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‘Seventh Heaven’ with the Farrant Singers
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Conducted by Andrew Mackay The full programme is listed below. Tickets are available for just £10 each from the Salisbury Playhouse Box Office. Or on the door.
The group currently comprises around 38 singers and its repertoire includes a wide range of sacred and secular music, spanning many periods and styles. Recent programmes have included music by Victoria, Morales, Bach, Purcell, Brahms, Britten, MacMillan and Gabriel Jackson. The choir gives two or three concerts in Salisbury annually and others around the region, as well as performing at weddings and celebrations.
The Farrant Singers celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2008 with the commissioning of The Farrant Singers Collection, seven pieces by composers associated with the choir: Barry Ferguson, David Halls, Sam Hanson, Philip Lawson, Richard Lloyd, Howard Moody and Richard Shephard. The Collection has been recorded, and is available on CD along with other favourites from the choir’s repertoire. Three tracks were broadcast on Classic FM in September 2009, as part of a programme showcasing recordings by members of the Making Music organisation. Andrew MackayAndrew Mackay took up the baton in December 2011. Andy is already well known to many concert-goers in Salisbury as founder and director of the Sarum Consort and its associated group, the Sarum Consort Singers. While much of his professional career has been devoted to teaching, he has a wealth of experience as a singer and conductor, beginning as a student at Trinity College and King’s College, Cambridge. He has been conductor of Goring Chamber Choir and Romsey Singers, and has many operatic and orchestral conducting credits, as well as being a former lay clerk at Salisbury Cathedral. He currently teaches at Godolphin School, and lives in Harnham with his wife and two daughters. Programme:Early music Italian Corner Britannia Rules the Staves Finale
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