New Elizabethan Singers and Broadoak Choir

On April 9 at 7pm at St Mary's Church Bridport, the New Elizabethan Singers and the Broadoak Choir will combine to perform two choral pieces written by local composers.

They go 'on tour' the next day, April 10th to repeat the performance in St Bartholomew's Church Crewkerne at 3.30pm.

Matt Kingston (pen-name Matthew Coleridge) has directed the NES since 2011. His Requiem integrates broad lush vocal harmonies with exhilarating organ, string and percussion accompaniments and solo passages. 'It was inspired', Matt says, 'by the joy of the arrival of my first child and the beauty of the Dorset countryside'. His Requiem premiered in 2015 and has received numerous, acclaimed performances in the UK, the US and Europe.

NES bass Chris Reynolds has lived and worked in the area for 30 years. With roots in folk and jazz, he has also written several liturgical pieces for the small 'a cappella' Broadoak Choir. His 2019 choral cantata Three Trees, is a mystical, moving meditation on crucifixion and redemption; it reflects on the mystery and magic of real trees and the beauty of creation; and how close humankind is to destroying it.

Tickets, £12 (under 18s free) are available from Goadsby in Bridport.

The concert in Crewkerne is free to all, with a retiring collection.

Find more information here.