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Upcoming Concerts

Tickets for our concerts cost £10 or £6 concessions. They are available on the door or in advance through the Minster Box Office (01904 557208).

See below for details of our forthcoming concerts. Details of our previous concerts are available on our Past Concerts page.

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2008–2009

Praise Him upon the Loud Cymbals

Saturday, 4th July 2009, 8pm, Quire of York Minster

Organ, harp and percussion join this celebration of Independence Day in Bernstein’s dazzling Chichester Psalms and Tarik O’Regan’s recent setting of the Canticles, completed in Manhattan.

Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Kodály: Missa Brevis
O’Regan: Dorchester Canticles

2008–2009

Hail, Bright Cecilia

Saturday, 28th November 2009, 8pm, Quire of York Minster

Join us to honour the patron saint of music, whose feast day falls on 22nd November. The majority of tonight's composers have written settings for the annual St Cecilia's Day service in London, and the works performed here balance exuberant joy with quiet contemplation.

Leighton: Let all the world in every corner sing
Vaughan Williams: Antiphon from Five Mystical Songs
McCabe: The Evening Watch
Holst: The Evening Watch
Whitacre: i thank You God for most this amazing day
Bernard Rose: Feast Song for St Cecilia
Bennett: Verses on St Cecilia
Finzi: God is gone up
Tavener: God With Us
Lauridsen: Ave Maria
Gardner: A Song for St Cecilia
Dove: Bless the Lord, O My Soul
Britten: Chorale on an Old French Carol

A Little Light Shakespeare

Saturday, 27th March 2010, 8pm, Salvation Army Citadel, Gillygate

An international take on English literature sees Finnish and American composers, as well as British, using jazz, madrigal, doo-wop and hillbilly to show William Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll in a whole new light. Bob Chilcott's Little Jazz Mass completes the musical riot.

Rissanen: Jabberwocky
Harris: A selection of Shakespeare Songs
Mäntyjärvi: Shakespeare Songs
Chilcott: A Little Jazz Mass
Shearing: Music to Hear

One Foot In Eden

Saturday, 3rd July 2010, 8pm, Chapter House of York Minster

From the Fall of Adam to our redemption, explored through ravishing music. A selection of James MacMillan's Strathclyde Motets provide a meditational centrepiece, and Pawel Lukaszewski's Beatus Vir settings are electrifying works from Poland, written between 1996 and 2003.

Maw: One foot In Eden still, I stand
Lukaszewski: Beatus Vir, Sanctus Paulus
Lukaszewski: Beatus Vir, Sanctus Martinus
Lukaszewski: Beatus Vir, Sanctus Antonius
MacMillan: A selection of The Strathclyde Motets
Pott: Jesu Dulcis Memoria
Bryars: Glorious Hill
Vaughan Williams: Prayer to the Father of Heaven

The Micklegate Singers reserve the right to change the date or venue of any concert. We also reserve the right to amend the programme of any concert without prior notice.

Past Concerts