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David Kirby-Ashmore is our Musical director. He leads and coaches the choir with the aim to improve and develop all members’ singing and to take part in concerts and competitions. If you are interested in doing solos, please make yourself known to David.
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Mozart composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers. |
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Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist who composed in the romantic period. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt. (which includes Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King), and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces. |
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Holst wrote almost 200 catalogued compositions, including orchestral suites, operas, ballets, concertos, choral hymns, and songs.
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Gounod was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette. |
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Female voice choir based in Sonning |
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Composers of music we have in our repertoire include Monteverdi, Gounod, Grieg, East and Holst. Additional details of the works of these composers can be found at the links below (just click on the composer’s name). |
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Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. |
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Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers. His harmonic and melodic language affected how harmony was later taught. |
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Edward Benjamin Britten was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He produced important music in such varied genres as orchestral, choral, solo vocal, chamber and instrumental, as well as film music. |
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Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. |
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Sir Edward William Elgar was an English composer. He is known for such works as the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, The Dream of Gerontius, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed oratorios, chamber music and songs. |
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John Milford Rutter CBE is a British composer, conductor, editor, arranger and record producer, mainly of choral music |
