Congratulations to all those who were successful during the audtions!

The Committee look forward to working with you all this coming year which we’re such will be an exciting one!

We have an upcoming Evensong at St. James the Greater, London Road, Leicester on the 25th October and our concert on the 28th November also at St. James the Greater.

We look forward to seeing you there!

For more information about these events please don’t hesitate to contact us on su-luchamberchoir@le.ac.uk

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Come and find us at Fresher’s Fair on the 28th and 29th September 2009!

Auditions will be held on:

Wednesday 30th September 4.30-8pm

Thursday 1st October 6-8pm

Friday 2nd October 4.30-8pm.

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The Chamber Choir are pleased to announce that we have recently been nominated for Society of the Year, and Event of the Year along with the Christian Union for the Carol Service 2008 and for the Joint Music Societies concert in 2009 jointly with the University Music Societies.

The former President and current Liaison Officer Emily Barber has also been nominated for Officer of the Year so well done!

The awards ceremony will be held at the Student’s Union on the 19th June 2009 so we will keep you posted with the results!

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On behalf of the choir I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mark Batten for all his hard work over the past two years. Mark has decided that it is time to move on from the choir and we wish him all the best for the future.

 For the past two years Mark has dedicated many hours to the choir getting the best quality of sound he possibly can. I am sure everyone will agree that he has done a wonderful job and hopefully we will have an opportunity to work together again in the near future.

 Thank you Mark once again for all your hard work and dedication.

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Leicester University Chamber Choir sang christmas carols LIVE on LUSH FM (107.5), University of Leicester’s Student Radio today. Members sang favourites such as O Little Town of Bethlehem, Silent Night, and O Come all ye Faithful.

This was to provide publicity for the upcoming carol service on Tuesday 9th December featuring LUCC.

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LUCC would like to extend a massive thank you to everyone who came to see us at Freshers Fair last week. Auditions have taken place and those successful have been notified. Another big thank you to all of you who auditioned – it was a very high standard.

Rehearsals have begun in earnest (see Calender for a full schedule) for our first perfomance of this academic year which is a Sung Evensong at St. James the Greater Church in Leicester on Sunday 26th October 2008 at 6.30pm.

Please do come and support us for what promises to be a great occasion. Admission is free.

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Leicester University Chamber Choir have a stall at Fresher’s Fair on Monday 29th September and Wednesday 1st October from 10 – 4pm in the Venue, Students Union. Here you can meet us, find out what we do, and sign up for auditions.

Auditions are taking place on Wednesday 1st October from 12 – 4pm and Thursday 2nd October from 3.30 – 6.30 pm in Charles Wilson Floor 10. For more details see the Membership page.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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LUCC are delighted to welcome back all current members and look forward to welcoming new members in October.

To f ind out more about us, come and visit us at Freshers Fair in the first week of term.

LUCC will be holding auditions for all voice parts in the first week of term. For more details please see the Membership page.

Our rehearsals start on Tuesaday 7th October at the usual time of 7pm in Fraser Noble Hall. This term we will be working in pieces for our concert in November entitled Baroque Splendour. We have also been welcomed back to sing an Evensong at St James the Greater in late October. In December, the annual university Christmas carol service will take place.  For full details of all rehearsals and concerts this term please see the Calendar page.

For any more information regarding the choir please email luchamberchoir@gmail.com.

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Leicester University Chamber Choir would like to thank the University of Leicester Alumni Association for their generous contribution towards the purchase of new music folders for the choir. 

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Published in the Leicester Mercury, 27th November 2007, Neil Crutchley

‘This recital of Sacred British Music was the first concert given by the Leicester University Chamber Choir, and it proved to be an impressive debut.

Conducted by Mark Batten, the talented organist of St. James the Greater, the choir consists of around thirty young singers who produced an appealingly smooth and bright sound. Mark knew what he wanted from the music and how to achieve it. His conducting was direct and unmannered with lots of eye contact and plenty of cues.

The highlight was an accomplished and compelling account of Britten’s masterly cantata, Rejoice in the Lamb. This piece presents a real challenge to any choir, but these singers had been meticulously rehearsed and coped admirably with the countless changes of tempo and dynamics. It was a vibrant and searching reading with able soloists and superb organ accompaniment from Nicholas Johnson.

The concert opened with SS Wesley’s festal anthem, Blessed Be the God and Father, which was given a strong, well-paced performance and Herbert Brewer’s extrovert setting of the Magnificat was stylishly done.

John Rutter’s organ duet, Variations on an Easter Theme played by Mark Batten and Nicholas Johnson, was enjoyably eclectic with a particularly attractive blues-inspired central section, and soprano Kat Hinkel excelled in a short piece by Barry Ferguson based on inspirational words by Mother Teresa and called It was in that train.’

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