Concerts & Events
Season 2019 - 2020
Concert – COMPLETED
23
November 2019
7:30pm
St Mary’s Church, Petworth, GU28 0AE
Autumn Choral Extravaganza
Rossini – Petite Messe Solennelle and popular opera choruses: Bizet – March of the Toreadors from Carmen Puccini – Humming Chorus from Madama Butterfly Donizetti – Chorus of Wedding Guests from Lucia di Lammermoor Purcell – Dido’s Lament and final chorus from Dido and Aeneas Verdi – Brindisi from La Traviata
Next Event – Concert
21
March 2020
7:30pm
Petersfield Festival Hall
Heath Rd, GU31 4EA
Eighteenth-Century Masters
Vivaldi – Dixit Dominus RV 594
Haydn – ‘Mariazeller’ Mass
Takes you to The Petersfield Musical Festival website
The final concert of the 2020 Petersfield Musical Festival features choral works by two of the great masters of the eighteenth century, Antonio Vivaldi and Joseph Haydn.
We shall be performing with the Petersfield Choral Society and SouthDowns Camerata under conductor Paul Spicer.
The concert also includes the Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F BWV 1047 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Come & Sing
25
April 2020
1:00pm - 5:30pm
St Mary’s Church
Petworth, GU28 0AE
Gilbert & Sullivan
Come and learn selected choruses from the famous duo’s comic operas including:
Trial by Jury, The Pirates of Penzance, The Gondoliers, Iolanthe and H.M.S. Pinafore
Concert
6
June 2020
7:30pm
St Paul’s Church,
Chichester, PO19 6FT
Handel : Samson
Past Performances
November 2019 Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle and popular opera choruses by Bizet, Puccini, Donizetti, Purcell and Verdi in St Mary’s Church, Petworth
May 2019 Haydn The Creation in Chichester Cathdral with Downland Sinfonia
March 2019 George Dyson The Canterbury Pilgrims in the Petersfield Musical Festival with the Petersfield Choral and Midhurst Music Societies, the Petersfield Choir and Southern Pro Musica
November 2018 Mendelssohn Hymn of Praise and Verleih uns Friden and Parry I Was Glad in St Paul’s Church, Chichester
June 2018 Verdi Requiem in St Paul’s Church, Chichester with Downland Sinfonia
March 2018 Mozart Requiem and Britten Rejoice in the Lamb in the Petersfield Musical Festival with the Petersfield Choral and Midhurst Music Societies and the Hampshire County Youth Chamber Orchestra
November 2017 Bob Chilcott A Little Jazz Mass and Songs from The American Songbook in St Mary’s Church, Petworth
May 2017 Mendelssohn Elijah in Chichester Cathedral with Fernhurst Chamber Orchestra
March 2017 Dvorak Stabat mater in the Petersfield Musical Festival
November 2016 Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes and Rutter The Sprig of Thyme in St Mary’s Church, Petworth
June 2016 Fauré Requiem, Britten Rejoice in the Lamb, Bach O Jesu Christ meins Lebens Licht in St Alban’s Church, Hindhead
March 2016 Weber Mass in E flat and Mendelssohn Verleih uns Frieden in the Petersfield Musical Festival
November 2015 Handel Messiah with Fernhurst Chamber Orchestra
May 2015 Schubert German Stabat mater and Mass in A Flat in St Paul’s Church, Chichester, with Le Chant Sacré and Fernhurst Chamber Orchestra
March 2015 Haydn Nelson Mass and Willcocks A Great and Glorious Victory in the Petersfield Musical Festival
November 2014 Elgar Spirit of England, Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs and Stanford Songs of the Fleet in St Mary’s Church, Petworth, with Terence Allbright (piano) and the Chichester String Quartet
May 2014 Mozart Requiem in St Paul’s Church, Chichester, with the Fernhurst Chamber Orchestra
March 2014 Bernstein Chichester Psalms and Rutter Requiem in the Petersfield Musical Festival
November 2013 Bernstein Chichester Psalms and Janáček Otčenáš in St Albans Church, Hindhead
June 2013 Haydn Nelson Mass and Vivaldi Gloria in St Paul’s Church, Chichester, with the Fernhurst Chamber Orchestra
March 2013 Britten St Nicolas and Purcell Ode to St Cecilia in the Petersfield Musical Festival