| Spring Concert: Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, Saturday 5 April 2025, 7pm at Christ Church, St Leonards |
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Tickets are now on sale for our spring concert!
Dvořák: Stabat Mater
A poignantly beautiful portrayal of Mary's feelings as she watches her son Jesus die on the cross. Deeply personal, Dvořák's empathetic setting of this sorrowful poem was intimately bound up with the tragic loss of his own young children, yet ends with a radiant vision of paradise in the final movement.
Hastings Philharmonic Choir
Helen May (soprano)
Julia Piñon (contralto)
Leonel Pinheiro (tenor)
Robert Winslade Anderson (bass)
Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Marcio da Silva
Book online via our website: www.hastingsphilchoir.org.uk/springconcert2025 or at The Bookkeeper, 1a King's Road, St Leonards (open Thurs-Sat)
£22.50/£18/£13.50
Students, under-18s, JSA/Universal Credit recipients £5/pay what you can
All advance ticket sales will end at 11am on 5 April, after which any remaining tickets will be sold on the door. Book ahead to avoid disappointment!
There will be an Easter raffle during the interval with chocolate egg prizes.
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Summer concert: Saturday 5 July, 7pm at Christ Church, St Leonards
Put the date in your diary! Our summer concert features two meditative modern choral works by Arvo Pärt and Ola Gjeilo alongside a warmly Romantic work for strings by Arnold Schoenberg.
Northern Lights
Arvo Pärt: Berliner Messe
Ola Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass
Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht
Hastings Philharmonic Choir
with Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Marcio da Silva
Tickets will be available during June.
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| Plans for 2025-26 concert season |
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We have some exciting plans for 2025–26, when HPC will join HPO in celebrating their tenth season, revisiting some of our biggest and most successful choral and orchestral performances of the last ten years. Here’s an outline of our plans as they stand currently:
Thursday 20 November 2025, White Rock Theatre
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, ‘Choral’
Adrian Sutton: New work
Our very first concert with HPO, in 2016, featured Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, with its rousing choral last movement, and a new work by Philip O’Meara. The new work planned for this season's concert has been specially commissioned by friends of the HPO. Adrian Sutton is a renowned composer of music for the theatre, including music for the National Theatre’s production of War Horse in 2007. In recent years he has composed solely for the concert hall. His music has been described as ‘lyrically expressive, instantly communicative’.
Saturday 21 March 2026, Christ Church
Orff: Carmina Burana
with 2-piano and percussion accompaniment
A work that we last sang in April 2019, when it was enthusiastically received by audience and reviewers alike.
July 2026, precise date and venue tbc
Verdi: Requiem
We performed this work, with HPO at the White Rock Theatre as part of our 90th anniversary celebrations in May 2018 and look forward to singing it again.
Plus, our annual carol concert will take place on Saturday 13 December 2025, Christ Church
We hope you’ll agree that there is much to look forward to in this listing and it will be lovely to perform some of these favourite works again! Please pencil the dates into your diaries now. We look forward to seeing you at the concerts!
If you would like to join the choir to sing in these concerts, please visit www.hastingsphilchoir.org.uk/membership for further information about membership. We now have two types of membership: regular membership for which you sign up for the year, or a visiting singer category that enables experienced singers to sign up on a project/per concert basis.
Photo © Peter Mould: Hastings Philharmonic Choir performing Carmina Burana at St Mary in the Castle, April 2019
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