ORGAN RECITALS (CONTINUED) 1 Sep NIGEL ALLCOAT London 8 Sep SHEAN BOWERS Bath Abbey 15 Sep HUW WILLIAMS Bath Abbey 22 Sep JULIAN LARKIN Suffolk 29 Sep SACHIN GUNGA Portsmouth Cathedral ORGAN RECITALS 6 Oct SHEAN BOWERS Bath Abbey 13 Oct GARY DESMOND Bath Abbey 20 Oct JONATHAN PILGRIM Brecon Cathedral SATURDAYS AT 5.00pm 28 Oct GEORGE BEVAN Monkton Combe, Bath 9 May JEREMY COLE Wells Cathedral Admission free; suggested donation £5 6 Jun SHEAN BOWERS Bath Abbey 11 Jul HUW WILLIAMS Bath Abbey 12 Sep SIMON BELL Tewkesbury Abbey CHORAL EVENSONG 3 Oct JONATHAN HOPE Gloucester Cathedral Every Sunday at 3.00pm TUESDAYS AT 1.00pm Thursdays at 5.30pm during term time Some Fridays and Saturdays at 5.30pm 5 May HUW WILLIAMS Bath Abbey throughout the year (please check website) 12 May SHEAN BOWERS Bath Abbey 19 May RICHARD WALKER St Chad’s, Shrewsbury Choral Evensong takes place during the week and 26 May JEFF HOWARD Cardiff on Sundays. Take time to step out of the ‘busyness’ of daily life and join us for 45 minutes. Words, 2 Jun STEPHEN HARGREAVES Liverpool silence and music combine in this beautiful space to 9 Jun JONATHAN PRICE Christ Church, Bristol City inspire and to calm. 23 Jun DAVID HARDIES Birmingham Cathedral During term-time these services are sung by the 30 Jun SAMUEL ALI Royal College of Music, London Abbey’s choirs of Girls and Lay-clerks, or Boys and Lay-clerks. During the holidays these services may 7 Jul WILLIAM FOX St Paul’s Cathedral, London be sung by visiting choirs. 14 Jul BEN GIDDENS Reading 21 Jul GARY DESMOND Bath Abbey 28 Jul PETER KING Exeter Bath Abbey Music 2020 4 Aug JEAN RENE ANDRE Rennes Cathedral, Brittany 11 Aug HENRIK BO HANSEN Vangede Church, Copenhagen 18 Aug JONATHAN BIELBY Wakefield 25 Aug KAI KRAKENBURG Hussum Cathedral, Germany www.bathabbey.org Summer Concert (St Peter’s Day) 27 June, 7.00pm The combined Abbey Choirs celebrate the end of the academic year and our patronal feast day St Peter. Highlights include Swayne (Magnificat), Gjelo (Ubi caritas), MacMillan (A child’s prayer) and Byrd (Laudibus in sanctis) Tickets: £10 / Restricted view £7 Remembrance Concert 7 November, 7pm FRIDAY FOOTPRINT CONCERTS Fauré’s Requiem and Howells’ Requiem performed by the Abbey choirs of Boys, Girls 6.30pm - 7.30pm on Fridays below and Lay-clerks. This season of Remembrance Join us for a series of Friday choral concerts is commemorated with atmospheric and beautiful music. Fauré’s Requiem is heartfelt featuring school choirs, the Abbey’s youngest ABBEY CHOIR CONCERTS and comforting whilst Howells’ unaccompanied choir, Melody Makers, and the Aquae Sulis setting, written in memory of his 9 year-old Chorale. The concerts will include music by son, Michael, uses Latin and English texts and is composers such as Britten, Dove, Muhly and many Stainer’s Crucifixion powerful and poignant. more. The Aquae Sulis Chorale will sing some well 4 April, 7.30pm Tickets: £10 / Restricted view £7 known and much loved favourites such as Parry’s I was Glad and Esenvalds’ magical work Only in Featuring the Abbey Boys and Lay-clerks, this Sleep, plus much more. popular Victorian work has been sung each Good Friday in the past few years to a full Abbey. There Tickets available from the Bath Box Office: – Abbey Boys and Girls Choirs are hymns such as All for Jesus and Cross of Jesus 01225 463362 • 6 March for the audience to join in. An expressive and www.bathboxoffice.org • 1 May – Kingswood Prep School: The intimate portrayal of Jesus’s crucifixion and fitting Summerhill Singers as we enter Passiontide. • 15 May – The Melody Makers of Bath Abbey Tickets: £10 / Restricted view £7 • 5 June – Widcombe & Weston All Saints Primary Schools Handel’s Messiah • 3 July – The Aquae Sulis Chorale 26 April, 7.00pm All money raised will go to the Abbey’s Footprint TheWORSHIP Abbey Girls and Lay-clerks choirs are joined by Project, and will be doubled by the Brownsword the excellent baroque instrumentalists Canzona to Charitable Foundation. perform this masterpiece. Soloists are drawn from the choir, as in the first performance in Dublin in Tickets are available from the Bath Box Office: 1742 (which was also performed after Easter). The glorious Hallelujah chorus resounds the triumph of £10 Adult, £5 Child/Concessions the resurrection. 01225 463362 Tickets: £15 / Restricted view £8 www.bathboxoffice.org.