Saturday 14. May 2022 at 7.30pm
United Reformed Church, Parkgate Road.
This concert, by a mixed semi-professional group of 16-20 singers, drawn from North Wales, Cheshire and the Wirral, could be performed under the title ‘The Birds, The Bees and other things –a capella concert for Spring’
Tickets £10 (plus 78p booking fee) from TicketSource by clicking on the button below, or without booking fee from the outlets listed at the foot of the page.
The concert will be a collection of early sacred and secular music, madrigals, folk songs, and 20th century classical and popular songs promoted by the Parkgate Society.
Since its inception in 2011, when a group of musically-minded friends came together to sing carols and madrigals in pubs and houses around Denbigh, the Vale of Clwyd Singers has become well established as a much-respected musical set in the North West and North Wales, performing a huge variety of musical repertoire, from 14th century plainchant to 21st century commissioned works.
Many of the choir’s performances are a capella, such as the concert in this year’s Neston Festival, but larger works have involved collaboration with local orchestras, including a performance of Handel’s Dixit Dominus in St Asaph cathedral with the Liverpool Mozart Orchestra in April of this year. Other engagements include the North Wales International Music Festival, the Conwy Festival, MalFest in Cheshire and the Brandenburg Choral Festival in London.
VOCS perform major works by Bach, Handel, Mozart, Faure, Britten, Vaughan Williams and more, together with an ever-expanding catalogue of anthems, madrigals, songs, spirituals, folksongs, rounds – sacred and profane and everything in-between – for the delight of its audiences.
The conductor for this concert is Adrian Griffiths.
For 20 years Adrian was a lay clerk at Liverpool Cathedral; he is a member of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and has frequently sung solos with them, including the bass solo on their recording of Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and has also conducted a sub-choir in a performance, and recording, of Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony.
He has played the Organ with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and given Organ recitals in many Cathedrals in England and Wales, as well as venues in Germany, Austria, Poland, Spain, and the amazing Auditorio de Tenerife.
Adrian is much in demand as an accompanist and has most recently played for The Keble Choir, Chester Music Society and St. Nicholas Singers in Stockholm, Krakow, Salzburg and Ghent.
Tickets for this concert (£10) may be purchased by cash or cheque payable to The Parkgate Society from:
Paisley Grey, 29 High Street, Neston,
Blue Bicycle, 10 The Cross, Neston,
Nicholls Ice Cream, The Parade, Parkgate,
Mozkitos Coffee House, Coastguard Lane, Parkgate.
Or directly from the Society (0151) 336 4461 or 07555 583611.
This concert is promoted and sponsored by the Parkgate Society.