Haydn, Beach, Shearing and others, interspersed with selected readings. Performed in an informal setting, cabaret-style, with licensed bar (evening) or teas/cakes available (afternoon).
With Piano: David Condry, Double Bass: Phoebe Clarke, and Spoken Word: Clare Cooper
Christmas Concert - "Out of Darkness into Light"
Saturday 22nd December 2018 7.30pm
St Mary's Parish Church, Church Street, Twickenham TW12 3NJ
Come and join Cantanti Camerati for a delightful blend of old and new seasonal favourites, in a Christmas concert entitled “Out of Darkness into Light”. Including carols for choir and audience, readings, organ, string ensemble, handbells and hurdy-gurdy, all announced by the church tower bells ringing before the concert.
Also featuring Jo Moore (Baritone), Jon Booth (Organist) and The Brompton Quartet.
Wine, soft drinks and mince pies available to purchase in the interval.
Autumn Concert - Music of Stage and Screen
Saturday 13th October 2018, 7.30pm
The Exchange Theatre, 75 London Road, Twickenham TW1 1BE
The choir presents a lively and varied evening of entertainment led by conductor Seb Gillot.
An exciting mix of music written for the stage and screen takes highlights from comic opera, grand opera, musicals and film, including works by Purcell, Mozart, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Gilbert & Sullivan, Lloyd Webber, Gershwin and Wagner. With Benedict Kearns accompanying on piano.
Our Golden Anniversary Concert
Saturday 16th June 2018, 7.30pm
St Anne's Church, Kew Green, Kew, TW9 3AA
Under the baton of our new Musical Director, Seb Gillot, the choir celebrates with a trip down memory lane, revisiting some of the wonderful music enjoyed over the last fifty years. Favourite madrigals, partsongs, motets, anthems, folksong settings, spirituals, and a round to reminisce at home and abroad with our friends in our twinned choirs. Including opportunities for all past members in the audience to join in some numbers on the day. With pianist/organist Jon Booth.
Spring Serenade: All at Sea!
Saturday 10th March 2018, 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Normansfield Theatre, Langdon Down Centre, 2A Langdon Park, Teddington, TW11 9PS
A nautical theme means that Cantanti Camerati are “All at Sea!” for their spring serenade at Normansfield Theatre. Join us for a selection of salty songs, including extracts from “HMS Pinafore”, and songs celebrating the richness and diversity of the oceans. An informal audience setting awaits you in the fabulous Grade 2* Victorian theatre, for music with audience participation. Interval refreshments (licensed bar at evening performance).
A participating concert in the Richmond-upon-Thames Music and Drama Festival 2018.
Traditional Christmas Concert
Saturday 16th December 2017, 7.30pm
St Mary's Parish Church, Church Street, Twickenham, TW1 3NJ
Come and celebrate Christmas in a traditional fashion with Cantanti Camerati. Carols for choir and audience, organ and brass ensemble, accompany familiar carol arrangements and contemporary settings, together with music for handbells and instrumental groups. With spirited wassail, gentle lullaby and meditative motet this concert will reflect the essence of Christmas.
The church tower bells will be rung before the concert.
Autumn Concert "A Choral Tapestry"
- rich musical threads from Tudor anthems to American folksong settings
Saturday 21st October 2017, 7.30pm
St James' Church, St James' Road, Hampton Hill, TW12 1DQ
If you enjoy variety in concert programmes, then don’t miss Cantanti Camerati’s autumn concert. Entitled “A Choral Tapestry” it is a colourful selection of items with a number of musical threads: gloriously rich Tudor polyphony contrasted with nineteenth century Romanticism in the first part of the programme, and scintillating contemporary harmony balanced with lighthearted American folksong arrangements in the second.
Choral Concert, with Children's Choir from St Richard Reynolds Catholic College*
with chamber orchestra and accompanist Jon Booth
Saturday 17th June 2017 at 7.30pm
St Anne's Church, Kew Green, Kew TW9 3AA
Five Days that Changed the World - Bob Chilcott
Saint Nicolas - Benjamin Britten (Guest Tenor: William Branston)
and Elgar's Serenade for Strings
*(including children from St Edmunds, St Osmunds, St Elizabeth's and Sacred Heart Primary Schools)
In a new departure Cantanti Camerati are delighted to present Britten’s St. Nicolas with tenor William Branston in the title role and a choir of children from St. Richard Reynolds Catholic College (Director: Caroline Firman), including children from St Edmunds, St Osmunds, St Elizabeth's and Sacred Heart Primary Schools.
This colourful and dramatic work is paired with Bob Chilcott’s Five days that changed the world which also incorporates young voices and celebrates significant events that contributed to world civilisation. The programme is completed by Elgar’s wistful and lyrical Serenade for strings.
