Sat 18th May 2013 Sat 22nd June 2013 7.00pm 7.30pm About St Peter’s Singers PARISH CHURCH OF Norcliffe Chapel ST JOHN THE BAPTIST Styal, Cheshire SK9 4LH Church Lane, Knaresborough St Peter’s HG5 9AR A programme of Contemporary Handel: Samson Sacred Choral Singers Handel set to with a will to compose Samson immediately Music and Organ of following the triumphant success Solos of Messiah in Dublin in 1742. The A Chamber founded in 1977 by Harry Fearnley moving biblical account is shot St Peter’s Singers through with immortal themes David Houlder organ of love and betrayal and the Chairman: Librarian: Dr Simon Lindley director Dr Simon Lindley David Houlder conflict between the Israelites Tim Burleigh James Carter and the Philistines proves highly Further details available in early 2013. [email protected] Leeds-based conductor and David is strongly committed to dramatic in part two of the Public Relations & Publicity Officer: organist Dr Simon Lindley (Master the regular work of St Peter’s work. Magnificent choruses and Secretary: David Hawkin of the Music at Singers and is our valued and memorable solo numbers abound Patricia Rose [email protected] and Leeds City Organist) is Music highly esteemed organist and and the brilliant orchestral “...the excellent [email protected] Music Director: Director of St Peter’s Singers – a accompanist. David moved to accompaniment enhances the St Peter’s Singers – Concerts Secretary: Dr Simon Lindley position he has held since the Leeds in 2003 after twenty years drama. Quentin Brown 07860 293 591 Choir’s foundation 35 years ago. of music-making on Merseyside forty flexible and [email protected] [email protected] Before moving to Leeds in 1975, as Director of Music to Liverpool’s Dr Lindley served at Westminster historic Bluecoat School and Sub- St Peter’s Singers Treasurer: precisely tuned and St Albans Cathedrals and Organist of Liverpool Cathedral. In National Festival Orchestra Jonathan Morrish in the City of London. He was November 2011 David conducted Sally Robinson leader voices who made the first full-time assistant to Dr the Singers in an acclaimed Sarah Potter soprano the English text Founded by Harry Fearnley in the Spring of 1977, St Peter’s Singers is Peter Hurford at St Albans. Simon programme of British music for Helen Strange soprano one of England’s leading Chamber . Based at Leeds Minster, still retains very strong links Remembrancetide including Paul Dutton tenor speak directly to the Singers strive to combine excellence and enterprise. with the City, where his career Vaughan Williams’ searingly Quentin Brown bass the audience” The Choir comprises adult singers, mostly amateur musicians, but began. Additional to his work beautiful Dona nobis pacem. with the Choir of Leeds Minster Philip Wilcox bass Airedale and Wharfedale Observer, including a number of professional singers in its ranks. Students and Concert Season and St Peter’s Singers, Simon is Alan Horsey harpsichord April 2012 young people are always welcome and St Peter’s Singers takes pride in St Peter’s its role as a cultural bridge between ‘town’ and ‘gown’. Conductor of Sheffield Bach Choir David Houlder chamber organ and Doncaster Choral Society. In Chamber Orchestra 2012/2013 Dr Simon Lindley director The Singers sustain an enviable reputation for performances of July 2012 he received an honorary St Peter’s Chamber Orchestra, Bach and Handel, with Continental polyphony and English music Tickets: £12 (£8 concessions, doctorate from the University of leader Mary Huby, accompanies The Singers’ 36th season includes performances of Bach and also at the heart of the Choir’s repertoire. Music by Elgar, Vaughan Knaresborough schoolchildren free) Huddersfield for services to choral many St Peter’s Singers events. Williams, Mendelssohn, Purcell and S S Wesley has featured in recent Handel sacred oratorios in Halifax, Leeds and Knaresborough. Available from 1st April from music locally, nationally and The Orchestra was involved in the Knaresborough Parish Church, commemoration concerts. internationally. The choir’s now traditional Good Friday concert at Leeds Box Office, earliest concerts arranged by the The Carriageworks, Millennium Square, In the 2010/2011 season the Singers took part in the award-winning Singers in 1977 and 1978. Minster features superb choral music by Brahms, culminating Leeds LS2 3AD – 0113 224 3801 live BBC TV production of Frankenstein’s Wedding at in the magnificent German Requiem. English composers are and at the door. as well as recording Dominic Haslam’s music for the acclaimed West represented by liturgical performances of Herbert Howells’ Yorkshire Playhouse production of John Ford’s ‘Tis pity she’s a whore. Requiem and Charles Wood’s St Mark Passion. Please also visit the St Peter’s Singers website: Critics’ assessment of each production paid warm tribute to the Singers’ www.stpeters-singers.org.uk involvement. Former