This coming weekend, 16-17 February, St Stephen’s Church Choir are singing the choral services in Winchester Cathedral. Music on Saturday has a Tudor flavour, with the canticles and anthem by Orlando Gibbons. On Sunday, the First Sunday of Lent, music … Continue reading
This coming Saturday, 26th February, St Stephen’s Church Choir are siging Evensong in Canterbury Cathedral at 3.15pm. The music is shown below – please come along and support us! Preces & Responses – Ayleward Psalm 119 vv. 145-152 Canticles … Continue reading
It always feels like the Christmas season starts properly when we sing carols at our local pub, Ye Olde Beverlie, after our last rehearsal before Christmas and this year was no exception. A splendid evening of singing carols (including the … Continue reading
On Friday 21st December, St Stephen’s Church Choir will be seen on BBC South East Today, the local news programme for Kent and East Sussex broadcast on BBC1 at 6.30pm. The choir spent an enjoyable evening at the beginning of … Continue reading
Below is a list of rehearsal and service times over the Christmas week. I know that is a very busy time of year for everyone but please try to be at as much as possible; your musical contribution to the … Continue reading
Last weekend, 3-5 August, St Stephen’s Church Choir sang the services at Portsmouth Cathedral. Music included canticles by Stanford, Ireland and Brewer, anthems by Wood, Peeters and Goodall and Widor’s setting of the Mass on Sunday Morning. The weekend also … Continue reading
Following our singing at Evensong in Canterbury Cathedral last week where the music included plainsong psalms, fauxbourdons by Thomas Morley and my setting of ‘Teach me, O Lord’, I received a very complimentary letter from the Precentor today. It reaffirmed … Continue reading
Leading up to our participation in this year’s Top Choir Kent competition, one of our pieces was played on BBC Radio Kent this morning – click here to listen again on iPlayer (we’re on around 21 minutes in) Related links: … Continue reading
St Stephen’s Church Choir sang Choral Evensong in Canterbury Cathedral on Thursday 16th February, the on which the Cathedral commemorates Saints and Martyrs of our own time. The quality of singing was excellent and the choir received many positive comments … Continue reading
St Stephen’s Choir are excited to have been offered a place in the final of the Top Choir Kent competition, run by Canterbury Rotary Club, for the third year running. Established in 2010, the competition invites choirs from across Kent … Continue reading