Spring Serenade: Not Strictly Just a Song
Saturday 18th March 2017, 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Normansfield Theatre, 2A Langdon Park, Teddington TW11 9PS
Join local chamber choir Cantanti Camerati in the picturesque Normansfield Theatre for a lighthearted concert in an informal setting. Stephen Gregson, Conductor, will present a contrasting selection of a capella songs from different eras, new and old, plus music from 'Les Miserables'. The programme will include Rutter’s Five Childhood Lyrics, an eclectic mix of madrigals and partsongs, and will definitely invite audience participation!
Our special guests are The Guards’ Saxophone Quartet from the Corps of Army Music.
Christmas Concert 2016
Carols for Choir and Audience, with Handbells, Organ and String Ensemble
Saturday 17th December 2016 at 7.30pm
St Mary's Parish Church, Church Street, Twickenham TW1 3NJ
A traditional Christmas Concert with the opportunity to participate in singing favourite carols, with a return appearance of the Camilli String Quartet accompanying the choir in extracts from Handel’s Messiah, together with some well-known carol settings, and some of the best of contemporary compositions. Add to this a lively wassail and a performance from the handbell team and this becomes an entertaining and festive evening!
And - enjoy the church tower bells being rung before the concert...........
Autumn Concert - 'From East to West'
Saturday 15th October 2016, 7.30pm at All Hallows Church, Twickenham TW1 1EW
Sacred vocal music from Russia to Portugal (via Austria and England) including anthems from the Russian Orthodox tradition, Renaissance anthems by Portuguese and Spanish composers, compositions from Austria of the Romantic period, and music by English composers Tavener and Rutter. With Guest Percussionist Matthew Farthing (BBC Young Musician 2014 Finalist).
A Summer Celebration Concert
Saturday 9th July 2016, 7.30pm at St Francis de Sales Church Hall, Hampton Hill - and
Friday 22nd July 2016, 8pm at Riverside Arts Centre, 59 Thames Street, Sunbury-on-Thames
A selection of madrigals from The Triumphs of Oriana in honour of the Queen's 90th birthday, Vaughan Williams’ Three Shakespeare Songs, evocative partsongs by Stanford, a selection of spirituals and more contemporary numbers.
Spring Concert - The English Baroque
(with chamber orchestra)
Saturday 14th May 2016, 7.30pm
at St Anne's Church, Kew Green TW9 3AA
A celebration of the work of Handel, Purcell, Blow and Boyce including two of Handel’s festive Coronation Anthems, “The King shall rejoice” and “My heart is inditing”, contrasted with unaccompanied works such as the haunting “Hear my prayer” of Purcell and “Salvator mundi” of Blow complemented by Boyce's joyous Symphony in D and Handel’s charming Concerto Grosso in G Op.6
Just a Song at Twilight no. 40 "My Fair Lady"
Friday 4th March 2016 at 7.30 pm and Saturday 5th March 2016 at 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Normansfield Theatre, Langdon Down Centre, 2a Langdon Park, off Kingston Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 9PS
A special celebration of forty years of “Just a Song at Twilight” with Conductor Stephen Gregson and special Guest Conductor Geoffrey Bowyer, the founder of these concerts. The theme is “My Fair Lady”: an appreciation of female beauty and virtue in song, including madrigals, part songs, contemporary settings and numerous numbers from the Lerner and Loewe musical (with plenty of opportunity for audience participation!)
Christmas Concert 2015
Carols for Choir and Audience, with Handbells, Organ and String Ensemble
Saturday 19th December 2015 at 7.30pm
St Mary's Parish Church, Church Street, Twickenham TW1 3NJ
A traditional Christmas Concert, with music from rustic wassail to contemporary carol, and plenty of opportunity for audience participation in some old favourites.
On the classical side we feature Das neugeborne Kindelein by Buxtehude, and antiphonal motets by Palestrina and Scheidt, and this year we revive some well-loved arrangements by Sir Malcolm Sargent and Sir David Willcocks. We also include a lovely arrangement of I wonder as I wander by Geoffrey Bowyer, and Malcolm Archer’s A child is born in Bethlehem. With Jon Booth (Organ) and Camilli String Quartet.
'With Heart and Soul and Voice!' - a concert of sacred and secular music
Saturday 17th October 2015 at 7.30 pm
St. Mary's Church, Church Street, Hampton, Middlesex TW12 2EB
A celebration of choral music from the Renaissance to the present day; including English madrigals (Farnaby, Vautor and Tomkins), with anthems and other sacred works from later periods (Bach and Brückner), romantic part-songs (eg Sterndale Bennett and Elgar), and a selection of recent choral works (Eric Whitacre's 'Lux Aurumque' and Tavener's 'Song for Athene').
