Past concerts:

Click on dates for programmes, where available

2024 June 22; Christ Church, Chorleywood

Animal Magic [poster]
Coleman, The Rhythm of Life
Horowitz, Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo
Rutter, The Reluctant Dragon

2024 March 16; The Muse, Watford

[poster]
Handel, Dixit Dominus
Cayton, The Way Through the Woods (Premiere)

2023 November 18; St. Andrew's, Chorleywood

Magnificat! [poster]
Rutter, Magnificat
McDowall, Ave Maris Stella; Magnificat

2023 Jun 24; Sarratt Village Hall

The Making of the Drum [poster]
+ Missa Luba; Five Spirituals

2023 Feb 25; Clarendon Muse, Watford

Music by Will Todd [poster]
Mass in Blue; Songs of Peace; Amazing Grace

2022 Dec 17; Hillside Centre, Chorleywood

A Seasonal Celebration [poster]
Carols and More, by the Chiltern Singers

2022 Oct 15; St. Mary's, Rickmansworth

An Evening of Sacred Choral Music [poster]
Vivaldi, Gloria;
Cayton, Beatae Virginis Mariae;
Rutter, A Ukrainian Prayer

2022 Aug 13/14; Tewkesbury Abbey

Aug 13: Evensong
Aug 14: Sung Eucharist, Evensong
[Visit postponed from 2020]

2022 Jul 2; Village Hall, Sarratt

All That Jazz [poster]
A selection of popular songs with a jazz twist
[The last performance with our long-term accompanist Anna Le Hair]

2022 Mar 19; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Highlights from Mendelssohn's Elijah [poster]

2021 Dec 18; live on-line

Christmas Cheer – Carols & More
A live broadcast of pre-recorded dress-rehearsal material, presented by Michael Cayton. (Last-minute replacement for a planned live event at the Memorial Hall, Chorleywood, in response to the rise of the covid-19 omicron variant.)

2021 Nov 20; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

An Early Evening of French Music
Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine;
Dupré, Quatre Motets;
Vierne, Messe Solennelle

[Suspension of live events due to covid pandemic]

2019 Nov 30; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Contemporary Choral Classics
Cecilia McDowall, Stabat Mater;
Will Todd, Songs of Peace;
Jonathan Dove, Missa Brevis;
Bob Chilcott, Little Jazz Mass

2019 Jul 6; Village Hall, Sarratt

Opera Choruses
Classic choruses from the operatic repertoire

May 2019: Vienna & Slovakia Tour

Sacred Music Through the Ages
3/5, St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna
4/5, Church of St. Francis Xavier, Skalica
5/5, Holy Saviour (Jesuit) Church, Bratislava

2019 Mar 30; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Sacred Music Through the Ages
Great choral works from Palestrina to the present

2018 Dec 8; Chorleywood Memorial Hall

Christmas Cheer
A family-friendly concert of Christmas music

2018 Nov 10; Watford Colosseum

In Memoriam (Joint concert with Watford Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra)
The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (Karl Jenkins)
Requiem (John Rutter)

2018 Jun 30; Village Hall, Sarratt

A Golden Night at the Movies
Cinema Classics from West Side Story, My Fair Lady, and more
(50th anniversary concert)

2018 Mar 24; Clarendon Muse, Watford

Spring Concert: Monteverdi, Vespers

2017 Nov 25; St. Mary's, Rickmansworth

Faure, Cantique de Jean Racine; Requiem
Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
Cayton, Missa Beatae Virginis Mariae (Premiere)

2017 July 1; Christ Church, Chorleywood

Summer Concert: Sonnets & Spirituals
Rutter, Birthday madrigals
Trad., Steal Away (Chiltern Singers)
Trad., Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Shearing, Songs & Sonnets from Shakespeare
Morley, Now is the month of maying (Chiltern Singers)
Hogan, Glory, Glory to the New Born King
Hawkins, Oh happy day

2017 Mar 25; Free Church, Amersham

Gloria! Gloria!
Choral Masterpieces by Vivaldi, Monteverdi & Palestrina

2016 Dec 10; Memorial Hall, Chorleywood

Christmas Cheer
A family-friendly selection of carols and other festive music

2016 Jun 25; Free Church, Amersham

Summer Concert: 'Entente Chorale'
Joint performance with colleagues from the Ensemble Dodecaphonia (Dardilly, France)
Part 1: Whitacre, Animal Crackers, 1 – 6;
Seal Lullaby;
A Boy and a Girl
Sleep;
Lux Aurumque;
Five Hebrew Love Songs
Part 2: Bach, Christ Lag in Todes Banden (BWV 4),
Excerpts from Missa in G minor (BWV 235) Arvo Pärt, Magnificat
Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah

