Our Concerts

2024-25
Season

This year our charity concert will be in aid of
Acorns Children’s Hospice

Carols for All Charity Concert

Saturday 28 December 2024 – 3 pm
Great Malvern Priory, Church Street, Malvern

Open Rehearsal

Join us for an Open Rehearsal on Tuesday 3 September 2024 at 7.30 pm in St Edmunds Hall, College Road, Malvern when we’ll be starting to rehearse for this concert. You’re guaranteed a warm welcome from Conductor Jonathan Brown and members of the choir.

Haydn – Nelson Mass

Rory Boyle – Cantemus Igitur

Saturday 8 February 2025

Great Malvern Priory

Puccini – Messa di Gloria

Faure – Requiem

Saturday 10 May 2025

Great Malvern Priory

 

 

Come & Sing and Concert

Songs from the Stage

Saturday 28 June 2025

Great Malvern Priory

 

 

 

 

Haydn's Creation

Malvern Festival Chorus and conductor Jonathan Brown will be hosting a workshop and concert of Haydn’s choral favourite, Creation, in the beautiful setting of Great Malvern Priory. They invite local singers to join them in singing this work, with organ accompaniment and young soloists of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Afternoon tea will be provided between the workshop and concert. Non-singers will be welcomed for the evening performance. Drinks will be available after the concert. For more details about timings for the day,

 

Come & Sing and Concert

Haydn’s Creation

Saturday 29 June 2024

Great Malvern Priory,

Church Street, Malvern

 

Ticket Details

Come & Sing – 12.30 for 1.00 pm.

£20 for visiting singers. Includes music hire, concert programme and tea between workshop and concert.

Concert 7.00 pm. Tickets £15

Come & Sing and Concert Free for under 21s

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Malvern Festival Chorus and conductor Jonathan Brown invite you to a concert featuring  John Rutter’s Feel the Spirit, Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and works by Howard Goodall and Herbert Howells in the uplifting surroundings of Great Malvern Priory. The choir will be joined by a professional ensemble and Mezzo-Soprano Chloe Underwood. 

Ticket Details

Great Malvern Priory
Saturday 18 May – 7:00pm

Ticket Price £15.00
17-21s £10.00
16s and under Free
(with paying adult)

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Malvern Festival Chorus and conductor Jonathan Brown will be joined by members of the London-based 1885 Singers to perform this much-loved oratorio.
They will be accompanied by a professional orchestra and soloists; Quentin Hayes, baritone, as Elijah, Louise Wayman, soprano, Beth Moxon, mezzo-soprano and MFC’s President and internationally-renowned tenor, James Oxley.

Mendelssohn’s Elijah

Saturday 10 February 2024 – 7 pm

Great Hall, Malvern College, Malvern 

 

Ticket Details

Great Hall, Malvern College
College Road, Malvern WR14 3DF

7:00pm

Ticket Price £18.00
17-21s £10.00
16s and under Free
(one per paying adult)

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This year our charity concert will be in aid of
Malvern Hills Foodbank

Carols for All Charity Concert

Thursday 28 December 2023 – 3 pm
Great Malvern Priory, Church Street, Malvern

Malvern Festival Chorus will be joining the London-based 1885 Singers to perform this much-loved oratorio in an iconic venue

Mendelssohn’s Elijah

Saturday 4 November 2023 with 1885 Singers
St John’s Smith Square, London

2022-23 Season

Malvern Festival Chorus rounds off the season by offering an opportunity to join them in performing Mozart’s moving Requiem in the beautiful setting of Malvern’s 11th century Priory. The event will feature an orchestra and soloists from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
For more details about the Come & Sing day, click here

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A selection of contemporary music celebrating Britain’s island heritage.
Featuring baritone soloist and piano accompaniment, the programme will also include the baritone solos Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Silent Noon, Gerald Finzi’s To Lizbie Brown and Benjamin Britten’s Tom Bowling

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Malvern Festival Chorus’s
annual charity concert to round
off the festive season
Over £1,200 raised for Malvern Hills Foodbank
An exciting selection of seasonal music with orchestra and soloists to get the festive season off to a flying start. Featuring orchestra and soloists from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

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2021-22 Season

A rare opportunity to join Malvern Festival Chorus, together with orchestra and soloists, in singing the full version of Handel’s much-loved Messiah.

Choral Workshop and Concert
Saturday 25 June 2022
Holy Trinity Church, Link Top, Malvern
Workshop: 12.30pm registration for
1.00pm start
Concert: 7.00pm

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A chance to participate in a workshop and performance of Karl Jenkins’ poignant Mass for Peace.

Choral Workshop and Concert
Saturday 7 May 2022
Christ Church, Avenue Road, Malvern
Workshop: 12.30pm registration for
1.00pm start
Concert: 7.00pm

2020-21 Season

Our “comeback” concert, celebrating our love of song and singing together took the form of a delightful social get-together for choir members performing Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzer outdoors.

2019-20 Our Centenary Season

Malvern Festival Chorus’s annual charity concert to round off the festive season.

This year in aid of Heartstart Malvern.

DUE TO COVID-19, THE FOLLOWING CONCERTS HAD TO BE POSTPONED.
IT IS HOPED TO RESCHEDULE THEM IN A FUTURE SEASON.

Malvern Festival Chorus rounds off its Centenary Season in style when current Musical Director, Jonathan Brown, will be joined on the conductor’s podium by former Musical Directors including Rory Boyle, Michael Brown and Iain Sloan

A very special occasion for Malvern Festival Chorus as part of their Centenary Season celebrations.

The choir is delighted that they will be joined by their President, internationally acclaimed tenor James Oxley, singing the role of The Evangelist and bass Giles Underwood as Christus,
as well as soprano Louise Wayman , alto Helen Charlston, tenor Tom Raskin, bass Henry Neill and orchestra, Musical and Amicable Society