The Chamber Choir is now heading into its final performing commitments of this academic year, the first of which is Friday 8 June.

Part of the University’s ‘Summer Music,’ a five-day festival of musical events celebrating the end of another academic year, the Chamber Choir comes together with the Cecilian Choir for a programme of music in praise of the Virgin Mary.

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Ave Maria, on Friday 8 June at 7.30pm at St Mildred’s Church, Canterbury, includes Schutz’s lively Jauchzet den Herren for double-choir, and a combined performance of Gorecki’s epic Totus Tuus. Other pieces in the concert include Rachmaninov’s Bogoroditsye Dyevo, the ‘Kyrie’ and ‘Sanctus’ from Victoria’ Missa O Magnum Mysterium, and we’ve replaced Victoria’s version of the motet with Lauridsen’s beautiful setting, together with Lauridsen’s light-footed En une seule fleur.

After the concert, should the weather be fine and summery, we’ll be spilling out onto the greensward behind the church for al fresco refreshments, which may even include some impromptu music-making as well…

It’s going to be a lovely occasion, in the fine acoustics of St Mildred’s, and the penultimate choral commitment of the Chamber Choir’s year; we’ll be making a final appearance in the Music Society Sunday concert, Music for a Summer’s Day, on Sunday 10 June, in a boisterous finale together with the Concert Band, Chorus and Orchestra.

Details about Ave Maria, together with all the events in Summer Music, online here. Don’t miss it…