News

Short performance/workshop

October 22nd, 2008

The Serlo Consort is delighted to return to work with the residents of The Red House Care Home in Ashtead. We perform an eclectic mix of music to the residents and encourage a ’sing-a-long’ too! This part of our outreach work is essential to what we do, and are pleased and proud to work with such a delightful staff and resident group of people.

Joint concert with Sparrows School choir

October 5th, 2008

The Serlo Consort is delighted to join with the Sparrows School choir (a children’s choir from South Africa) for an eclectic mix of choral music. Further details will be available nearer the time, but the venue is likely to be Holy Trinity Church, Clapham. Watch this space….!

Short performance/workshop

May 27th, 2008

Members of The Serlo Consort come to The Red House in Ashtead (Care Home) to perform to the residents. With music for voice and piano, the musicians interact with the residents, give some brief background information about about the music they are performing, and even sing some items for the audience to sing along to!

This is part of the important theraputic work undertaken by The Serlo Consort, alongside the concert work and educational work, and is an on-going relationship sustained between the choir and the Red House.

If other Care Homes or Hospices would be interested in members of our choir coming in to perform to their residents, please do not hesitate to get in touch…!

SERENADE - choral music through the ages

May 24th, 2008

In the second of two concerts in association with the MBF, The Serlo Consort performs a beautiful programme of unaccompanied choral music in the wonderfully intimate venue that is The Lord Mayor’s Chapel, Bristol. We’d love to see you there..!

SERENADE - choral music through the ages

April 26th, 2008

The Serlo Consort, in association with the MBF (Musicians Benevolent Fund), performs the first of two concerts with a varied programme of unaccompanied choral music to suit all tastes. Come and enjoy a first-class choral concert by a professional choir in a beautiful venue. We’d love to see you there!

J. S. Bach - St. John Passion

March 8th, 2008

The Serlo Consort, with its own instrumental ensemble, performed this seminal work to a very large, appreciative audience. Composed on a smaller scale than the St. Matthew Passion but no less powerful, it is a work full of beauty and emotion, with some of Bach’s best word painting. The soloists were: -

  • Tenor soloist & Evangelist Tom Cockett
  • Bass soloist/arias David McKee
  • Bass soloist/Jesus Paul Martin
  • Counter-tenor soloist Lloyd Griffith
  • Soprano soloist Heather Wardle

This concert was kindly sponsored by ‘Elphick Estate Agents’.

Veni Emmanuel (Christmas music through the ages)

December 15th, 2007

A festive evening of music not to be missed! The Serlo Consort will transport you through a plethora of different musical styles that composers have used over the centuries to celebrate the birth of the baby Jesus. We return to the glorious acoustic of St. John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood to perform our Christmas concert, and hope to see you there…..

There will be audience carols in addition to choir carols, the programme will be interspersed with seasonal readings (read by Philip Brooke), and the interval will give everyone the opportunity to have a glass of wine and a mince pie.

Composers will include Byrd, Victoria, Purcell, Vaughan Williams, Leighton, Warlock, Rutter and many more.

Come and get in the festive mood and enjoy an evening of first class Christmas entertainment! 

Tickets (to include a glass of wine and mince pie) £10, £8 concessions, £5 children (under 18)

Latin American Baroque Music

September 29th, 2007

The Serlo Consort, with its small instrumental ensemble, performed a vividly exciting programme of music from the ‘New World’. Accompanied items were interspersed with unaccompanied items juxtaposing rhythmic vitality with expressive emotion. There was music to move you, music that gripped you, and musical discoveries that had your feet tapping! Some of the items were…

  • Padilla Deus in adiutorium
  • Lobo Versa est in Luctum
  • Juan de Araujo Los coflades de la estleya
  • Juan Garcia de Zespedes Convidando esta la noche
  • Gaspar Fernandes Xicochi conetzintle
  • Victoria Lauda Sion
  • Ugolini Quae est ista

Concert at Art Exhibition

June 23rd, 2007

An evening concert was given by The Serlo Consort with upper voices group Vox Angelica which followed a special art exhibition in the day. Repertoire included: -

  • Gibbons O Clap your hands
  • Purcell Come ye sons of art (3 movements)
  • Parsons Ave Maria
  • Stanford 3 motets
  • Lauridsen O Nata Lux
  • Goodall Love Divine
  • Chilcott Ev’ry time I feel the Spirit

At the foot of the cross

March 17th, 2007

The Serlo Consort returned to this beautiful church with its wonderful acoustic to perform a powerful programme of emotive music for Lent through to Easter. A highlight for the choir was having the composer of The Souls of the Righteous, Geraint Lewis, in the audience.

Programme:

  • Miserere - Allegri
  • Ave Verum - Mawby
  • Lugebat David - Gombert
  • Versa est in Luctum - Lobo
  • The Souls of the Righteous - Lewis
  • Serenade to Music - Vaughan Williams
  • Lux Aeterna - Elgar
  • Love Divine - Goodall
  • Sleep - Whitacre
  • Lobet den Herrn - Bach