2016 Mar 19; King's Church, Amersham

Spring concert: Bach, St. John Passion

2015 Nov 21; St. Mary's, Rickmansworth

Brahms, Requiem

2015 Jun 27; St. Mary's, Rickmansworth

'In Paradisium'
Faure, Requiem
Faure, Cantique de Jean Racine
Saint-Saens; Durufle; Franck; Poulenc; Messiaen

2015 Mar 21; Chapel of the Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth

Bach by Candlelight:
Cantata 182
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Lobet den Herrn
Cantata 147

2014 Dec 6; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Christmas Concert:
Mozart, Coronation Mass
Rutter, When Icicles Hang
Carols for Choir and Audience

2014 Jul 5; Christ Church, Chorleywood

Vaughan Williams:
Five Mystical Songs
Two Anthems
English Folk Songs
John Rutter, Feel the Spirit

2014 Mar 29; Clarendon Muse, Watford

Blues at the Muse – a concert of jazz-inspired choral music by Will Todd
Mass in Blue
Amazing Grace
Songs of Love
The Call of Wisdom
(Featuring Bethany Halliday and the Will Todd Trio)

2013 Dec 7; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

'Seasonal Celebration':
Haydn, St Nicholas Mass
Telemann, Concerto in C for Two Trumpets
Peter Skellern Six Simple Carols
Readings & Congregational Carols
and
Malcolm Archer, Awake my Soul and with the Sun
(Commissioned in memory of Jim Darby)

2013 Jun 22; Christ Church, Chorleywood

David Fanshawe, African Sanctus
Bob Chilcott, A Little Jazz Mass

2013 Mar 23; The Clarendon Muse, Watford

Beethoven, Mass in C
Mozart, Piano Concerto in A (soloist Anna le Hair)
Haydn, Te Deum

2012 Dec 15; Chorleywood Memorial Hall

'Christmas Cheer' concert

2012 Nov 24; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Howard Goodall, Requiem – Eternal Light
James Whitbourn, Son of Man Mass;
Paul Mealor, Ubi Caritas

2012 Jun 23; St Paul's, Chipperfield

Frank Bridge, Part Songs
John Rutter, Birthday Madrigals
Eric Whitacre, Animal Crackers

2012 Mar 17; St. Albans Cathedral

Bach: Mass in B Minor
(with the Harrow Choral Society)

2011 Dec 10; St. Mary's, Rickmansworth

Christmas Spectacular – Carols for Choir & Audience

2011 Jul 2; Sarratt Village Hall

Jazz & Pop
Abba, Coldplay, 'In the Mood'...

2011 Mar 26; The Clarendon Muse, Watford

Rutter: Psalmfest
Haydn: Nelson Mass

2010 Dec 11; Chorleywood Memorial Hall

'Christmas Cheer' – Family carol concert

2010 Nov 27; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Poulenc: Stabat Mater
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle

2010 Jun 26; St Paul's, Chipperfield

English Anthems, including:
Vaughan Williams (arr.), Old Hundredth
Stanford, Three Motets
Rathbone, Absolon, My Son
Purcell, Bell Anthem
Parry, Jerusalem

2010 Mar 27; Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth

Bach: Magnificat
Mozart: Requiem

2009 Nov 28 ; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Haydn, The Creation

2009 Jun 20; Sarratt Village Hall

'Songs with a Swing', including:
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Lullaby of Birdland
Autumn Leaves
Mona Lisa
Hey Big Spender

2009 Apr 4; Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth

Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
Barber, Hermit Songs
Jenkins, Requiem

2008 Dec 13; Chorleywood Memorial Hall

Christmas Carols

2008 Nov 29; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Dvorak, Mass in D Minor
Dvorak, Te Deum
Janacek, Otcenas (Lord's Prayer)

2008 Jun 28; St Paul's Chipperfield

'Elizabethan Anthems: Sacred and Profane', including:
Tomkins, When David Heard
Byrd, Justorum Animae
Tallis, If Ye Love Me
Gibbons, Hosanna to the Son of David
Rutter, Birthday Madrigals

2008 Mar 8; St Alban's Cathedral

Bach, St Matthew Passion
(with the Harrow Choral Society)

2007 Dec 1; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Christmas concert:
Rutter, Magnificat
Gounod, Messe Solonnelle

