An absolutely wonderful and highly enjoyable performance, to a capacity audience.

Mass in G Minor plus works by Holst, Smyth, Clarke and Imogen Holst.

A feast of popular favourites from 500 years of great choral music, performed with the magnificent organ of St Barnabas Church, Dulwich Village. The programme included Handel’s Zadok the Priest and Hallelujah Chorus, Elgar’s Give unto the Lord, Parry’s I Was Glad and works by Purcell, Stainer and Vaughan Williams.

A celebration of Shakespeare and Cervantes. Directed by Aidan Oliver, the choir were joined by baritone Gareth Brynmor John and pianist Leanne Singh-Levett.

From English country garden to balmy Venice evening, Dulwich Choral Society’s June 2015 Concert presented a summery collection of romance, heartbreak and joy!

Rodney Clarke (baritone) performed two solo cycles and was joined by the choir to sing Grainger’s Shallow Brown. Piano accompaniment was by David Elwin and Richard Pearce and the concert was conducted by DCS Musical Director Aidan Oliver.

The 2014 summer concert took inspiration from the famous ‘White Nights’ Festival in St Petersburg, where for two months at the height of summer the sun never fully sets and the city is filled with a spectacular extravaganza of the arts.

The programme included Russian Orthodox sacred music, Opera choruses by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky & Borodin and Russian folksong arrangements.

Jonathan Dove’s thrilling masterpiece formed the centerpiece of this midsummer journey through the seasons. Interwoven with John Rutter’s exquisite folksong arrangements and the affecting words of Thomas Hardy, this beguiling sequence was narrated by special guest Julian Ovenden.

An evening of classic hits from Oklahoma, South Pacific, West Side Story and Guys and Dolls, and revelled in the musical genius of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, and Leonard Bernstein. We were joined by soloists Pamela Hay (soprano) and Alastair Brookshaw (tenor).

David Elwin accompanied us on the piano and the performance was conducted by DCS Musical Director, Aidan Oliver.

Performed at St Stephen’s Church, South Dulwich, with Spanish-style refreshments served in the interval.

Habanera and March of the Toreadors from Bizet’s Carmen
Masterpieces by Victoria, Guerrero and Padilla
Elgar – Spanish Serenade
Javier Busto – Ave Maria
Ravel – Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Shostakovich – Spanish Songs

with Gerard Collett, baritone, and David Elwin, piano.

A sequence of words and music ranging through opera, partsongs, sacred music and poetry on the theme of Night, with the brilliant British soprano solist Elisabeth Meister.

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A selection of music connected to Shakespeare at All Saints, including works by Morley, Verdi, Vaughan Williams, Berlioz and Shearing.

The choir sang a wonderful programme with additional performances from the Cake Appreciation Society Barbershop Group and the hauntingly beautiful sounds of the Zabava Choir.  It was thrilling to share such personal Christmas cheer withwith everyone in person after so long.

Our first live concert after the lockdown restrictions were lifted.

Performed in German, with a period-instrument orchestra and an outstanding line-up of soloists, in Cadogan Hall. This performance was the culmination of the choir’s major Bach cycle under the direction of Aidan Oliver, and follows recent sell-out performances of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Handel’s Messiah at the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich.

DCS gave the First Performance of Jonathan Dove’s Arion and the Dolphin along with Carl Orff’s ever popular Carmina Burana. The soloists were Fflur Wyn (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Grant Doyle (baritone) with James Allen’s Girls’ School Choir and David Elwin & Iain Farrington on piano.

The soloists were Camilla Roberts (soprano), Rowan Hellier (mezzo soprano), Adrian Dwyer (tenor) and David Soar (bass), with David Elwin (piano) and Richard Pearce (harmonium).

DCS performed an evening of music by British composers:

     Elgar – Imperial March
     Stanford – Songs of the Fleet
     Walton – Two pieces from Henry V
     Parry – The Pied Piper of Hamelin and I was glad

The choir was joined by soloists Grant Doyle (baritone) and Timothy Robinson (tenor). The Dulwich Festival Orchestra was led by Charles Mutter and the performance conducted by DCS Musical Director, Aidan Oliver.

