Please join or rejoin us this summer to sing!
Musique-Cordiale in Kent:
Concerts 29 July – 3 August 2022
This year’s magnum opus will be:
Gioachino Rossini‘s Petite messe solennelle (Little solemn mass)
(not notably little or solemn, actually!
We would again like to invite and welcome good and/or experienced singers to join or rejoin the Musique-Cordiale Festival Choir in Kent, GB this summer. Please contact us if you are interested (or can recommend others!)
Rehearsals start at 2:30 PM on Thursday 28 July.
To be conducted by Graham Ross, Music Director of Clare College, Cambridge, whom we are thrilled to have back to direct and inspire the choir and orchestra for another year, with soloists to be announced, to be accompanied by piano & accordion, to be performed in Doddington Place Gardens – with a little amplification and cover for performers, as required.
Music: Bärenreiter edition, if possible please. (Other repertoire info to follow).
Other works for the choir this time:
After due consultation, Pippa and Graham have decided upon an a cappella programme:
- Sethus Calvisius Singet dem Herrn
- Vaughan Williams Serenade to music with piano & violin
- J S Bach Singet dem Herrn
We hope this will please our singers and audiences alike. The Calvisius was Graham’s idea and the Serenade came from Owen Hanmer in this, the VW centenary. How could we argue?!? We will provide details of how to obtain this music soon.
Please enrol ASAP! And, especially, book accommodation too. Enrolment deadline 10 June 2022
First rehearsal: Newnham church, ME9 0LL, starting at 2:30PM on Thursday 28 July,
followed by welcome party & dinner in Newnham.
Preliminary CHOIR INFORMATION was here. Late May email to past and recent choir follows. PLEASE ENCOURAGE GOOD SINGERS TO JOIN US!.
Summary enrolment information for the choir appears here – with updates. Full enrolment/pricing details can be found on the enrolment form below)
CHOIR participation fee: £200 (see discounts) + Member/Friend subscription
7-day evening meal deal: £17See enrolment form for details and options. Please try to find and book your own accommodation this year (we will try to help you). Accompanying partners and friends welcome – please pay just for membership & meals!
In 2022, our 18th year, we regret that we were not yet ready (planning has to begin the previous autumn) to return to France this summer (though some of our younger musicians and organisers are on hand to try to achieve that in 2023. Instead, we are following the pattern set In 2021, when we re-emerged… with a smaller but no less exciting mini-festival, which took place mainly out of doors in Kent GB, 29 July-5 August 2021including Mozart Requiem & Vivaldi Gloria
(and a lovely varied concert in Faversham in December)
So, for this year, we hope that you will now join or re-join us for rehearsals, concerts and much conviviality, 28 July – 4 August 2022.
2022 Summer Choir booking form is BELOW:
Please enrol ASAP (and please reserve your accommodation independently ASAP too).
closing date for choir enrolment and payment: 10 June 2022
Meanwhile, if you are free and nearby, do consider coming to our exciting special Jubilee concert on 4 June 2022, featuring the Musique-Cordiale Festival Orchestra, conducted by Graham Ross and some of our favorite soloists and tunes in a lovely familiar setting!
Any problems or questions? Please contact us:
jonathan@musique-cordiale (+44 7970 185910) OR pippa@musique-cordiale.com (+44 7976 301443)
HISTORY
As usual since 2005, Musique Cordiale consisted (in its reduced form in Britain in 2020 and 2021) of a professional orchestra and soloists, performing a variety of other works as well as accompanying the experienced but largely-amateur choir under the professional direction of conductor Graham Ross. But as in previous (and, we hope, future) years, the whole ensemble has not yielded completely to the Covid-19 pandemic and continued to perform major choral masterpieces, usually in both International Musique Cordiale Festival in the Pays de Fayence in southern France and Musique-Cordiale in Kent in England. Below is information from the most recent full festival in France:
In 2018 it was Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) …and in summer 2019, the big choral work was Handel’s SAUL. In 2020, we had a whole new set of choral works for the choir … but, following the cancellation of the 2020 festival in France, we managed only a single outdoor concert – and 2 days of rehearsal in beautiful sunny (yes) Kent, GB – but we managed to produce a memorable performance of the Brahms Requiem in September 2020.
For details of the 2020 Festival and arrangements/enrolment for the choir, singing the Brahms Requiem
plus other choral works and an exciting a cappella programme*, please follow this LINK
PERFORMERS, Summer Festival 2019
Conductors / musical direction
- James Lowe
- Graham Ross
ORCHESTRA 2019
Violin
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- Colette Overdijk (leader)
- Judith de Haas (leader)
- Rachel Bunn
- Eliza Burkitt*
- Jane Gillie
- Briona Mannion*
- Edward McCullagh
- Steve Rowlinson
- Alice Ruffle
- Suzanne Swainson
- Gabrielle Sutcliffe
- Ariane Todes
Viola
- James Swainson
- Ian Anderson
- Joseph Fisher
- Cathrien van Bunningen
- Hugo Haag*
- Gatien Leray*
Cello
- Jane Friend
- Sophie Haynes
- James Heathcote
- Finn Mannion*
- Özgür Deniz Kaya*
Double bass
- Sean Law
- Martin Ludenbach
Flute
- Trond Magne Brekka
- Ruth Harrison
Oboe
- James Hulme
- Grace Scott-Deucher
Clarinet
- Stephen Williams
- Rachel Coe
Bassoon
- Angharad Thomas
- Molly Nielsen
Horn
- Peter Ryan
- Alex Regan
Trumpet
- Chloë Abbot
- Clara Hyder
- David Saudek
Trombone
- Michael Struck-Schloen
- Peter Thornton
- Ian Sankey
Harp
- Michela Zanoni
Percussion
- Tristan Fry
Piano
- Rebecca Taylor
- Richard Leach
- Toby Hession
MUSIQUE CORDIALE CHŒUR

Morning choir rehearsals
Sopranos
- Celia Bangham
- Caroline Capper
- Anick Cohen-Salmon
- Sophie Darlow
- Josephine Herrlinger
- Jane Hickey
- Bärbel von Kalckreuth
- Regula Obrecht
- Carole Radford
- Susie Ross
- Amanda Salmon
- Melissa Scott
- Marijke Weiss-Schaber
- Rosie Wright
- Cristina Ziener von Bauer
Altos
- Susanne Angern
Sarah Bryant
- Maggie Donnelly
- Lavinia Ferguson
- Jessica Hopkins
- Catherine LeParmentier
- Caroline Mustill
- Annie Oakes
- Pippa Pawlik
- Sue Peppe
- Isabelle Rekacewicz-Richard
- Jill Saudek
- Curzon Tussaud
- Bettina Weiss-Schaber
Tenors
- Paul Allatt
- Benoït Dayot
- Michael Johnston
- Wolf von Kalckreuth
- Richard Street
- Basil Strong
- Jeremy Warbrick
- Robert Ward
- David Ylla-Somers
Basses
- Alan Brittain
- Alain Deïssard
- Paul Fisher
- Owen Hanmer
- Toby Hession
- Stewart Jones
- Gavin King-Smith
- Hervé Lagaert
- David Lowe
- Andrew Pearson
- Andrew Smith
- Rudolf Wehage
- Richard Wynn-Jones
- Soloists
Dima Bawab
Isabel Pfefferkorn
Emily Vine
Frederick LongJulian Gregory
Michael Johnston
Jessica Hopkins
Adele Pons - Jazz
Isla van Hout
Jetse de Jong
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