2007 Jun 30; St Paul's Chipperfield

Summer Concert:
Chilcott, The Making of theDrum
Tippett, Five Negro Spirituals
Gershwin, Choral Selection from Porgy and Bess
plus Missa Luba, Traditional Caribbean Songs, Jamaican Rumba

2007 Mar 24; St Mary's, Watford

Spring Concert (in aid of The Peace Hospice):
Berlioz, Te Deum
Durufle, Requiem
Bruckner, Motets

2006 Dec 9; Chorleywood Memorial Hall

Christmas Concert – songs & carols

2006 Nov 25; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Advent Concert, including:
Jenkins, The Armed Man
Mozart, Vespers

2006 Jun 24; Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth

Opera Choruses, featuring Carmina Burana

2006 Mar 25; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Death & Resurrection:
Kelly, Crucifixion
Faure, Cantique de Jean Racine
Handel, Zadok the PriestMessiah

2005 Dec 10; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Christmas Concert:
Haydn, Maria Theresa Mass
Rachmaninov, Bogoroditsye Dyevo
Bach, Christmas Oratorio Part 1
Adam, O Holy Night

2005 Jun 25; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Summer Concert:
Peter Maxwell Davis, The Kestrel Road
Rogers & Hammerstein,
Selection from South Pacific
Schonberg & Kretzner
Selection from Les Miserables
plus works by Horder, Brahms, Campling, Flanders & Swan, Mascagni

2005 Apr 30; St Alban's Cathedral

Mozart, Exsulate, jubilate
Stanford, Magnificat and Nunc Dimitis
Brahm's Ein Deutsches Requiem
(with the Harrow Choral Society)

2004 Dec 11; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Christmas Concert:
Haydn, Missa Brevis St Joannis de Deo
Mulet, Organ Voluntary - Carrillon Sortie
Rutter, When Icicles Hang
plus carols for choir & audience

2004 Jun 19; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Gypsies & Mystery:
Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb
Brahms, Zigeunerlieder
Durufle, Four Motets
Vaughan Williams, Five Mystical Songs

2004 Mar 27; Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth

Voices & Brass:
Joseph Jongen, Mass
Walton, Coronation Te Deum
Parry, I Was Glad


The Chiltern Choir: Concerts

Past concerts:

Click on dates for programmes, where available

2024 June 22; Christ Church, Chorleywood

Animal Magic [poster]
Coleman, The Rhythm of Life
Horowitz, Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo
Rutter, The Reluctant Dragon

2024 March 16; The Muse, Watford

[poster]
Handel, Dixit Dominus
Cayton, The Way Through the Woods (Premiere)

2023 November 18; St. Andrew's, Chorleywood

Magnificat! [poster]
Rutter, Magnificat
McDowall, Ave Maris Stella; Magnificat

2023 Jun 24; Sarratt Village Hall

The Making of the Drum [poster]
+ Missa Luba; Five Spirituals

2023 Feb 25; Clarendon Muse, Watford

Music by Will Todd [poster]
Mass in Blue; Songs of Peace; Amazing Grace

2022 Dec 17; Hillside Centre, Chorleywood

A Seasonal Celebration [poster]
Carols and More, by the Chiltern Singers

2022 Oct 15; St. Mary's, Rickmansworth

An Evening of Sacred Choral Music [poster]
Vivaldi, Gloria;
Cayton, Beatae Virginis Mariae;
Rutter, A Ukrainian Prayer

2022 Aug 13/14; Tewkesbury Abbey

Aug 13: Evensong
Aug 14: Sung Eucharist, Evensong
[Visit postponed from 2020]

2022 Jul 2; Village Hall, Sarratt

All That Jazz [poster]
A selection of popular songs with a jazz twist
[The last performance with our long-term accompanist Anna Le Hair]

2022 Mar 19; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Highlights from Mendelssohn's Elijah [poster]

2021 Dec 18; live on-line

Christmas Cheer – Carols & More
A live broadcast of pre-recorded dress-rehearsal material, presented by Michael Cayton. (Last-minute replacement for a planned live event at the Memorial Hall, Chorleywood, in response to the rise of the covid-19 omicron variant.)