SPS member Jessi Pywell served as choral director Cover photo © Andy Paraskos for Frankenstein’s Wedding. St Peter’s Singers of Leeds In addition to regular commitments in and around Leeds, St Peter’s David Houlder Dr Simon Lindley Singers have in recent years performed at the Minsters of York, Halifax, organist director Doncaster and Dewsbury, and the Cathedrals of Derby, Ely, Guildford, @SPSLeeds Leicester, London’s St Paul’s, Ripon and Worcester. Overseas tours to Romania, Mallorca and Brittany attracted large audiences and St Peter’s Singers is a Registered Charity No 507174 All are regularly updated with more details of these and the Singers’ considerable acclaim. The Singers also appear at the special Harvey other 2012/2013 concerts, recitals and services. Nichols seasonal events held within Leeds’ spectacular Victoria Quarter. www.stpeters-singers.org.uk www.stpeters-singers.org.uk

St Peter's Brochure 2012 99x210 8pp.indd 1-4 14/08/2012 09:22 Mon 27th August 2012 The Choirs Sun 14th October 2012 Sat 24th November 2012 Good Friday Sun 28th April 2013 2.30pm of Leeds Minster 3.00pm 7.00pm Wed 12th December 2012 7.00pm Fri 29th March 2013 8.15pm THE MORAVIAN CHURCH, St Peter’s Singers LEEDS MINSTER LEEDS MINSTER Kirkgate, Leeds LS2 7DJ 7.00pm LEEDS MINSTER FULNECK Kirkgate, Leeds LS2 7DJ Church Street, Halifax HX1 1QL LEEDS MINSTER Kirkgate, Leeds LS2 7DJ David Houlder organist , Leeds LS28 8NT by kind permission Carols for a Choral Future Kirkgate, Leeds LS2 7DJ by kind invitation Dr Simon Lindley director Friends of the The Minster’s annual Carol Concert – in aid of the Minster’s Music with Minster To assist with catering, please let Bach: Bridging the Gap initiative. Brahms: Haydn: the Parish Office know if you will be Music Festival Connections attending and how many, including Christmas Oratorio German Requiem An evening of music by Nelson Mass yourself in the total, will be with us – Evensong St Peter’s Singers [email protected] or phone Bach’s cantata cycle known and sacred choral music for composers particularly associated This year, music by Haydn and 0113 245 2036 and quote “SPS leaflet”. The Choirs and loved as the Christmas The Choir of Leeds Minster Passiontide with Leeds Minster over the 171 Mozart takes us to the period years since the consecration of You will then be sent tickets. of Leeds Minster Oratorio was designed for the Leeds College of Music The works chosen for the Singers’ immediately following the glories the present building in 1841. major services of the ‘twelve Community Choral Society Tickets: £5 adults, £2.50 under 16s Good Friday concert from the of the – to the time of the St Peter’s Singers Francis Jackson’s Stabat Mater Tues 18th September 2012 days of Christmas’ leading Rothwell Temperance Band Available 1st October from Leeds City pen of written earliest days of Fulneck’s historic David Houlder organist Centre Box Office, The Carriageworks, was commissioned by St Peter’s from the feast of the Nativity David Houlder organist within a twenty year span in Moravian Settlement, in fact. A 7.30pm Dr Simon Lindley director Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 3AD – Singers in 1997 for the Choir’s to that of the Epiphany. This middle life, will all be sung sub-title might be “Where the THE PARISH CHURCH Dr Simon Lindley director 0113 224 3801 and at the door. twentieth anniversary season and magical music is wonderfully in the original German texts, Baroque went”! OF ST HILDA Stewart Magnificat and Nunc Donald Hunt’s Hymnus Paschalis compelling, energised and with full translations provided Cross Green Lane, Leeds LS9 0DG dimittis in C sharp minor was written during his tenure at entirely memorable. Sung in the within the programme book. St Peter’s Singers Rose Responses Mon 18th February 2013 Sun 10th March 2013 Worcester Cathedral. traditional English translation, our The glorious German Requiem Moore All wisdom cometh 12.00 noon and 1.05pm 6.30pm St Peter’s Chamber Orchestra Solemn Mass performance in the magnificent makes wonderful use of biblical from the Lord setting of historic Halifax Minster LEEDS MINSTER St Peter’s Singers Mary Huby leader with the Archdeacon of Leeds, texts from both Old and New Address by Mr Philip Moore, provides a very rare chance for The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AD Kirkgate, Leeds LS2 7DJ Kristina James soprano The Venerable Paul Hooper Testaments as opposed to the David Houlder organist Organist Emeritus of York Minster those present to join in the singing Lucy Appleyard mezzo soprano more frequently-set Latin of the Dr Simon Lindley director Like the ‘king’s daughter’ in the of the traditional chorale hymns. Toby Ward tenor Bach: Wood: The Passion Missa pro defunctis. psalm, St Hilda’s Church is ‘all Sun 4th November 2012 Wesley Magnificat & Nunc Philip Wilcox bass glorious within’. Leeds Minster St Peter’s Singers St John Passion according