The Gap Festival

Goring Chamber Choir will part of the celebrations at this year's festival, which also marks the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. On Market Day, Saturday 4^th June in the Rectory Gardens, we will entertain visitors with traditional songs and songs in a lighter vein.

Then, on Tuesday 7^th in the evening, the choir will sing extracts from Handel's Messiah to conclude an evening with the author Stacey Halls. Stacey's second novel, The Foundling, is set in London's Foundling Hospital, of which George Frideric Handel was a patron. Tickets for this event are available from The Gap Festival booking page.

See the list of future events, below, for full details of times and places

Future Events

2022
Goring Gap Festival & Jubilee Celebrations (link)
Event Music 4th June, 10 am – 4 pm, Festival Market Day, Rectory Gardens, Goring Folk songs 7th June, 7:30 – 10 pm, an Audience with Stacey Halls, St Thomas Church* Excerpts from Handel's Messiah
8th – 11th August (Monday–Thursday)	Evensong services at Norwich Cathedral
15th October, 3pm St. Thomas Church, Goring	Autumn concert

Concert Ticket Bookings

To book tickets for our concerts, please send email to tickets@goringchamberchoir.org.uk

* NOTE that tickets for ‘An Audience with Stacey Halls’ must be booked via The Gap Festival booking page.

Top Notes

"A glorious concert" at Douai Abbey

Our 70^th anniversary concert at Douai Abbey on 23^rd April drew much praise from the audience. Joined by professional soloists and a baroque orchestra, we performed Handel's Dixit Dominus and Haydn's Missa in Angustiis, known as the ‘Nelson Mass’. One member of the audience was moved to write to us:
“A glorious concert. The singing was simply beautiful. There is a goodly body of men’s voices in the choir which adds wonderful depth. The sopranos made a fabulous unified clear and pure sound that floated over the top. The choir ended with the most spine tingling moment of all – a short but beautiful unaccompanied sung Celtic Prayer.”
The bass soloist, John Savournin (@jsavournin), tweeted
"Lovely concert tonight in the unique Douai Abbey with @GoringCChoir. To close, the choir sang a beautiful, unaccompanied piece, reflecting on current events. Very moving. Congratulations all"

If you would like to read more about this milestone in the choir's history, click below to see the programme.

Evensong at Norwich Cathedral

This year, the choir's annual cathedral visit will be to Norwich. From Monday 8^th to Thursday 11^th of August we will sing the choral evensong services. These annual visits are a highlight of the choir's year—a chance to combine beautiful music with spiritual calm. If you or anyone you know will be in Norwich during that time, please come and enjoy the services.

About the Choir

Based in Goring-on-Thames, our choir draws members from around South Oxfordshire and Berkshire. We sing all year round, giving concerts in Spring, Autumn and at Christmas. Our repertoire ranges from the Classical through traditional to contemporary music. While our concerts always have familiar and popular pieces, we enjoy exploring new or lesser-known works — it keeps our programme fresh.