2021 Nov 20; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

An Early Evening of French Music
Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine;
Dupré, Quatre Motets;
Vierne, Messe Solennelle

[Suspension of live events due to covid pandemic]

2019 Nov 30; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Contemporary Choral Classics
Cecilia McDowall, Stabat Mater;
Will Todd, Songs of Peace;
Jonathan Dove, Missa Brevis;
Bob Chilcott, Little Jazz Mass

2019 Jul 6; Village Hall, Sarratt

Opera Choruses
Classic choruses from the operatic repertoire

May 2019: Vienna & Slovakia Tour

Sacred Music Through the Ages
3/5, St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna
4/5, Church of St. Francis Xavier, Skalica
5/5, Holy Saviour (Jesuit) Church, Bratislava

2019 Mar 30; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Sacred Music Through the Ages
Great choral works from Palestrina to the present

2018 Dec 8; Chorleywood Memorial Hall

Christmas Cheer
A family-friendly concert of Christmas music

2018 Nov 10; Watford Colosseum

In Memoriam (Joint concert with Watford Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra)
The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (Karl Jenkins)
Requiem (John Rutter)

2018 Jun 30; Village Hall, Sarratt

A Golden Night at the Movies
Cinema Classics from West Side Story, My Fair Lady, and more
(50th anniversary concert)

2018 Mar 24; Clarendon Muse, Watford

Spring Concert: Monteverdi, Vespers

2017 Nov 25; St. Mary's, Rickmansworth

Faure, Cantique de Jean Racine; Requiem
Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
Cayton, Missa Beatae Virginis Mariae (Premiere)

2017 July 1; Christ Church, Chorleywood

Summer Concert: Sonnets & Spirituals
Rutter, Birthday madrigals
Trad., Steal Away (Chiltern Singers)
Trad., Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Shearing, Songs & Sonnets from Shakespeare
Morley, Now is the month of maying (Chiltern Singers)
Hogan, Glory, Glory to the New Born King
Hawkins, Oh happy day

2017 Mar 25; Free Church, Amersham

Gloria! Gloria!
Choral Masterpieces by Vivaldi, Monteverdi & Palestrina

2016 Dec 10; Memorial Hall, Chorleywood

Christmas Cheer
A family-friendly selection of carols and other festive music

2016 Jun 25; Free Church, Amersham

Summer Concert: 'Entente Chorale'
Joint performance with colleagues from the Ensemble Dodecaphonia (Dardilly, France)
Part 1: Whitacre, Animal Crackers, 1 – 6;
Seal Lullaby;
A Boy and a Girl
Sleep;
Lux Aurumque;
Five Hebrew Love Songs
Part 2: Bach, Christ Lag in Todes Banden (BWV 4),
Excerpts from Missa in G minor (BWV 235) Arvo Pärt, Magnificat
Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah

2016 Mar 19; King's Church, Amersham

Spring concert: Bach, St. John Passion

2015 Nov 21; St. Mary's, Rickmansworth

Brahms, Requiem

2015 Jun 27; St. Mary's, Rickmansworth

'In Paradisium'
Faure, Requiem
Faure, Cantique de Jean Racine
Saint-Saens; Durufle; Franck; Poulenc; Messiaen

2015 Mar 21; Chapel of the Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth

Bach by Candlelight:
Cantata 182
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Lobet den Herrn
Cantata 147

2014 Dec 6; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Christmas Concert:
Mozart, Coronation Mass
Rutter, When Icicles Hang
Carols for Choir and Audience

2014 Jul 5; Christ Church, Chorleywood

Vaughan Williams:
Five Mystical Songs
Two Anthems
English Folk Songs
John Rutter, Feel the Spirit

2014 Mar 29; Clarendon Muse, Watford

Blues at the Muse – a concert of jazz-inspired choral music by Will Todd
Mass in Blue
Amazing Grace
Songs of Love
The Call of Wisdom
(Featuring Bethany Halliday and the Will Todd Trio)

2013 Dec 7; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

'Seasonal Celebration':
Haydn, St Nicholas Mass
Telemann, Concerto in C for Two Trumpets
Peter Skellern Six Simple Carols
Readings & Congregational Carols
and
Malcolm Archer, Awake my Soul and with the Sun
(Commissioned in memory of Jim Darby)

2013 Jun 22; Christ Church, Chorleywood

David Fanshawe, African Sanctus
Bob Chilcott, A Little Jazz Mass

2013 Mar 23; The Clarendon Muse, Watford

Beethoven, Mass in C
Mozart, Piano Concerto in A (soloist Anna le Hair)
Haydn, Te Deum

2012 Dec 15; Chorleywood Memorial Hall

'Christmas Cheer' concert

2012 Nov 24; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Howard Goodall, Requiem – Eternal Light
James Whitbourn, Son of Man Mass;
Paul Mealor, Ubi Caritas

2012 Jun 23; St Paul's, Chipperfield

Frank Bridge, Part Songs
John Rutter, Birthday Madrigals
Eric Whitacre, Animal Crackers

2012 Mar 17; St. Albans Cathedral

Bach: Mass in B Minor
(with the Harrow Choral Society)

2011 Dec 10; St. Mary's, Rickmansworth

Christmas Spectacular – Carols for Choir & Audience

2011 Jul 2; Sarratt Village Hall

Jazz & Pop
Abba, Coldplay, 'In the Mood'...

