Concert Season 2011-12
Sat 8 October - Wimborne Minster - Haydn: Nelson Mass (Voices for Hospices)
Sun 20 November - St Dunstan, Parkstone - Choral Music from the Orthodox Tradition
Mon 12 December - Noël! Noël! - Canford School
Thu 22 December - Noël! Noël! - Dorchester Corn Exchange
Sat 21 January - Come and Sing! - Bournemouth - Mendelssohn: Elijah
Sat 25 February - Lady St Mary, Wareham - Baroque Favourites
Sat 28 April - St Mary's, Dorchester - Tallis: Spem in Alium
Sat 9 June - Canford School - Gala Concert (40 years of BSC)
Sun 24 June - Blandford Parish Church - Summer Soirée
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Welcome to Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir’s 40th anniversary season.
It was in 1972 that the Western Orchestral Society asked Ken Montgomery to set up a chamber choir of the highest quality to work with the Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Barry Ferguson became its first chorus master and the inaugural concert of Cavalli Missa Concertata and Haydn Te Deum in C took place in Romsey Abbey on June 6th 1972. In its first years the choir worked closely with the orchestra and also with a very young Simon Rattle as well as Rudolph Schwarz and Volker Wangenheim.
BSC has been independent of the orchestra for over 30 years and has flourished under four further musical directors – Nigel Carver, Rupert Jeffcoat, Howard Ionascu and currently David Gostick – all of whom have brought different strengths and repertoire to both choir and audiences.
Amid a huge range of concert venues and programmes performing both a cappella and with a wide variety of instrumental groups and soloists, the choir has enjoyed tours both here and in Europe, taking part in festivals, recordings and singing at notable events. The choir has regularly commissioned work and a recent highlight has been a collaboration with award-winning composer Cecilia McDowall to produce Five Seasons which we will perform again in June 2012 in our Gala Concert (NB Please note the change of venue for this event).
We look forward to seeing you at some of the exciting concerts we have planned to celebrate this special year.
Nigel Wyatt
Chairman, BSC
Critical acclaim for the Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir:
“Excellent singing and a confident, accomplished and beautiful performance. A tremendous first-class programme stupendously and professionally delivered…Your contrasts are stunning.”
Sainsbury Choir of the Year Competition
“A privilege to hear such expertise ... excellent chorus work”
Bournemouth Echo
“Under its conductor David Gostick, the Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir showed exactly why it is regarded as one of the best in south-west England”
Salisbury Journal
A special gala event celebrating our 40th anniversary through a performance of the central work in the choir’s opening concert in June 1972, Haydn’s Te Deum, together with one of the BSC’s most successful and important recent commissions Five Seasons written by Cecilia McDowall.
