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Neil has been our Director of Music since 2006. We have had so very many memorable performances with him that it is becoming difficult to choose our favourites! He is a wonderful interpreter of choral music, making the music engaging and fresh for both the choir and our audiences. You can experience the enjoyment and exhilaration of making music with Neil for yourself by coming to our singing day each January. It will be a sell-out (it always is!) so click on the Singing Day link and apply now. |
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You can download the season brochure.The season's remaining concerts and events are also listed below.
Click here to go to our tickets page. |
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Our next concert is ........
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Saturday 16 November 2024, 7.30pm St George's Church, Stockport SK2 6NU
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Bruckner: mystic and misfit
Mass in E minor and Motets Conductor: Neil Taylor
with: St George’s Symphonic Wind and Brass Motets: Ave Maria Christus factus est Ecce sacredos magnus Locus iste Tota pulchra es Virga Jesse
£16, £10 students/children, group discounts
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Saturday 7 December 2024, 7.00pm St George’s Church, Buxton Road, Stockport
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Carols by Candlelight
Conductor Neil Taylor Piano and Organ Pete Durrant with Bradshaw Hall Primary School Choir Director Vicky Sunderland It’s nearly Christmas, so it must be time for our famous Carols by Candlelight concert! Join St George’s Singers and the children of Bradshaw Hall School for festive carols, mulled wine and mince pies in the grandest and tallest church in Stockport, described by Pevsner as ‘a church on a splendid scale’.
£14, £8 students, £5 under-16s, £3 under 5s including mulled wine, orange juice, mince pies and iced biscuits!
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Saturday 5 April 2025, 7.30pm St George’s Church, Buxton Road, Stockport
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Handel: Alexander’s Feast
Conductor Neil Taylor with: Baroque in the North By 1736 opera was no longer financially lucrative and Handel was in financial straits. The ode Alexander’s Feast marked a turning point in his fortunes. Based on a poem by John Dryden, it describes a banquet held by Alexander the Great in the captured Persian city of Persepolis, during which the musician Timotheus sings and plays his lyre, inciting Alexan-der to burn the city down. With three concertos inserted between the vocal sections, and a final grandiose choral fugue, it was a great success, and persuaded Handel to abandon Italian opera in favour of English choral music. £16, £10 students/children, group discounts
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Saturday 28 June 2025, 7.30pm St George’s Church, Buxton Road, Stockport
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Tours de force: choir & organ masterpieces
Widor and Vierne
Conductor: Neil Taylor
Organ: Graham Eccles This concert is for choral and organ music lovers alike! The 19th century saw a great revival in French organ music, at the forefront of which were Charles-Marie Widor and his pupil Louis Vierne. In addition to their grandiose symphonies and virtuosic organ solos, they also composed masses and sacred motets for choir and organ, illustrating the limitless range of sounds the organ is capable of creating, from loud and brash to mysterious and ethereal. This concert brings together two great organ masses - Widor’s majestic Mass for double choir, and Vierne’s Messe Solennelle - alongside well-known solo organ works and sacred motets from another great French organist, Camille Saint-Sa ns, and Lili Boulanger, a pupil of Vierne who died tragically young at the age of 24.
Tickets: £16, £10 students/children, group discounts |
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