Directed by Frikki Walker and accompanied by Richard Walmsley, the music includes pieces by William Smith of Durham, Daniel Purcell, Maurice Greene, William Walton, and Philip Stopford.
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Monday, 2 February 2015
Haddington 2015
After a lovely candlelit Epiphany Carol Service in Greyfriars Kirk, we now loook forward to continuing our 2015 season with a return visit to the lovely historic St Mary's Parish Church in Haddington, a few miles east of Edinburgh, on Saturday 7th March when we will sing Choral Evensong there at 4pm.
Directed by Frikki Walker and accompanied by Richard Walmsley, the music includes pieces by William Smith of Durham, Daniel Purcell, Maurice Greene, William Walton, and Philip Stopford.
Directed by Frikki Walker and accompanied by Richard Walmsley, the music includes pieces by William Smith of Durham, Daniel Purcell, Maurice Greene, William Walton, and Philip Stopford.
Sunday, 10 August 2014
2015 season announced
The dates and venues for our 2015 season have just been announced to the choir at our residential rehearsal weekend at Stirling University, so the wider world can now know!
All of our future events are listed below, including those still to come in the second half of our 2014 season:
Saturday 6th September 2014
Choral Evensong at 4pm
St Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, High St, Dundee
Saturday 4th October 2014
Choral Evensong at 4pm
St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh
Saturday 1st November 2014
Choral Evensong at 4pm
St Ninian's Episcopal Cathedral, Perth
Saturday 17th January 2015
Epiphany Carol Service by Candlelight at 4pm
Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
Saturday 7th March 2015
Choral Evensong at 4pm
St Mary's Parish Church, Haddington
Saturday 9th May 2015
Choral Evensong at 4pm
St Margaret's former Episcopal Church, Braemar, Royal Deeside
Having been recently saved from a perilous condition, St Margaret's is now becoming the base for all sorts of musical events in the beautiful village of Braemar which is just along from Balmoral Castle, the home of Her Majesty the Queen (Royal Patron of the Royal School of Church Music). Although not operating as a church now, the team looking after the building agree with us that this would be a nice opportunity to hark back to former times whilst still firmly looking forward to what the future holds for the building.
Saturday 6th June 2015
RSCM Scotland Triennial Festival
Directed by Frikki Walker, accompanied by Richard Walmsley
St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow
Friday 7th to Sunday 9th August 2015
Annual residential rehearsal weekend
This does not involve any public performance or access
Saturday 5th September 2015
Choral Evensong at 4pm
St John's Episcopal Cathedral, Oban
This will be a first visit to Oban for the choir, and we're very much looking forward to visiting this glorious part of Scotland where the RSCM is very much supported.
Saturday 3rd October 2015
Choral Evensong at 4pm
St Ninian's Episcopal Cathedral, Perth
*NB for reasons outwith our control this is a different venue to that originally advertised here
Saturday 14th November 2015
Choral Evensong at 4pm
Old Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh
This will be a joint service with Young Scottish Voices
All of our future events are listed below, including those still to come in the second half of our 2014 season:
Saturday 6th September 2014
Choral Evensong at 4pm
St Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, High St, Dundee
Saturday 4th October 2014
Choral Evensong at 4pm
St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh
Saturday 1st November 2014
Choral Evensong at 4pm
St Ninian's Episcopal Cathedral, Perth
Saturday 17th January 2015
Epiphany Carol Service by Candlelight at 4pm
Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
Saturday 7th March 2015
Choral Evensong at 4pm
St Mary's Parish Church, Haddington
Saturday 9th May 2015
Choral Evensong at 4pm
St Margaret's former Episcopal Church, Braemar, Royal Deeside
Having been recently saved from a perilous condition, St Margaret's is now becoming the base for all sorts of musical events in the beautiful village of Braemar which is just along from Balmoral Castle, the home of Her Majesty the Queen (Royal Patron of the Royal School of Church Music). Although not operating as a church now, the team looking after the building agree with us that this would be a nice opportunity to hark back to former times whilst still firmly looking forward to what the future holds for the building.
Saturday 6th June 2015
RSCM Scotland Triennial Festival
Directed by Frikki Walker, accompanied by Richard Walmsley
St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow
Friday 7th to Sunday 9th August 2015
Annual residential rehearsal weekend
This does not involve any public performance or access
Saturday 5th September 2015
Choral Evensong at 4pm
St John's Episcopal Cathedral, Oban
This will be a first visit to Oban for the choir, and we're very much looking forward to visiting this glorious part of Scotland where the RSCM is very much supported.
