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March 2022
Bach – St Matthew Passion
Join us for the performance of this sublime Bach masterpiece! Bradford Festival Choral Society will be accompanied by Baroque in the North on period instruments, joined by our amazing team of soloists and the Bradford Catholic Youth Choir, all led by our inspirational Director of Music, Thomas Leech.
Find out more »November 2022
Handel’s Messiah
Join us for this performance of Handel's glorious oratorio - with a team of outstanding soloists and a wonderful professional orchestra. Handel wrote the whole oratorio in only 24 days - when he finished writing the famous Hallelujah chorus he said 'I thought I saw all of heaven before me'.
Find out more »December 2022
A Christmas Concert: Choir and Brass
Join us for our Christmas Concert - we will have a feast of Christmas joy to fill your ears, and you'll be invited to join in with some of your favourite carols. ...and we can't have a Christmas Concert without some brass - Rothwell Temperance Band will be joining us to really make it feel like Christmas! Join us for our wonderful Christmas Concert!
Find out more »April 2023
Mozart’s Requiem: Highlights
FREE Event Come and listen to highlights of Mozart's final masterpiece performed in the wonderful Cliffe Castle in Keighley. Come and join us!
Find out more »Mozart: Requiem
**EARLY BOOKING RECOMMENDED** TICKETS NOW ON SALE VIA BRADFORD THEATRES WEBSITE Mozart: Requiem Handel: Coronation Anthems with Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra Lorna James - Soprano Hannah Mason - Alto Joseph Doody - Tenor James Creswell - Bass Conductors - Ben Crick & Thomas Leech St George's Hall 29 April 2023 Bradford Festival Choral Society and Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra come together to bring you a sublime evening of classical masterpieces Mozart’s Requiem is an iconic masterpiece - much-loved and justifiably…
Find out more »June 2023
Choral Universe
An amazing - moving - intriguing variety of choral music awaits in our summer concert. Join us to explore a choral universe from ancient medieval pilgrimage songs to the whirling dance rhythms of Reena Esmail's TaReKiTa. We continue our commitment to programming music by women with wonderful music by Fanny Hensel, Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger and Reena Esmail, visit the star-soaked atmosphere of Ēriks Ešenvalds' Only in sleep, Stars and Morten Lauridsen's Sure on this shining night, look ahead to…
Find out more »November 2023
Mass in Blue
Will Todd's Mass in Blue is a modern choral classic - a dynamic, uplifting, and highly popular jazz setting of the Latin mass. The work features driving grooves and blues harmonies, brilliant choral writing and great moments of musical interplay between soprano soloist and choir. Our concert opens with extracts from Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts, before the world premiere of Lillie Harris's setting of Chaucer's 'Now welcome, somer', for choir and saxophone, and a beautiful setting of an Icelandic psalm…
Find out more »December 2023
Carols! Brass! Choir!
Join us for our traditional and hugely popular Christmas Concert - join in with favourite carols for audience, choir and brass, and sit back and enjoy a feast of seasonal music. We are delighted to welcome Rothwell Temperance Band - their stunning contribution to our Christmas concert is one of our season's musical highlights. Carols to join in with this year include: Once in royal David’s city Silent night God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen Hark! the herald…
Find out more »March 2024
Mendelssohn – Elijah
This performance of Mendelssohn's magnificent oratorio is not to be missed! TICKETS ON SALE NOW FROM BRADFORD THEATRES Mendelssohn’s powerful oratorio Elijah raises the roof at St George’s Hall as Bradford Festival Choral Society (shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards), Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra and a glittering array of soloists bring this magnificent music to life. Packed with drama, this enduringly popular work is full of beautiful arias, dramatic recitatives, rousing choruses and colourful orchestration. First performed just ten…
Find out more »April 2024
Free Concert at Cliffe Castle, Keighley
Come and listen to us in Cliffe Castle as part of the Music at the Museum Series. We will be singing selected choruses from Mendelssohn's powerful oratorio Elijah, conducted by our Assistant Musical Director Christopher Pulleyn.
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