DCS performed Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, with soloists Anita Watson and Gerard Collett, and the Dulwich Festival Orchestra led by Lennox Mackenzie.

Anita Watson also performed Strauss’ Four Last Songs.

Bach's masterpiece performed in Christopher Wren’s sensational chapel at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich with with soloists Julia Doyle (soprano) Cecilia Osmond (soprano) Tim Mead (countertenor) Andrew Tortise (tenor) George Humphreys (bass) and leading period instrument orchestra Sinfonia Britannica, led by Adrian Butterfield.

Performed at St John’s Church, Goose Green, East Dulwich with a fabulous team of international soloists:

Martene Grimson (soprano), Catherine Hopper (mezzo soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Adrian Dwyer (tenor), and Robert Winslade Anderson (bass). 

With period-instrument ensemble Sinfonia Britannica led by Adrian Butterfield, one of the UK’s leading baroque violinists.

Bach’s Passiontide masterpiece with period instruments and an outstanding line-up of international soloists:

Dame Emma Kirkby (soprano)
James Bowman (countertenor)
Thomas Walker – Evangelist
Lukas Jakobski – Christus
Jonathan Brown – Pilate

Mendelssohn’s Elijah at St Barnabas, Dulwich Village, with soloists:

Vir Singh-Mitter (Treble)
Georgia Ginsberg (Soprano)
Anne-Marie Gibbons (Mezzo-soprano)
Peter Davoren (Tenor)
Rodney Clarke (Bass-Baritone)

Elgar, Brahms, Fauré, Mozart, Lysenko, Verdi, Saint-Saëns, Verdi and more.

Beethoven's Mass In C plus works by Mendelssohn and Haydn.

The soloists were Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor) and David Stout (bass) with the Dulwich Festival Orchestra led by Lennox Mackenzie. Performed at All Saints, West Dulwich.

Performed at the Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich with with soloists Fflur Wyn (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Gareth Treseder (tenor) and Tim Dickinson (bass) with period instrument orchestra Sinfonia Britannica, led by Alison Bury.

Performed in in Christopher Wren’s chapel at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich with with soloists Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano) Catherine Backhouse (mezzo soprano) Andrew Tortise (tenor) Jonathan Brown (bass) and period instrument orchestra Sinfonia Britannica led by Rodolfo Richter.

DCS performed Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Duruflé’s Requiem with soloists Ruby Hughes (soprano), Frances Bourne (mezzo soprano), Ronan Busfield (tenor) and Edward Grint (bass). The Dulwich Festival Orchestra was led by Lennox Mackenzie, with Stephen Disley on organ.

Dulwich Festival Orchestra also performed Elgar’s Sospiri. 

DCS were joined by soloists Ruby Hughes (soprano) Catherine Backhouse (mezzo soprano) Jeremy Budd (tenor) and Thomas Faulkner (bass) to perform:

Haydn – Te Deum in C for Empress Marie Therese
Schubert – Mass in G
Mozart – Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K339

DCS performed a programme at All Saints which included:

Poulenc – Gloria
Finzi – In Terra Pax
Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols

As Lucas (tenor), we welcomed back Andrew Staples. Jane (soprano) was sung by Mary Bevan, and Simon (bass) by Charles Rice.

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Performed at St John the Evangelist, Goose Green.

St Nicolas and other works by Benjamin Britten, and works by Gustav Holst, in conjunction with The Holst Chamber Choir (James Allen’s Girls School) under their conductor, Pat Williams, and featuring soloist Andrew Staples (tenor).

Orff’s Carmina Burana and Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year at St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood, in conjunction with the Choristers of St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, and with soloists Charlotte Mobbs (soprano), Stephen Wallace (countertenor) and Adam Green (baritone).