Forthcoming Concerts:
Words and Music for Good Friday
Friday 18 April 2025, 6pm
St Patrick's Church, Patterdale
With Mike Town, organ
Concert Archive
Choral Evening
Sunday 25 August 2024, 4pm
St Bees Priory
Music for a Summer Evening
Tuesday 16 July 2024, 7.30pm
Hawkshead Parish Church
Music by Elgar, Pearsall, Gershwin
and Whitacre
Summer Serenade
Sunday 2 June 2024, 3.30pm
Holy Trinity Church, Millom
Good Friday, 29 March 2024
Words and Music for Good Friday including the Tallis Lamentations
St Patrick's Patterdale, 6pm
Free entry
Sunday 7 January 2024, 4pm
Music and Readings for Epiphany
St Oswald's Church, Ravenstonedale
Music by Lassus, Poulenc, Dove and Bach
Sunday 18 June 2023, 4pm
Evensong at Hawkshead Parish Church
Sunday 23 April 2023, 4pm
Canny Cumbria
A concert of music by Cumbrian composers and others
St John's Church, Levens Village
Tickets available on the door
Friday 7 April 2023
Words and Music for Good Friday inspired by the Eastern Orthodox Church
St Patrick's Patterdale
6pm
Saturday 5 November 2022
Victoria Requiem
With the Brampton Consort
St Martin's Brampton
Sunday 28 August 2022
10am Eucharist
6.30pm Evensong
Lancaster Priory
Friday 15 April 2022
Words and Music for Good Friday
Patterdale Church, 6pm
Sunday 1 December 2019, 6.30pm
Advent Carol Service
Kirkby Stephen Parish Church
Sunday 29 September, 3pm
I Sing of a Maiden
Choral music for the Virgin Mary
from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
St Peter’s Church, Heversham
(In aid of the renovation fund for St John’s Levens)
Sunday 16 June 2019 at 3pm
From medieval markets to contemporary spice!
Play with your food!
A concert of all things food-related
A choral celebration of the granting of the Trinity-tide market charter to Millom in 1251
Holy Trinity Church Millom
Words and Music for Good Friday
Friday 19 April, 6pm
St Patrick's Church, Patterdale
Music by Purcell, Lassus, Wesley, Blow and Schütz
I Sing of a Maiden
Sunday 24th March, 3pm
Music for the Annunciation from the Middle Ages to the present day,
including works by Duruflé, Grieg, Praetorius and Bruckner
St Michael’s Church, Shap
War and Peace
Saturday 10 November, 7.30pm
Music for voices and instruments to commemorate the Armistice
Includes works by Handel, Carissimi, Monteverdi, Josquin and Palestrina
With Katharine May, harpsichord and Michael Sanderson and Carol Klemperer violins.
Kirkby Stephen Parish Church, 7.30pm
Proceeds to the British Legion
Dainty Fine Byrd
A concert of all things bird and Byrd related!
Sunday 16 September 2018, 5pm
St John's Church Levens
In aid of the St John's Maintenance Fund
Evensong at Martindale Old Church
Sunday 26 August 2018, 5.30pm
Dainty Fine Byrd
A concert of all things Byrd and bird related!
Muncaster Castle, Sunday 13 May 2018, 5pm
Tickets include all day access to the castle, grounds and bird flying shows and exclusive access to the gardens after the concert
A service of music and readings for Good Friday
including music by Victoria, Mawby, Wood and a work by local composer Tamsin Jones
With Mike Town, organ
Friday 30 March 2018
St Patrick's Church, Patterdale, 6pm
Sunday 4 February 2018, 4pm
Sacred Feast
With the Brampton Consort
Music for Communion including work by Byrd, Tallis, Messiaen and Carlisle-composer Jonathan Millican
Chapel of Austin Friars School, Carlisle
Saturday 2 September 2017, 6pm
Evensong for St Cuthbert
St Cuthbert's Church, Beltingham
In an English Country Garden
A programme of music inspired by gardens and flowers by composers from Lassus to Finzi.