Saturday 3rd October 2015
Choral Evensong at 4pm
St Ninian's Episcopal Cathedral, Perth
*NB for reasons outwith our control this is a different venue to that originally advertised here
Saturday 14th November 2015
Choral Evensong at 4pm
Old Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh
This will be a joint service with Young Scottish Voices
Sunday, 11 November 2012
Hadley Court Singers job vacancy
One of our choir members, who sings in the choir concerned, has asked that the following job advert is placed here, and we're happy to oblige. Contact them through their website if interested or for further information.
WANTED: MUSICAL DIRECTOR, HADLEY COURT SINGERS, HADDINGTON, EAST LOTHIAN
The Hadley Court Singers is an SATB choir of around 35 to 40 singers based in Haddington, East Lothian. We perform regularly three times a year and in the past have sung at special events throughout Scotland. Although presently non-auditioning we can sing to a high standard, and enjoy exploring a wide range of musical styles from early classical to more challenging modern works.
Our present Musical Director, Simon Nieminski, is, sadly, leaving us at the end of 2012 after 8 1/2 years of directing the choir. We are looking for someone willing to make a long term commitment to Hadley Court Singers and take us forward with energy, enthusiasm and originality of approach!
WANTED: MUSICAL DIRECTOR, HADLEY COURT SINGERS, HADDINGTON, EAST LOTHIAN
The Hadley Court Singers is an SATB choir of around 35 to 40 singers based in Haddington, East Lothian. We perform regularly three times a year and in the past have sung at special events throughout Scotland. Although presently non-auditioning we can sing to a high standard, and enjoy exploring a wide range of musical styles from early classical to more challenging modern works.
Our present Musical Director, Simon Nieminski, is, sadly, leaving us at the end of 2012 after 8 1/2 years of directing the choir. We are looking for someone willing to make a long term commitment to Hadley Court Singers and take us forward with energy, enthusiasm and originality of approach!
Friday, 20 May 2011
Devotional service of music and readings for Eastertide
At 4pm in St Mary's Parish Church in Haddington, a Devotional Sequence of Music and Readings for Easter-tide will be performed by RSCM Scottish Voices.
Following the service all are invited to join us for a refreshment at a local pub, probably the Tyneside Tavern just along the road.
Following the service all are invited to join us for a refreshment at a local pub, probably the Tyneside Tavern just along the road.
Wednesday, 20 April 2011
Easter Sequence
- Gaudete Omnes – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
- O God thou art my God - Henry Purcell
- Surgens Jesus - Peter Philips
- Morning Glory, starlit sky - Barry Rose
- O Sons and Daughters Let us Sing – Henry Walford Davies
- Hymn: This Joyful Eastertide – Charles Wood
- Hymn: Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem [tune: St Fulbert]
- Psalm: The Easter Anthems
Sunday, 24 October 2010
2011 season is announced
The 2011 season for RSCM Scottish Voices has now been finalised, and it's going to be a cracking year!
We kick off on Saturday January 22nd with a visit to the historic Dunfermline Abbey. The photo below is by Paul McIlroy
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| Dunfermline Abbey |
On Saturday 5th March we pay a welcome return visit to Dunblane Cathedral. The photo of Dunblane Cathedral is by Kevin Rae.
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| Dunblane Cathedral |
After our last visit in January 2009 which was slightly marred by appalling blizzard conditions causing numerous choristers not to make it, on Saturday 21st May we return to St Mary's Parish Church in Haddington where although we hope to get better weather we couldn't hope for a better welcome than we received last time. The photo of St Mary's Church is by kind permission of RSCM Scottish Voices choir member gordonrasmith.
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| St Mary's Haddington |
Coinciding with a planned weekend of events in the city held by RSCM Scotland, on Saturday 18th June the choir will be visiting Aberdeen for the first time, singing Choral Evensong in St Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral at 4pm. The image below is from their own Website.
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| St Andrews Cathedral, Aberdeen |
From Friday 5th to Sunday 7th August our 2011 residential rehearsal weekend will again be in the delightful surroundings of Strathallan School, Forgandenny, Perthshire.
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| Strathallan School |
On Saturday 17th September St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow will be where we sing Choral Evensong at 4pm. The photo of St Mary's Cathedral is by Finlay McWalter.
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| St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow |
To round off the year, on Saturday 5th November the choir will be back in Glasgow, this time in the glorious St Aloysius Roman Catholic Church in Rose St, where we will be singing in their 5.45pm Mass. This will be the first time RSCM Scottish Voices has taken part in a Roman Catholic service, but it certainly won't be the last. The photo of St Aloysius, which shows the stunning interior, is by Stephen Lipton, who happens to be a singer who has conducted his own group, Scottish Chorale, in St Aloysius a few years ago.
