Saturday 01 March 2025 at 7:30pm
Programme
| Sibelius | Finlandia |
| Grieg | Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 |
| Puccini | Messa di Gloria |
With Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra
We will be holding a Come and Sing event on the day of this concert, a great opportunity to share in the preparation and performance of this marvellous work - for more details see: Come and Sing
BCS is pleased to be supporting Midhurst Palliative Care as its charity for the season.
Above and Beyond Your Usual Come and Sing Experience!
Over the last ten years or so, choral societies nationwide have offered workshops often billed as ‘Come and Sing’ on an annual basis, so what makes the BCS Come and Sing experience a cut above?
* The dynamic, talented and extremely experienced Music Director, Marcio da Silva, who also happens to be the MD of Billingshurst Choral Society (BCS) and the principal conductor of Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra (HPO).
* An incredible opportunity to perform with a professional orchestra and soloists.
* The chance to sing Puccini’s wonderfully operatic and passionately written Messa di Gloria.
* Perform that evening to an audience in the actual concert in the beautiful surroundings of St. Mary’s Parish Church which has an extraordinary history dating back to the 13th century. It is always warm (both temperature and friendly) and inviting with excellent acoustics.
Ideally, participants should be familiar with singing in a choir and it would be certainly advantageous, but not essential, to have sung Messa di Gloria before, even if it was in the dim and distant past. The workshop in the morning will get you on track and there will be an opportunity to do some ‘note-bashing’, if required.
After lunch, there will be a dress rehearsal where HPO will be seated and ready to play at 2.00pm. The concert in the evening will begin at 7.30pm.
If you are a keen singer, but cannot commit to a weekly session, why not join us for this wonderful Come and Sing day and evening concert on Saturday, 1st of March? For further information and ‘house-keeping’, click here.
If you are not a singer, but enjoy live classical music performances, we’d love to see you in our audience. Tickets are available now on the BCS website, starting at £15.00 (under 18s and students are free, but you must register for a ticket on the website). See the top of this page for a link to purchase tickets.
* The dynamic, talented and extremely experienced Music Director, Marcio da Silva, who also happens to be the MD of Billingshurst Choral Society (BCS) and the principal conductor of Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra (HPO).
* An incredible opportunity to perform with a professional orchestra and soloists.
* The chance to sing Puccini’s wonderfully operatic and passionately written Messa di Gloria.
* Perform that evening to an audience in the actual concert in the beautiful surroundings of St. Mary’s Parish Church which has an extraordinary history dating back to the 13th century. It is always warm (both temperature and friendly) and inviting with excellent acoustics.
Ideally, participants should be familiar with singing in a choir and it would be certainly advantageous, but not essential, to have sung Messa di Gloria before, even if it was in the dim and distant past. The workshop in the morning will get you on track and there will be an opportunity to do some ‘note-bashing’, if required.
After lunch, there will be a dress rehearsal where HPO will be seated and ready to play at 2.00pm. The concert in the evening will begin at 7.30pm.
If you are a keen singer, but cannot commit to a weekly session, why not join us for this wonderful Come and Sing day and evening concert on Saturday, 1st of March? For further information and ‘house-keeping’, click here.
If you are not a singer, but enjoy live classical music performances, we’d love to see you in our audience. Tickets are available now on the BCS website, starting at £15.00 (under 18s and students are free, but you must register for a ticket on the website). See the top of this page for a link to purchase tickets.
A First for BCS!
BCS is excited to announce that its next concert on 1st of March will take place at St. Mary’s, Horsham, a church with an extraordinary history dating back to the 13th century. This will be the first time in which the Choral Society has performed in this magnificent building in the centre of the town, with seating for at least 500 people.
BCS is delighted to share its crowd-pleasing programme with Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra (HPO) under the baton of maestro Marcio da Silva, who is also the Music Director of the Choral Society. The first half of the concert comprises the ever-popular Finlandia composed by Jean Sibelius and The Peer Gynt Suite No 1 composed by Edvard Grieg.
There will be a short interval, where light refreshments will be available followed by the wonderful Messa di Gloria composed by Giacomo Puccini, performed by BCS and accompanied by HPO with professional soloists.
BCS is also offering a Come and Sing opportunity in which keen singers can join our well-established and friendly choir for a morning workshop, the afternoon dress rehearsal with HPO and our professional soloists. They will then take part in the formal concert performance to an audience that evening, on Saturday 1st of March.
For more details about the Come and Sing see Come and Sing, for information about the format for the day, the cost and what is expected from those who Come and Sing this wonderful work.
Tickets for the concert are now available, see the button at the top of this page.
Tickets for the Come and Sing are now available on the Come and Sing information page.
