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New Committee!

acklame — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:27:43 +0000

Well done to the new Committee 2010-2011!

President: Emma Fullbrook

Vice-President: Pippa Molyneux

Treasurer: Kate Dean

Secretary: Rosie Inniss-Fitzhugh

Publicity: Naomi Trewinnard

General Member: Polly Gilfillan

Thank you to all of the old Committee and good luck to the new one!

Congratulations!

acklame — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:32:56 +0000

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

Fresher’s Fair 2009

acklame — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:12:06 +0000

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.

Student’s Union Award Nominations

acklame — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:31:58 +0000

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!

Big thank you to Mark

acklame — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:43:30 +0000

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.

Excellent review in the Leicester Mercury!

Samantha Costigan — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:29:19 +0000

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.’