PROJECTS AND RECORDINGS
UPCOMING CONCERTS:
Brighton16 & Worthing Philharmonic Orchestra
Sat 5th April, 2025 @ 7:30pm
St George's Church, Worthing
Brighton16 and WPO collaborate for the first time, concluding with a performance of Durufle's Requiem (1961 edition) with mezzo soprano Frances Rowberry. In addition to a solo orchestral item, Brighton16 will perform Mass in G Minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Brighton16 'To The Sea...'
Sat 7th June, 2025 @ 7:30pm
St Paul's Church, Brighton
Brighton16 present a stunning array of choral motets and arrangements of music on the subject of the sea.
The recital includes unaccompanied choral works by Vaughan Williams, Holst, Delius, Parry, Andrew, Burke, Campbell, Grainger, and Ireland. Our programme concludes with a rare UK performance of 'Canticum Calamatatis Maritimae' by Mantyjarvi, a work written in memory of the survivors of the 1994 sinking of the MS Estonia.
Brighton16 & Phoenix Big Band
Sat 27th Sept, 2025 @ 7:30pm
Chichester Cathedral, Sussex
Brighton16 and Phoenix Big Band collaborate again for another chance to hear Duke Ellington's 'Sacred Concert'. Together with tap dancer Lee Payne, this should be a fantastic evening of choral music, big band music and live dance. In addition to the Ellington, Phoenix Big Band will perform a number of jazz standards, and Brighton16 will be perform the Five Spirituals by Tippett.
PREVIOUS CONCERTS:
Brighton16 & Phoenix Big Band
Sat 8th June 2024, 7:30pm
St Nicholas Church, Arundel (West Sussex)
Join us for a high-energy performance of Duke Ellington's sacred music for chamber choir, tap dancer and big band, paired with some beautiful unaccompanied spirituals and instrumental jazz standards...
Five Spirituals by Tippett (from A Child of Our Time)
Sacred Concert by Ellington, arr. Hoybye and Pedersen
Tickets £15 available here: https://fienta.com/brighton16-phoenix-big-band
Brighton16 'Lamenti & Weh'
Sat 23rd March 2024, 5pm
St Michael & All Angels Church, Brighton
Join us for an Eastertide programme of choral motets featuring works from early and late Italian and German Baroque masters. Guest artists are Petra Hajduchova (harpsichord) and Joe Giddey (cello).
Carissimi - Christus factus est
Scarlatti - Stabat Mater
Schutz - Selig sind die Toten
Kuhnau - Tristis est anima mea
Bach - Komm Jesu, Komm
Free admission (Pay What You Want). Refreshments will be available for a donation during the event.
Brighton16 & Phoenix Big Band
Sat 17th June, 7pm
St Michael & All Angels Church, Brighton
Join us for a rare performance of Duke Ellington's sacred music for chamber choir and big band, paired with some beautiful unaccompanied spirituals and various instrumental jazz standards...
Five Spirituals by Tippett (from A Child of Our Time)
Sacred Concert by Ellington, arr. Hoybye and Pedersen
Free admission (Pay What You Want). Refreshments will be available for a donation during the event.
Brighton16 'Towards Expressionism'
Saturday 9th July 2022, 7pm
St Michael & All Angels Church, Brighton
Stunning programme of rarely performed and challenging chamber choir works exploring the Expressionist movement.
Rheinberger Abendlied, Brahms Warum ist Der licht gegeben, Smyth Komm susser Tod, Bruckner Christus factus est, Strauss Der Abend, Reger Schweigen and Schoenberg Three Folksong Arrangements.
Free admission. Donations collected on behalf of local charities.
Brighton16 'Tales of Love' (world premiere, new English translation of Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes)
Sat 4th June 2022, 5pm
Brighthelm Centre Auditorium, Brighton
Come and here the world premiere performance of 'Tales of Love', a new modern English translation by Matt Jelf and Christopher Goldsack of the Liebeslieder Waltzer by Brahms.
Tales of Love Op.52 by Brahms, English translation by Jelf
Tales of Love Op.65 by Brahms, English translation by Goldsack
Free admission. Donations collected on behalf of local charities.
Brighton16 '20th Century Praise'
Saturday 8th February 2020, 2pm
St Michael & All Angels Church, Brighton
Sacred programme spanning music from 1905 - 1995: Stanford Three Motets, Bainton And I Saw A New Heaven, Britten Rejoice in the Lamb, Finzi Lo the Full Final Sacrifice, Durufle Quatre motets sue des themes gregoriens, Gorecki Totus Tuus, Tavener Song For Athene and Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium.
Free admission. Donations collected on behalf of local charities.
Brighton16 Choral Evensong
Saturday 14th December 2019, 5pm
Church of the Good Shepherd, Brighton
Smith Responses
Stanford in C
Britten Hymn to the Virgin
Free admission. Donations collected on behalf of local charities.
Howells & Martin - Choral Masterpieces
Friday 31st March + Saturday 1st June 2019, 19.30
St Michael's All Angels, Brighton, BN1 3FS
Howells Requiem
Howells Take him, earth, for cherishing
Martin Mass for Double Choir
This concert will be part
of the Brighton Fringe Festival 2019
£9 adults, £8 concessions.
20th Century Part Songs
Saturday 9th Feb, 2019
St Michael's All Angels, Brighton
Parry Songs of Farewell 1. My soul there is a country, 3. Never weather beaten sail, 4. There is an old belief
Finzi Seven Poems by Robert Bridges 3. My spirit sang all day, 4. Clear and gentle stream, 5. Nightingales, 7. Wherefore tonight so full of care
Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs 1. Full Fathom Five, 2. The cloud capp'd towers, 3. Over hill, over dale and The Lovers Ghost
Elgar My love dwelt in a Northern land and Deep in my soul
Delius To be sung of a summer's night on the water (Part 1)
Free admission. Donations collected on behalf of local charities.