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WelcomeThe English Arts Chorale is an ambitious, auditioned choir of some 70 members based in Reigate, Surrey. Founded by its conductor, Leslie Olive, in 1980, the EAC has broadcast for BBC radio, sung at the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican, and worked with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, under conductors including Klaus Tennstedt and Sir Roger Norrington. Its soloists have included a galaxy of highly-regarded names including Sir Willard White, Susan Gritton, Sheila Armstrong, and Ian Bostridge. It has also sung Messiah in a muddy field (at the Greenbelt Festival), Carmina Burana in a public park (at Reigate Summer Music Festival), and all three Elgar oratorios (The Apostles, The Kingdom, and The Dream of Gerontius) in the same week. It has sung Vaughan Williams' Pilgrim's Progress in Dorking and A Sea Symphony at Snape Maltings and The Dream of Gerontius in the spectacular Smetana Hall in Prague. It has been coached by Jeremy Jackman, Robert Dean and its president Brian Kay. It has raised thousands of pounds for charity, and ran one of the first choral training programmes for adult beginners, introducing hundreds to choral singing. The English Arts Chorale routinely performs at least one major work per season entirely from memory, creating performances of immense energy and focus. |
The new seasonThe Chorale continues its busy schedule in 2011-12 with a performance of Rachmaninov’s Vespers in St Martin-in-the-Fields, as part of the Brandenburg Autumn Festival, its annual performance of the Messiah in St Mary’s, Reigate, and concerts in St John’s College, Cambridge and St Paul’s, Chichester, which will include new repertoire, such as Howells’ Requiem and pieces by Arvo Pärt. |
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