Repertoire
Combe Bank Choral Society was founded in 2005 and our first concert was a performance of Karl Jenkins The Armed Man in Brasted Church.
Since then we have sung Poulenc and Rutter’s Gloria, the Faure Requiem and Handel’s Messiah, Haydn Little Organ Mass, and Janacek’s Otcenas (Lord’s Prayer). We have also given concerts of lighter music including folk song arrangements by jazz musician George Shearing, John Rutter’s Reluctant Dragon, Horovitz Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo and other choral items.
Highlights during the last 5 years have included two projects with the South African township choir/jazz inspired ensemble Mbawula, directed by Paul Bartholomew. We were fortunate enough to receive a large lottery grant for the first of these projects, enabling us to work with local school children and adults and filling the Stag Theatre for both concerts.
During 2010 we performed Handel's Messiah and presented a programme of choral works enabling many of our students to display their talents as solo singers and instrumentalists. Much of this repertoire was also used when members joined the school Chapel Choir for their tour to Rome in October 2010
In June 2011 we returned to the music that we launced the choral society with - by request of our longest-standing members who sang Karl Jenkins' Armed Man in their first choral society concert and who left the school at the end of this academic year before embarking on their university courses.
Since then we have sung Poulenc and Rutter’s Gloria, the Faure Requiem and Handel’s Messiah, Haydn Little Organ Mass, and Janacek’s Otcenas (Lord’s Prayer). We have also given concerts of lighter music including folk song arrangements by jazz musician George Shearing, John Rutter’s Reluctant Dragon, Horovitz Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo and other choral items.
Highlights during the last 5 years have included two projects with the South African township choir/jazz inspired ensemble Mbawula, directed by Paul Bartholomew. We were fortunate enough to receive a large lottery grant for the first of these projects, enabling us to work with local school children and adults and filling the Stag Theatre for both concerts.
During 2010 we performed Handel's Messiah and presented a programme of choral works enabling many of our students to display their talents as solo singers and instrumentalists. Much of this repertoire was also used when members joined the school Chapel Choir for their tour to Rome in October 2010
In June 2011 we returned to the music that we launced the choral society with - by request of our longest-standing members who sang Karl Jenkins' Armed Man in their first choral society concert and who left the school at the end of this academic year before embarking on their university courses.
