Our Spirits Sing: St George's Singers on Tour

St Georges Singers, Poynton

One of the most highly regarded choirs in the North West, St George’s Singers, will be on tour in Lincolnshire at the end of May with a kaleidoscope of song ranging from sacred to secular and madrigal to jazz. Among the varied works in the programme are many well-known pieces such as Vaughan William: Three Shakespeare Songs, Thomas Morley: Now is the Month of Maying, Ward Swingle: It was a lover and his lass, Rachmaninov: Bogoroditsye Dyevo, and Gorecki: Totus tuus. Also included are delightful and accessible works inspired by Shakespeare and composed by Emma Lou Diemer, Nils Lindberg and Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, and which will be heard and enjoyed for the first time by many listeners. St George’s Singers was formed in 1956 at St George’s Church, Poynton, Cheshire with 23 founding members drawn from the local community and has grown in the last 60 years to be a choir of around 100 members performing concerts in such prestigious venues as Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, and the Royal Northern College of Music with world-class soloists such as Sir Willard White, James Gilchrist, Mark Padmore, Christopher Purves, Rebecca Outram and Jacqui Dankworth. St George’s Singers is now recognised as one of the most enterprising and innovative choirs in the North of England and have been described as able to “stand alongside the Hallé Choir as the North Wests’s leading ensemble.