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Date: Saturday 14th June 2025
Time: 19:00
Venue: St Georges Church, High Street, Beckenham, Kent BR3 1AX
Event Information
A selection of Favourite Opera Choruses
Verdi, Donizetti, Bizet, Wagner, Purcell, Leoncavallo, Gilbert & Sullivan
with soprano, mezzo and tenor soloists
Join The Chorale for a summer treat as they journey throughout the opera and operetta world, visiting Paris, Babylon, Seville, the Duchy of Lotharingia, Scotland, Carthage, Imperial China and a village in Calabria on our Grand Tour. In a lighter vein, we travel with Gilbert & Sullivan from Cornwall through the English countryside and up to London via Venice!
The concert will showcase the talents of Richard Pearce at the piano. Richard is a conductor, pianist and organist recording and broadcasting on Radio 3 with the BBC Singers, and is a regular with the Philharmonia and the BBC Symphony Orchestras.
Mark Griffiths – Conductor
Richard Pearce (piano)
Tickets £15 (nave) and £10 (aisle seats) £5 (concessions for anyone in full-time education) via this link. The ticket price includes a free interval drink and a copy of the concert programme.
Tickets also on the door from 6.15pm subject to availability.
Refreshments
The ticket price includes one interval drink.Event Artists
Beckenham Chorale
Beckenham Chorale is a mixed voice choir of about 80 voices founded in 1960 and affiliated to Making Music and the Bromley Arts Council. It gives three concerts a year at St George’s Church Beckenham and rehearses each week broadly through the school year at the St George’s Church Hall.
With a varied repertoire it is best known for our spirited performances of the great and exciting choral works. In recent years, works performed include Bach ‘Magnificat’, Vivaldi ‘Gloria’, Orff ‘Carmina Burana’, Rossini ‘Stabat Mater’, Dvorak ‘Mass in D’, Tippett ‘A Child of our Time’, Handel ‘Messiah’ and Verdi ‘Requiem’.’
The Chorale engages professional soloists and orchestral instrumentalists, with whom we have a long association, to perform with the choir.
Mark Griffiths
Conductor
Mark studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and the Royal College of Music and began his career as a professional singer. He has been Musical Director of the London-based chamber choir Coro since 2003, conducting them to international competitive success, in regular concerts throughout Britain and Europe, and on radio and CD. He also works with large symphonic choruses including the Philharmonia Chorus and the Brighton Festival Chorus.
Mark has a wealth of experience with younger singers, too, as Director of the award-winning Berkshire Youth Choirs and a music mentor for the National Festival of Music for Youth, and is currently Director of Choirs at the Junior Department of Trinity College of Music. He has also directed the Young Conductors’ Course for the Association of British Choral Directors.