to 6.30pm St Peter’s Singers dimittis in E (1845) Alan Horsey organ musicians have sustained a St Peter’s Chamber Orchestra The ‘St John’ is the earliest of Bach’s Saint Mark Cast me not away (1848) Dr Simon Lindley director historic connection with St Hilda’s LEEDS MINSTER two surviving works in the Passion- National Festival Orchestra Mary Huby leader Cambridge-based musician Dr Bairstow Let all mortal flesh over the years and are delighted Kirkgate, Leeds LS2 7DJ Oratorio tradition of the Baroque. Sally Robinson leader Charles Wood, who succeeded keep silence (1906) Haydn Insanae et vanae curae to be providing music for this Sarah Potter soprano Narrative and highly dramatic by Kristina James soprano Mozart Splendente te, Deus year’s Dedication Festival Mass. Anita Wiencelewski soprano Sir Charles Stanford as University If the Lord had not helped me Howells: Requiem turns, with the chorus strategically Lucy Appleyard alto (1910) Mozart Ave verum corpus Mozart’s youthful exuberance is Lucy Appleyard alto involved as representative of the Professor of Music, was born here sung within the context of the in the West Riding in 1866. Wood’s Quentin Brown bass Cook Antiphon of Darkness well to the fore in his K275 Mass, Stephen Newlove tenor crowd as the events of the first Haydn Missa in angustiis liturgy of All Souls, for departed David Houlder organ and Light (1973) probably written around 1777 for Holy Week unfolded in Jerusalem, deeply-felt St Mark Passion of 1920 (the ‘Nelson’ Mass) benefactors and faithful. Philip Wilcox bass performance at Salzburg. The final the St John Passion will be sung in was composed at the express Dr Simon Lindley director St Patrick’s Breastplate (1947) Free admission (Retiring Collection) Alan Horsey continuo movement is, remarkably, a choral One of the jewels of the 20th English with a chance for people request of Eric Milner-White, then Jackson Stabat Mater (1997) David Houlder chamber organ Brahms Alto Rhapsody (1870) gavotte to the words Dona nobis century English musical crown, to sing the traditional hymns as Dean of King’s College, for use at Lindley Lord, I have loved the Geistliches Lied (1856) Sun 2nd September 2012 pacem and closes in hushed tones. Howells’ deeply-felt Requiem – Dr Simon Lindley director the work proceeds. The work’s King’s. The work provided from habitation of Thy house (1979) the first a startling contrast to 3.00pm written during the early 1930s in first half takes around 45 minutes, Warum ist das Licht gegeben? Ave Maria (1980) Tickets: £12 (£8 concessions, the headier Victorian expression (1879) LEEDS MINSTER St Peter’s Singers memory of the composer’s son Halifax schoolchildren free) with the second part concluding at of Stainer’s Crucifixion, while Hunt Hymnus Paschalis (1995) Kirkgate, Leeds LS2 7DJ St Peter’s Chamber Orchestra Michael – remained unpublished Available from 1st October by post from about 2.25pm. Ein deutsches Requiem (1865-8) for half a century. St Peter’s Singers The Secretary, St Peter’s Singers, containing many of the same Free admission (Retiring Collection) Mary Huby leader c/o 5 St Peter’s House, Kirkgate, Tickets: £12, (£8 concessions) Service of gave one of the very earliest Stephen Newlove tenor elements deployed by Stainer, Available from 1st February from Claire Strafford soprano Leeds LS2 7DJ, from Halifax Minster and (Evangelist) including hymns for all to sing. St performances of the work thirty at the door. Leeds City Centre Box Office, Dedication and Derek Ford, years ago. Philip Wilcox bass (Christus) Peter’s Singers have performed The Carriageworks, Millennium Square, Thanksgiving Gareth Price countertenor Kristina James soprano the work regularly over the years. Leeds LS2 3AD – 0113 224 3801 Philip Steel tenor and at the door. ‘Minster-making’ is led by the St Peter’s Singers Lucy Appleyard alto St Peter’s Singers Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, who Quentin Brown bass Anita Wiencelewski soprano Paul Dutton tenor Paul Dutton tenor “Inspired by Simon Lindley’s animated, gives the address at this historic Dr Simon Lindley director Quentin Brown bass Quentin Brown bass occasion. We welcome warmly Alasdair Jamieson bass Quentin Brown bass Mozart Missa Brevis David Houlder organ focused direction the responsive choir Dr Donald Hunt OBE, Director Alan Horsey harpsichord Philip Wilcox bass in B flat, K275 Dr Simon Lindley director of Music at Leeds from 1957 to David Houlder chamber organ David Houlder organ with their bright soprano tone and clear Mozart Ave verum corpus 1975, to take part in the music Dr Simon Lindley director Dr Simon Lindley director of the service and conduct the Victoria Ave Maria articulation were in fine voice” celebratory Te Deum. (double choir setting) Free admission (Retiring Collection) Free admission (Retiring Collection) Halifax Courier, March 2012

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