News
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Meet our soloists!
We’re delighted to welcome four top soloists to join us and the orchestra for our concert on 30 November: here’s a little more about each one of them. Katharine Hawnt, soprano Katharine is no stranger to us: she lives locally and has sung with SCC several times in the past. She is passionate about the…
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Capturing our best angles
Some new photos of SCC were long overdue! Thanks to Jim Johnson Photography who took on the not insignificant challenge of capturing our best side during our concert back in July. You can see many of the photos on various pages of the website, but if you’d like a look at more of them, have a look…
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Our long awaited birthday celebration
What an occasion our anniversary celebration concert was! We were so pleased finally to be able to perform Bach’s great B minor mass on 18 March, and to an audience of nearly 500 – thanks to all our audience for supporting us, and to our wonderful soloists and orchestral players. Here’s to the next 40…
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Join us for a Bach celebration!
Tickets are now on sale for our celebration concert on 18 March! Join us for one of the greatest works in the repertoire, along with a period orchestra of some of the finest players in the country, and four top soloists. With virtuosic choruses in multiple parts, arias and duets, instrumental solos, and an incredible…
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Evensong to start the New Year
We enjoyed singing a lovely late-Christmas evensong to start the new term on Monday 3 January. Many thanks to St Cuthbert’s Church Wells for hosting us in their wonderful church (if you’re in Wells, it’s definitely worth visiting) and to all those who came to listen to Howells and Ayleward, and to Simon Clarkson for…
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Don’t miss our fortieth anniversary world premiere!
We’re really excited to be finally giving the first complete performance of a new setting of the ancient ‘O’ Advent Antiphons by David Bednall at our Advent concert on 26 November in Sherborne Abbey. We commissioned David to write the set over three years, to celebrate our fortieth anniversary in 2019, but the Pandemic of…