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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Malvern Hills Foodbank
Carols for All Charity Concert
Thursday 28 December 2023 – 3 pm
Great Malvern Priory, Church Street, Malvern
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
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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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annual charity concert to round
off the festive season
Over £1,200 raised for Malvern Hills Foodbank
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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.
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.
Saturday 7 May 2022
Christ Church, Avenue Road, Malvern
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
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.
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