2011 Mar 26; The Clarendon Muse, Watford

Rutter: Psalmfest
Haydn: Nelson Mass

2010 Dec 11; Chorleywood Memorial Hall

'Christmas Cheer' – Family carol concert

2010 Nov 27; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Poulenc: Stabat Mater
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle

2010 Jun 26; St Paul's, Chipperfield

English Anthems, including:
Vaughan Williams (arr.), Old Hundredth
Stanford, Three Motets
Rathbone, Absolon, My Son
Purcell, Bell Anthem
Parry, Jerusalem

2010 Mar 27; Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth

Bach: Magnificat
Mozart: Requiem

2009 Nov 28 ; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Haydn, The Creation

2009 Jun 20; Sarratt Village Hall

'Songs with a Swing', including:
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Lullaby of Birdland
Autumn Leaves
Mona Lisa
Hey Big Spender

2009 Apr 4; Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth

Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
Barber, Hermit Songs
Jenkins, Requiem

2008 Dec 13; Chorleywood Memorial Hall

Christmas Carols

2008 Nov 29; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Dvorak, Mass in D Minor
Dvorak, Te Deum
Janacek, Otcenas (Lord's Prayer)

2008 Jun 28; St Paul's Chipperfield

'Elizabethan Anthems: Sacred and Profane', including:
Tomkins, When David Heard
Byrd, Justorum Animae
Tallis, If Ye Love Me
Gibbons, Hosanna to the Son of David
Rutter, Birthday Madrigals

2008 Mar 8; St Alban's Cathedral

Bach, St Matthew Passion
(with the Harrow Choral Society)

2007 Dec 1; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Christmas concert:
Rutter, Magnificat
Gounod, Messe Solonnelle

2007 Jun 30; St Paul's Chipperfield

Summer Concert:
Chilcott, The Making of theDrum
Tippett, Five Negro Spirituals
Gershwin, Choral Selection from Porgy and Bess
plus Missa Luba, Traditional Caribbean Songs, Jamaican Rumba

2007 Mar 24; St Mary's, Watford

Spring Concert (in aid of The Peace Hospice):
Berlioz, Te Deum
Durufle, Requiem
Bruckner, Motets

2006 Dec 9; Chorleywood Memorial Hall

Christmas Concert – songs & carols

2006 Nov 25; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Advent Concert, including:
Jenkins, The Armed Man
Mozart, Vespers

2006 Jun 24; Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth

Opera Choruses, featuring Carmina Burana

2006 Mar 25; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Death & Resurrection:
Kelly, Crucifixion
Faure, Cantique de Jean Racine
Handel, Zadok the PriestMessiah

2005 Dec 10; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Christmas Concert:
Haydn, Maria Theresa Mass
Rachmaninov, Bogoroditsye Dyevo
Bach, Christmas Oratorio Part 1
Adam, O Holy Night

2005 Jun 25; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Summer Concert:
Peter Maxwell Davis, The Kestrel Road
Rogers & Hammerstein,
Selection from South Pacific
Schonberg & Kretzner
Selection from Les Miserables
plus works by Horder, Brahms, Campling, Flanders & Swan, Mascagni

2005 Apr 30; St Alban's Cathedral

Mozart, Exsulate, jubilate
Stanford, Magnificat and Nunc Dimitis
Brahm's Ein Deutsches Requiem
(with the Harrow Choral Society)

2004 Dec 11; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Christmas Concert:
Haydn, Missa Brevis St Joannis de Deo
Mulet, Organ Voluntary - Carrillon Sortie
Rutter, When Icicles Hang
plus carols for choir & audience

2004 Jun 19; St Mary's, Rickmansworth

Gypsies & Mystery:
Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb
Brahms, Zigeunerlieder
Durufle, Four Motets
Vaughan Williams, Five Mystical Songs

2004 Mar 27; Royal Masonic School, Rickmansworth

Voices & Brass:
Joseph Jongen, Mass
Walton, Coronation Te Deum
Parry, I Was Glad