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| St Aloysius |
Individual posts containing the music list and finalised times and directions will be made here nearer each service, and of course the RSCM Scotland site will also have details.
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Haddington report
The choir continues to develop and grow in corporate ability, as yesterday's service in Haddington showed.
There were a lot of call offs, partly due to the weather and partly for other reasons, so a smaller choir than usual, consisting of nine sopranos, three altos, four tenors, and six basses, turned up at the incredibly beautiful and historic St Mary's Parish Church at 10am to be fed tea, coffee and biscuits by the the very friendly ladies of the parish. We then walked a few hundred yards to the Trinity Centre, the church hall of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, where we rehearsed in the morning to allow our organist to rehearse on the splendid looking organ in St Mary's church. As it happened, we didn't need to decamp, because our regular organist Richard Walmsley couldn't make it so at very short notice Matthew Beetschen, organist of Dunblane Cathedral and chair of the RSCM Scotland committee, stepped ably into the breach but he didn't arrive until lunchtime so we could have rehearsed in the church after all. Not to worry.
The music was very slightly different to that advertised in my previous post, and consisted of:
Hymn: O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness (tune: Was Lebet)
Anthem: O magnum mysterium (Tomas Luis da Victoria)
Hymn: How brightly beams the morning star (tune: Wie Schön Leuchtet, harmony by J S Bach)
Anthem: In a byre near Bethlehem (Irish trad, arranged by John L Bell and Frikki Walker)
Anthem: Bethlehem Down (Peter Warlock)
Hymn: New light has dawned (I think the tune was by Peter Barnard, but apologies if that's wrong!)
Anthem: Lo! Star led chiefs (William Crotch)
Hymn: Of the Father's love begotten (tune: Divinum Mysterium)
Of all of the above, personally my highlight was the Victoria anthem which is very atmospheric and very beautiful. The lowlight? Well, for me the jury's still out on the New light has dawned hymn which I didn't quite get to grips with and I suspect I wasn't the only one. It went well enough, but I didn't particularly enjoy it. Still, if everything was perfect it'd be a boring world I guess!
A nice surprise for me was the William Crotch anthem, because it was one I've never heard before, and it's a wee gem. Lots of fun to sing.
RSCM Scottish Voices is still a new choir, and we've only met some half dozen times so far. For the first wee while the focus was just on a rehearsal day with a small service tacked on at the end, almost as an afterthought, but that's the nature of starting up such a choir consisting of people who don't already know each other and who don't meet to rehearse on a weekly basis. The first services weren't advertised in any way and so were put on pretty much just for ourselves to round off the day of rehearsing, and the first actual congregation I think we had was a single person at the service at the end of our residential weekend in Musselburgh last year. We had a small handful at St Ninian's Cathedral in Perth last September, and a similar sized group at St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh in November. Yesterday though we had over 20 in the congregation which, while clearly is a small number of people in the grand scheme of things, was the biggest number to whom we've sung so far. Numbers aren't the target of course, but it was nice to see them.
Performance wise, our Musical Director Frikki Walker was pleased with the way it went and how we sounded. We continue to develop and progress, and things are still looking good for the future.
So that's all very well, but what about afterwards?
About 100 yards along from the front gate of the church is a pub called the Tyneside Tavern, sitting next to an old mill on the river Tyne. I'd already identified it from the CAMRA Good Beer Guide as a good place to go, and we weren't disappointed. A good turn out of choir members, maybe 20 people, and the beer and craic were good as was the food a few of us had a bit later. With very friendly staff, and the lounge bar pretty much to ourselves, I could have stayed there all night, but sadly had to travel back west to home!
There were a lot of call offs, partly due to the weather and partly for other reasons, so a smaller choir than usual, consisting of nine sopranos, three altos, four tenors, and six basses, turned up at the incredibly beautiful and historic St Mary's Parish Church at 10am to be fed tea, coffee and biscuits by the the very friendly ladies of the parish. We then walked a few hundred yards to the Trinity Centre, the church hall of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, where we rehearsed in the morning to allow our organist to rehearse on the splendid looking organ in St Mary's church. As it happened, we didn't need to decamp, because our regular organist Richard Walmsley couldn't make it so at very short notice Matthew Beetschen, organist of Dunblane Cathedral and chair of the RSCM Scotland committee, stepped ably into the breach but he didn't arrive until lunchtime so we could have rehearsed in the church after all. Not to worry.
The music was very slightly different to that advertised in my previous post, and consisted of:
Hymn: O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness (tune: Was Lebet)
Anthem: O magnum mysterium (Tomas Luis da Victoria)
Hymn: How brightly beams the morning star (tune: Wie Schön Leuchtet, harmony by J S Bach)
Anthem: In a byre near Bethlehem (Irish trad, arranged by John L Bell and Frikki Walker)
Anthem: Bethlehem Down (Peter Warlock)
Hymn: New light has dawned (I think the tune was by Peter Barnard, but apologies if that's wrong!)
