The Third “Three Choirs Festival” -March 23rd -25th, featuring internationally renowned Soprano Felicity Lott
The Third ‘Frant Three Choirs Festival’
23rd-24th-25th March 2012
Presenting some of the UKs best choirs, and one of the world’s finest sopranos, Dame Felicity Lott
Dame Felicity Lott
(Picture credit Trevor Leighton)
Friday 23rd March @ 7pm ‘The Chancel Singers’ with Music Director and Organist Christopher Harris MA FRCO. ‘The Chancels’ have sung in abbeys, churches and cathedrals throughout England, including Salisbury, Winchester, Bath, Lincoln, Chichester, St Paul’s etc. Christopher Harris studied music at Jesus College Oxford, and University College Cardiff, specializing in the medieval music of Britain and Europe. As organist, Christopher has played in Westminster Abbey, Chichester Cathedral, St Martin-in-the-Fields, and others. The evening will include a short organ recital, and will also feature a few songs by the Frant Primary School Children’s Chorus. Tickets £7, children 15 and under free
Saturday 24th March @ 3pm. ‘Quorum’ Chamber Choir, with Music Director and Organist Adrian Goss.
Pursuing a mainly a cappella tradition, the choir is equally at home in renaissance polyphony, baroque oratorio as well as lighter and more modern repertoire. They have performed in St- Martin-in-the Fields, Chartres and Laon Cathedral, France, and many cathedrals and churches in England. Adrian Goss studied at the Royal Academy of Music, and in a wide-ranging career, has performed as a tenor as well as organist, with experience embracing Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and broadcasts with the BBC. Tickets £5, children 15 and under free
Saturday 24th March @ 7.30pm ‘Polyphony’ with Music Director Michael Fields. Rutter’s ‘Feel the Spirit’ will be performed, with other works, by this fine chamber choir. Soloists will be soprano Ansy Boothroyd and pianist Jane Spurr. Michael Fields combines his experience in music in a varied career, performing, directing, teaching and record-producing. As a soloist, he has give recitals in the USA, Australia and England, and as a conductor with ‘Polyphony’, he has performed works by Charpentier, Monteverdi and Vivaldi. Tickets £7 children under 15 free
Sunday 25th March @ 7.30pm Dame Felicity Lott accompanied by brilliant pianist Sebastian Wybrew. Dame Felicity is arguably Britain’s best loved soprano, with an international reputation as a concert singer, collaborating with most of the great conductors currently active, Sir Simon Rattle, Haitink, Mehta, Previn etc. Felicity has appeared in all the great opera houses of the world, Vienna, Milan, Paris, New York, London etc, and has enjoyed a long association with Glyndebourne. Tickets £16
To buy tickets for all concerts individually would be £35, but a ‘weekend-pass’ is available for £22 to ‘pick and mix’ or see all of them!
Tickets available from Frant Stores, or by tel. Paul Barber 01892 750665 or David Cragg 01892 750845
The Festival is in aid of the conservation of Frant Church, a beautiful Grade 11 listed building (circa 1822) in the heart of Frant Village. Reg. Charity 243134