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june 2010

Jeremy Backhouse interview on ClassicFM Daily Podcast

Jeremy Backhouse, the choir’s Music Director, is interviewed this week on ClassicFM’s daily news programme, the Daily Podcast, hosted by Bob Jones. Jeremy discusses the choir’s 30th anniversary year, including the Choral Masterworks programme and the forthcoming B Minor Mass concert.

Click here to listen/ download

Bach B Minor Mass ticket sales flying

If you haven’t got your tickets for the B Minor Mass on 19 June yet, don’t delay. The event is nearing sell-out with 2weeks to go. Numbers of walk up tickets will be very restricted on the night.

Once they’re gone, they’re gone

Online: St Martin’s Box Office

Phone 020 7766 1100

may 2010

New concert date added

The choir is pleased to announce an additional concert date in our Choral Masterworks series. On Friday 15 October, we will perform at Faure’s Requiem, and our recently commissioned Requiem by Gabriel Jackson, at St Paul’s Knightsbridge. The concert will be in association with the health development charity ProjectHOPE.

More information to follow in due course.

april 2010

Tickets on sale for Canterbury Cathedral concert

Tickets for our July Choral Masterworks concert at Canterbury Cathedral, featuring the Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor and the Howells Requiem, are now on sale online.

Tickets are £10 plus £1 transaction fee. All proceeds go to the Save the Cathedral Appeal. Tickets are unreserved and on a first-come first-served basis. Don’t miss out!

£11.00 – Canterbury Cathedral Ticket x1 £21.00 – Canterbury Cathedral Ticket x2 £31.00 – Canterbury Cathedral Ticket x3 £41.00 – Canterbury Cathedral Ticket x4 £51.00 – Canterbury Cathedral Ticket x5

April 2010

Bach B Minor Mass tickets selling fast

Tickets for our next concert, the centrepiece gala performance of Bach’s masterwork, the B Minor Mass, are selling fast – with 3 months to go more than 200 tickets have already been sold.

With such a strong line up of soloists, this concert is guaranteed to sell out, so make sure to get your tickets early.

Tickets can be bought from the St Martin-in-the-Fields box office

Online: St Martin’s Box Office

Phone 020 7766 1100

march 2010

Choral masterworks season underway

With the Bach B Minor Mass workshop attracting over 220 singers on the day, the event was a fantastic success and a great way to kick off the choir’s 30th anniversary year. Visit the VasariTV page to watch the video review of the day.

The first concert at St Mary’s Redbourn was also a hugely enjoyable event for both the audience and choir alike. Our thanks go to the Redbourn 900 Team for inviting the choir to launch their 900th Anniversary celebrations.

february 2010

Vasari Singers awarded BBC Performing Arts Fund – Choral Ambition – grant for 2010

The choir is delighted to announce that we have been awarded financial grant from the BBC Performing Arts Fund for our work in 2010, specifically towards our JS Bach choral workshop project in March. The choir is grateful for the financial support which enables us to take on our ambitious programming and develop closer links with our local community and audiences.

For more information, visit these links

BBC Performing Arts Fund

BBC Choral Ambition Winners

february 2010

Fundraising partnership with easyfundraising launched

Complementing the recent partnership with www.buy.at/vasari the choir has now launched a partnership with www.easyfundraising.org.uk.

Offering a different range of retailers, the easyfundraising link widens the range of Internet shopping that you can undertake whilst raising money for the choir and supporting our activities.

To use easyfundraising, visit the site and register as a user. Select Vasari Singers as your good cause and, as with buy.at/vasari any subsequent internet shopping you then do from that visit will earn the choir a commission.

january 2010

Composers Stephen Barlow and Gabriel Jackson become patrons in the choir’s 30th anniversary year

The choir is pleased to announce that British composers Stephen Barlow and Gabriel Jackson will join Ward Swingle as patrons of the choir. Having worked closely with both composers over the past few years, the choir is delighted to be able to develop closer links. Indeed, in 2010 we shall be working closely with and performing pieces by all three of our patrons during our 30th anniversary year as part of the Choral Masterworks series.

Stephen Barlow will also be performing on stage with the choir in the B Minor Mass concert in June.

january 2010

Tickets now available for Bach B Minor Mass workshop

You can now purchase tickets for the “Come and Sing” day in March giving you the opportunity to sing through the choral sections of the B Minor Mass with the Vasari Singers.

december 2009

Vasari 2010 – 30th Anniversary Season

2010 sees the choir mark it’s 30th anniversary with a season of concerts of Choral Masterworks, with repertoire including music by Vaughan Williams, Hubert Parry, Benjamin Britten, Gabriel Jackson, Marcel Durufle and JS Bach.

Concerts confirmed include performances at St Mary’s Redbourn in March, St Martin in the Fields, London in June, and Canterbury Cathedral in July. Further dates in the autumn will follow.

The centrepiece of the year will be a performance of JS Bach’s B Minor Mass, at St Martin in the Fields, with top soloists including Lucy Crowe, Claire Seaton, Michael Chance, James Gilchrist and Peter Harvey.

Also as part of the year will be a “Come and Sing” day in March with the choir, giving you the opportunity to sing through the choral sections of the B Minor Mass.

More information on this landmark year will appear on the website in the coming weeks. Don’t miss out on this spectacular year of choral music making.

For more information view the 2010 concerts page

december 2009

Sold out

The Vasari Carols by Candlelight concert on 18 December has now sold out. See you next year!

november 2009

Tickets on sale for Carols by Candlelight 18 December

Tickets for the Vasari Singers Carols by Candlelight concert on 18 December, at the Actor’s Church, Covent Garden, are now on sale. They will be available to purchase online from this site in a few days time or by calling 020 7834 9669.

Tickets have nearly sold out, so be quick before they go!

november 2009

Vasari announces BuyAt partnership for online shopping

www.buy.at/vasari

The choir is delighted to announce the launch of a new partnership with online retail portal BuyAt.

Buy.at/vasari is a great way to do your online shopping, and earn money for the choir at the same time.

You pay exactly the same price as on the retailers main sites, often lower than on the high street.

The commission earned by the choir comes out of the retailers profit margin – it is their marketing spend.

There are over 300 online retailers hooked up to buy.at/vasari, including big names like John Lewis, Amazon, HMV, play.com and many more.

Please bookmark the URL http://www.buy.at/vasari

november 2009

Vasari’s Songs of Farewell CD still the best recording?

December’s BBC Music Magazine contains a review of a new recording of the Songs of Farewell, by Hubert Parry. In the closing summary, Terry Blain concludes:

‘the Vasari Singers’s version of Songs of Farewell (on Guild) is probably still the out-and-out market leader.’

If you haven’t got a copy, buy it now through the choir website.

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