Anthem: Lo! Star led chiefs (William Crotch)
Hymn: Of the Father's love begotten (tune: Divinum Mysterium)
Of all of the above, personally my highlight was the Victoria anthem which is very atmospheric and very beautiful. The lowlight? Well, for me the jury's still out on the New light has dawned hymn which I didn't quite get to grips with and I suspect I wasn't the only one. It went well enough, but I didn't particularly enjoy it. Still, if everything was perfect it'd be a boring world I guess!
A nice surprise for me was the William Crotch anthem, because it was one I've never heard before, and it's a wee gem. Lots of fun to sing.
RSCM Scottish Voices is still a new choir, and we've only met some half dozen times so far. For the first wee while the focus was just on a rehearsal day with a small service tacked on at the end, almost as an afterthought, but that's the nature of starting up such a choir consisting of people who don't already know each other and who don't meet to rehearse on a weekly basis. The first services weren't advertised in any way and so were put on pretty much just for ourselves to round off the day of rehearsing, and the first actual congregation I think we had was a single person at the service at the end of our residential weekend in Musselburgh last year. We had a small handful at St Ninian's Cathedral in Perth last September, and a similar sized group at St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh in November. Yesterday though we had over 20 in the congregation which, while clearly is a small number of people in the grand scheme of things, was the biggest number to whom we've sung so far. Numbers aren't the target of course, but it was nice to see them.
Performance wise, our Musical Director Frikki Walker was pleased with the way it went and how we sounded. We continue to develop and progress, and things are still looking good for the future.
So that's all very well, but what about afterwards?
About 100 yards along from the front gate of the church is a pub called the Tyneside Tavern, sitting next to an old mill on the river Tyne. I'd already identified it from the CAMRA Good Beer Guide as a good place to go, and we weren't disappointed. A good turn out of choir members, maybe 20 people, and the beer and craic were good as was the food a few of us had a bit later. With very friendly staff, and the lounge bar pretty much to ourselves, I could have stayed there all night, but sadly had to travel back west to home!
Friday, 8 January 2010
Haddington 2010
Music will include:
Bethlehem Down (Warlock); O Magnum Mysterium (Victoria); Lo star-led chiefs (Crotch); The Coventry Carol (trad arr Willcocks); There is a star (trad Spiritual); How brightly beams the morning star (Bach).
As ever we will be conducted by Frikki Walker, and accompanied by Richard Walmsley.
It'd be great to see a nice big congregation in this lovely historic church, which is in Sidegate, Haddington EH41 4BZ.
On their Website, they describe how to find the church as:
The market town of Haddington is 20 miles East of Edinburgh along the A1 dual carriageway. Travelling East take the second exit to Haddington - St Mary's is signposted from the main road. Look to the South, and you will see the old church tower in the distance.
The choir still has some vacancies for singers, so if you are aged 18 or over, are resident in Scotland, have experience in church choral singing, and would like to be considered for an audition or would like more information, please contact the choir administrator at scottishvoices@rscmscotland.org for an application form.
Holders of RSCM Bronze, Silver or Gold awards need not audition, but should contact the administrator for further details.
Monday, 4 January 2010
Wrong date advertised
I've been advised that some information in the RSCM publication The Network is wrong. I haven't seen it myself but apparently it states that RSCM Scottish Voices will next meet on 6th January, when in fact it is Saturday 16th January which is the correct date. For the avoidance of doubt we always meet on Saturdays.
Apologies if this error has mislead anyone, but the information passed to the editor of The Network was correct.
The service, which is open to all to attend, will take place at 4pm, and the church is in the middle of Haddington.
Apologies if this error has mislead anyone, but the information passed to the editor of The Network was correct.
The service, which is open to all to attend, will take place at 4pm, and the church is in the middle of Haddington.
Friday, 25 December 2009
Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas to all members of RSCM Scottish Voices, and to all our friends and family.
This is always a busy time for church musicians, and I trust that all the hard work in rehearsals and carol services has paid off and you can soon enjoy a bit of a break.
For members of the choir, it's now only a few weeks to our next meeting at Haddington, the first service of 2010 and the next step in our development, and it looks set to be a good year for us.
This is always a busy time for church musicians, and I trust that all the hard work in rehearsals and carol services has paid off and you can soon enjoy a bit of a break.
For members of the choir, it's now only a few weeks to our next meeting at Haddington, the first service of 2010 and the next step in our development, and it looks set to be a good year for us.
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