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2013  
February 1 at Kingsbridge Community College Fundraising concert with local choirs 'Stanborough Chorus' and 'Musaic' joining the Alvington Singers.
February 9 at St Thomas of Canterbury, Dodbrooke, Kingsbridge Choral Workshop - Fauré's Requiem and Rutter's "I will Lift Up Mine Eyes"
2012  
March 3 at Kingsbridge Community College Choral workshop - Handel's Messiah
March 9 at St Edmunds Church, Kingsbridge Choral music spanning the centuries
March 24 at All Saints Church, Malborough Joint concert with the Jane Lilley Singers from Bath
May 25 at All Saints Church, Malborough

Choral Classics, including Handel's Zadok the Priest, 'Dona Nobis Pacem' from Bach's B minor mass, Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei, and choruses from Handel's Messiah

Dec 12 at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

Dec 14 at St George's Church, Dittisham

Dec 19 at Dodbrooke Church, Kingsbridge

Christmas music, including, "This Endris Night" by local composer Ed Welch, Grieg's Ave Maris Stella, John Ireland's The Holy Boy and Elizabeth Poston's Jesus Christ the Apple Tree.
2011  
February at Kingsbridge Methodist Church Choral workshop - Mozart's Requiem
April 7 at St Edmunds Church, Kingsbridge 'Spring into Summer' - Jazz songs, madrigals, folk songs, Gilbert & Sullivan
June 4 at St Michael's Church, Stokenham

June 8 at Holy Trinity Salcombe

Mozart - Requiem, Laudate Dominum, Ave Verum Corpus; Rachmaninov - Ave Maria; settings by Alastair Durden of 'Love bade me welcome' (George Herbert) and 'As rivers meet the sea' (Christina Rossetti)

Dec 7 at Dodbrooke Church, Kingsbridge

Dec 14 at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

Seasonal music from the 15thC to the present day, including John Rutter's 'What Sweeter Music' and Walford Davies' setting of 'O Little Town of Bethlehem'.
   
2010  
February 27 at Kingsbridge Methodist Church Choral workshop - Gounod's Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile (St Cecilia Mass)
March 13 at Thurlestone Parish Hall Works by Rutter, Bach, Franck, Mozart

May 8 at Buckfast Abbey

May 14 at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

Gounod - St Cecilia Mass; Brahms - 'How lovely is thy dwelling place'; Dvorak - 'Tui nati vulnerati' (from Stabat Mater); Bruckner- motet 'Os justi'; Fauré - 'Cantique de Jean Racine'
Jun 12 at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

(part of Salcombe Festival)

Dyson - 'Four Songs for Sailors', part-songs by Sullivan and Sterndale Bennett, plus arrangements of 'Annie's Song' and 'O Susanna'
December 8 at at St Thomas of Canterbury, Dodbrooke

December 15 at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

Christmas carols and readings, including Britten's Ceremony of Carols.
2009
Feb 28 at Kingsbridge Methodist Church Choral Workshop - Lux Aeterna by Morten Lauridsen, and selected choruses from Haydn's The Creation and The Seasons
Mar 28 at St Michael and All Angels, Stokenham Joint concert with Jane Lilley Singers of Bath
May 2 at All Saints, Malborough Morten Lauridsen - Lux Aeterna; Purcell - Chacony for Strings; Handel - Chandos Anthem No. 9; Haydn - 'Come Gentle Spring', from The Seasons; Mendelssohn - 'O for the wings of a dove'
June 13 at Holy Trinity, Salcombe 'A Festival of Song', including Johann Strauss - 'Tales from the Vienna Woods'
June 17 at St Andrew's Church, East Allington Songs from the show Fiddler on the Roof, with pupils from East Allington School
December 9 at St Thomas of Canterbury, Dodbrooke

December 12 at Sherford Village Hall

December 16 at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

A Christmas Miscellany with a West Country flavour - incl. carols by Carl Rütti and music by Mendelssohn and Samuel Scheidt
2008
Apr 23 at Petroc's Cburch, Harford

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Apr 25 at Dodbrooke Church, Kingsbridge

Spring Concert - music by English composers Vaughan Williams, Holst, Finzi and Rutter, featuring John Rutter's Feel the Spirit - a cycle of spirituals

Jun 14 at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

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Jun 20 at St. Michael and All Angels, Stokenham

Rossini's Petite Messe Solenelle, and motets by Bruckner and Rachmaninov

Dec 10 at St Michael's Church, Strete

Dec 12 at St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Dodbrooke

Dec 17 at Holy Trinity Salcombe

A Christmas Cornucopia - a selection of music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams and others, with carols and readings
2007
Apr 28 at Malborough Parish Church

Beethoven’s Mass in C and short choruses by Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Morten Lauridsen

Jul 6 at Dittisham Parish Church

A selection of songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, John Rutter’s jazz-inspired Birthday Madrigals, some American spirituals and jazz classics

Jul 8 at Stokenham Parish Church

Participation in a grand Jazz Concert, singing some of John  Rutter’s Birthday Madrigals, songs from Cats (Lloyd Webber), etc.

Oct 6 at Thurlestone Parish Hall

Part-songs by Grieg and Elgar, and songs from Gilbert & Sullivan

Dec 12th at St. Martin's, Sherford

& Dec 19th at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

Christmas Concerts featuring The Time of Christemas by Czech composer Antonin Tučapský

The choir joined forces in 2007 with a choir from the French town of Cabourg, Salcombe’s twin town, and hopes to do the same again.
2006
Feb 10 at Dodbrooke Parish Church Choral Evensong including the anthem Greater Love by John Ireland

Apr 28 at Ivybridge Methodist Church

& Apr 29 at Stokenham Parish Church

Fauré’s Requiem and Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man with instrumental ensemble

Jun 10 at Salcombe Parish Church

Fauré’s Requiem and Vivaldi’s Gloria with small orchestra sung in conjunction with visiting choir from Cabourg (France)

Oct 20 at Sherford Village Hall

After-dinner entertainment of light/humorous/show songs

Dec 13 at St Edmunds, Kingsbridge

Holy Trinity, Salcombe

& Dec 20 at Holy Trinity, Salcombe

Christmas concerts featuring the carols of John Rutter and the poetry of John Betjeman

Other major works performed have been John Rutter’s Requiem; Haydn’s Te Deum; Mozart’s 'Coronation’ Mass; Handel’s Coronation Anthems – Zadok The Priest, The King Shall Rejoice;  Bach’s ‘Peasant’ Cantata.

As well as John Rutter, other contemporary composers whose work has been included in the choir’s programmes are the American, Morten Lauridsen, and the Swiss, Carl Rütti. The choir’s musical director, Alastair Durden, also does a lot of arrangements specially for the choir.

   

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