Welcome to Summer concert

Canterbury Cantata Trust

Canterbury Cantata's next concert on May 11th features the small chamber choir of the charity, Canterbury Cantata Trust founded by Grenville Hancox. The charity is going from strength to strength with an expanding national network of choirs for people with Parkinson's and other neurological illnesses and new associations being forged with august bodies such as Aldeburgh Music. Now directed by Emily Renshaw for more than a year, Canterbury Cantata's last outing was in January when our concert version of Dido and Aeneas was well received by a packed house at St Peter's Methodist Church with one member of the audience commenting:

 "As a Purcell afficionado, I was surprised by the high standard of the performance. I enjoyed the concert tremendously. Congratulations to Canterbury Cantata", Esteban Ruiz (from Seville).

On Saturday, we are happy to be singing some choral favourites from Parry, Lotti, Finzi and Lauridsen, the beautiful Blue Bird by Stanford and Gibbons' Silver Swan together with the delightful Shakespeare songs and sonnets by the jazzer George Shearing. In this light summery concert, we will also be joined by the choir master of St Stephen's, Steve Barker on the organ,  local talented wind group "Singing Reeds", Nicholas Thurston on bass and Lise Cribbin, our repetiteur.