Wednesday 9 August 2017, St Thomas Kendal, 9.45pm
This concert is part of Lake District Summer Music
Music for a Summer Garden
A programme of music inspired by gardens and flowers
Sunday 18 June, 2017 Askham Church, 5pm
A service of music and readings for Good Friday
including music by Victoria, Schütz and Morales
With Mike Town, organ
Friday 14 April 2017
St Patrick's Church, Patterdale, 6pm
Sunday 8 January 2017
Epiphany Carol Service
Music and Readings for Epiphany
Egremont Parish church, 3pm
with Christopher Lamb, organ
Sunday 28 August 2016
Evensong, Martindale Old Church
Thursday 11 August 2016, 9.45pm
Late night concert as part of Lake District Summer Music
Music for Compline
Saturday 11 June 2016
Light and Day: Music for the Evening
Music for Vespers and Compline by composers including Tallis, Byrd, White and Sheppard
Barton Church, Tirril, 7.30pm
Saturday 30 April 2016, 7.30pm
Music by Purcell and Schütz
including My Heart is Inditing
With the Brampton Consort and Max Smith, organ
Kirkby Stephen Parish Church
£510 was raised for the Cumbria Flood appeal
Friday 25 March, 6pm
Words and Music for Good Friday
St Patrick's Church, Patterdale
6pm, Free Entry
Sunday 15 November 2015, 3pm
Purcell at the Priory
With the Brampton Consort and Max Smith, chamber organ
works by Purcell and Schütz including My Heart is Inditing
Lanercost Priory
Friday 16 October, 2015
Bee-keepers Ball
Greystoke Castle
Tuesday 6 October 2015, 12.45pm
Songs of Joy, Songs of Love, Songs of Lamentation
Hymns and psalms from the time of Elizabeth I & James I,
by Orlando Gibbons and John Dowland
Musiclive@lunchtime
Carlisle Cathedral
Sunday 30 August, 5.30pm
Evensong, Martindale Old Church
Saturday 11 July 2015, 7.30pm
Sheppard and his Sheep
5th Anniversary Concert
Ings Church
as part of the Mary Wakefield Festival
Friday 3 April 2015, 6pm
Words and Music for Good Friday
St Patrick's Patterdale
Free entry
Saturday 20 December 2014
Christmas Concert at Hutton-in-the-Forest
(by kind permission of Lord and Lady Inglewood)
Britten's Ceremony of Carols with harp and songs and carols for the season
Saturday 8 November 2014
Saints and Souls:
A matter of life and death
Music by Byrd, Tallis, Taverner and Marenzio
St Mary's Church Wreay
Saturday 9 August 2014
Workshop with Stile Antico
As part of Lake District Summer Music
Carver Church, Windermere
Sunday 10 August 2014
Evensong at Grasmere Church
Sunday 25 May 2014
Free Classical Concert at Rheged
One of the new series of free lunchtime concerts
Starter of madrigals, main course of English part-songs and dessert of popular songs
Tuesday 29 April 2014
Musiclive@lunchtime
English Music from Cornysh to Purcell
Carlisle Cathedral
Friday 18 April 2014
Words and Music for Good Friday
With Mike Town, Organ
Patterdale Church
Saturday 21 December 2013
A Christmas celebration of vocal music, carols and readings
Brigham Methodist Chapel
Voices and Viols:
Music and Merriment for a Tudor Hall
Greystoke Castle: Sunday 10 November 2013
Levens Hall: Monday 18 November 2013
(in aid of Springfield House, Kendal)
Sunday 30 June 2013
A Baroque Journey:
Music from Gabrieli to Handel
With staff and students of Giggleswick School
Giggleswick School Chapel
29 March 2013
Words and Music for Good Friday
With Mike Town, Organ
St Patrick's Patterdale
30 November 2012
A Vocal ADVENTure
SASRA Music and Arts in Egremont
Egremont Parish Church
22 September 2012
Concert for the Friends of Wreay Church
7 July 2012
Kendal Parish Church
Shared concert with the children of the abcd North West Honour Choir
6 April 2012
Service of Tenebrae for Good Friday
Music for Passiontide including Tallis, Byrd, Barber and Blow
With Mike Town, Organ
St Patrick's Patterdale
Sunday 26 February 2012
Bless this House
Music by Catholic Composers from Tudor and Stuart England
With Andrew Leavett, Chamber Organ
Greystoke Castle
6 July 2011
The Italian Job
A mini programme of works from 16th- and 17th-century Italy
Crosthwaite Parish Church, Keswick
22 April 2011
Words and Music for Good Friday
St Patrick's Church, Patterdale
30 April 2011
A Right Royal Renaissance
A Marriage of Spanish and English Music ~music of the Tudor Court and the world premiere performance since the 17th century of Missa ut re mi fa so la by Esquivel
St Mark's Church, Natland
23 October 2010
Reformation and Restoration
St Patrick's Patterdale
3 July 2010
Music by Thomas
Cartmel Priory
9 January 2010
Beginnings
St Oswald's Church Grasmere
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