Recent programmes

14 June 2025 - Chapel Royal Brighton
Stephen Flaherty: Your Daddy’s Son (Ragtime)
Kurt Weill: My Ship; Just one life to live (Lady in the dark)
Jerry Bock: Far from the home I love (Fiddler on the roof)
Alexander Borodin: And this is my beloved (Kismet)
Sherrie Spinks (soprano), Katy Friese-Green (piano)

Beethoven: Sonata in G major op. 79 movt. 1 Presto alla tedesca
Scriabin: Prelude No.5 Op.11
Mana-Zucca: The Zouaves' Drill Op.68
Sarah Henderson-Sharon (piano)

Arditi: IL Bacio
Donizetti: Me voglio fa 'na casa
Bellini: IL fervido desiderio
Valeria Guidotti & Zhanna Kemp

Mozart Quintet in E flat major
Stephen Engelhard (piano), Alex Pearson (oboe), Stella Knight (clarinet), Natasha Witts (horn), Sam Christie (bassoon)

12 April 2025 - Chapel Royal Brighton
Ruperto Chapi: Mi tio se figura (El Rey que rabio)
Pablo Sorozabal: No puede Ser (La Tabarera del puerto)
Sebastian Yradier: La Paloma
Joaquin Rodrigo: En Aranjuez mi amor (Concierto de Aranjuez)
Joaquin Valverde: Clavelitos
Jan King (voice), Celia Vince (piano), Simon Hopkins (guitar)

Fauré: Nocturne No.6
Rachmaninov: Etude-tableau Op.39 No.8
Alex Sinclair (piano)

Drawing Room Ballads - Songs of Love and Sentiment.
Lilian Ray/Leonard Cooke The Sunshine of Your Smile
Elgar/Arthur L Salmon Pleading
Wilfred Sanderson/Dena Tempest As I Sit Here
Eric Coates/Fredd Weatherly The Green Hills 0' Somerset
Rod Edmunds (tenor) with Zhanna Kemp (piano)

08 March 2025 - Chapel Royal Brighton
Herman Beeftink: Moon River; Twilight; Ave Maria; Celtic Forest
Helen Doble & Elysium Ensemble Quartet

Armstrong Gibbs: The Lamb and the Dove
John Ireland: Skylark and Nightingale
Bax: White Peace; Shieling Song.
Head: A blackbird singing; My beloved
Carol-Anne Grainger & Kevin Allen

Madrigals
Sherrie Spinks, Katy Friese Green, Bob Ahern, Simon Madge

Bach: Flute Sonata E flat BWV 1031
Karen Rash, Hugh O'Neal

08 February 2025 - Chapel Royal Brighton
The annual Student Concert.

CPE Bach: Solfeggietto
Gregory Zubkov (piano)

Poulenc: Novelette in E minor
Chopin: Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. posth.
Michael Wang (piano)

Massenet: Meditation from Thaïs
Rachmaninov: Moment musical in E minor, Op.16 No.4
Shostakovich: Selection from Five Pieces for 2 Violins and Piano
Richard & Edward Sherbourne (violins) & Ivan Hladushevskyi (piano)

Chopin: Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante
Nelly Zhang (piano)

11 January 2025 - Chapel Royal Brighton
Mozart: Porgi, Amor from The Marriage of Figaro
Handel: Heart, the seat of soft Delight - Acis and Galatea
Frank Wildhorn: When I Look at You -The Scarlet Pimpernel
Massenet: Va, laisse couler mes larmes - Werther
Handel: Cara Sposa - Rinaldo all on a theme of 'lost love'
Pamela Cross & Celia Vince

Lalo: Cello concerto D Minor (1st movement)
Ben Alexander + Hugh O'Neal

Schumann Dichterliebe (selected songs)
Simon Madge & Stephen Engelhard

14 December 2024 - Chapel Royal Brighton
Finzi Songs (settings of Hardy)
Alan Ford (baritone) Celia Vince (piano)

G B Pergolesi: Concerto in G major for flute and keyboard
Karen Rash + Hugh O'Neal

Michael Head - The Little Road to Bethlehem
Peter Warlock - The First Mercy
Edmund Rubbra - A Hymn to the Virgin
Reger - Wiegenlied
anon, arr. Samuel Liddle - An Old French Carol
Sue Mileham and Kevin Allen