Leslie Robinson, Publicity Officer for the William Bryd Singers, talks to us about the group's crowdfunding campaign to bring Bach back to the Stoller Hall for Christmas.
Many of you reading this may well have been at the William Byrd's last concert in the Stoller Hall in April 2022, when we performed the wonderful 'St Matthew Passion' to a packed hall. What an undertaking that was with the specialist 18th Century Sinfonia Orchestra, professional soloists, the Byrds in superb voice and a children's choir, singing their hearts out.
A project of this size required a lot of finance. One of the ways we achieved this was by launching a crowdfunder scheme, with a wide variety of rewards. This was so generously contributed to by our friends and supporters, who not only pledged money (we raised more than £6,000!) in return for one of the fabulous rewards on offer, but also came to the concert.
For this year, we have launched another crowdfunder with rewards to support our concert singing Bach's 'Christmas Oratorio' (parts one, two, five and six) on Sunday 14 December 2025 in the Stoller Hall. Once again, we will be accompanied by the 18th Century Sinfonia Orchestra and a lineup of international soloists, including Andrew Slater, Taylor London, Ruairi Bowen and Tim Morgan.
The crowdfunder is once again be hosted on the Crowdfunder website and has gone live on 21 September, with a goal to raise £5,000. To find out more about what rewards we have on offer, sign up to our mailing list. We'd be very grateful if you could contribute, and more importantly, we'd love if you would come to our concert - ticket available from the Stoller Hall ticket office.
We look forward to seeing you on 14 December and thank you in advance for your contribution to this exciting project.
If you want to get ahead of the game, find out more and see what rewards are on offer then sign up to our mailing list for regular news or follow us on Facebook or Instagram. More importantly, we’d love you to come to the concert. Tickets are available from the Stoller Hall ticket office.
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