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BBC Singers Axed

BBC singers to be axed due to classical music cuts.

Newsletter Archive

March 2023 Newsletter

The fourth edition of our online newsletter - a collection of news and views from Choral Notes.

Features

Meet the Team: Daniel Gordon

Dan Gordon has been part of the HCS family for 20 years. Read on to find ot more about his musical background and life.

Features

The classical audience is ageing – right? Wrong.

Click to read some interesting statistics on the increase in classical music listening habits among younger generations.

Diary

Your chance to sing with HCS

Join HCS on March 25th for a Come and Sing event. Tickets are available here.

Society News

Dear Subscribers...

Laura Rawnsley reflects on her first 10 months as HCS Subscribers Secretary.

Diary

A Night with Beethoven

HCS is busy preparing for our upcoming spring concert.

Features

Meet the Team: Laura Bailie

Meet the newest member of the HCS team, Laura Bailie - recently appointed Musical Director of HCS Voices.

Features

Meet the Team: Sue Turnbull

Programme Officer Sue Turnbull shares some of her experiences from the last 10 years.

Music Notes

'There is comfort in continuity.'

A review of our recent Messiah performance by Steve Whitaker.

Society News

Young Musician 2023

Meet the Greenhead Young Musician competitors.

Features

Join the HCS Family - it could change your life for the better!

Rowena Burton met three of our new members and asked them all the same questions about their various HCS experiences so far.

Society News

Greenhead Young Musician Competition

HCS is thrilled to be sponsoring the Greenhead Young Musician Competition 2023.

Newsletter Archive

October 2022 Newsletter

The fourth edition of our online newsletter - a collection of articles to whet your appetite for the upcoming season.

Features

Be Uplifted with HCS

HCS Chair Jane Sargent welcomes you to the 2022/23 season.

Features

Subscribers - don't forget to claim your half-price guest ticket!

HCS is offering you, our subscribers, the opportunity to bring a friend to a concert at half the price!

Diary

Join us for our Autumn Concert

A delectable musical feast featuring Brahms, Mendelssohn and our commissioned works, the Pandemic Poems.

Diary

Dates for your Diary

Here you'll find the concert dates for the 2022/23 season.

Society News

Introducing Laura Rawnsley

We are thrilled to welcome Laura Rawnsley as our new Subcribers' Secretary! Here she encourages you to subscribe to our concert season.

Diary

Our Summer Concert is coming up this weekend!

HCS Associate Choral Director Ellie Slorach previews our upcoming summer concert, which she will be conducting Saturday, 25th June.

Features

Adam and HCS

HCS member Adam Robinson reflects on his time singing with us.

Diary

I saw new worlds

We are delighted to announce our upcoming summer concert.

Music Notes

Elaine Lee on HCS Voices

HCS Voices' most recent performance reviewed by long-standing HCS member, Elaine Lee.

Music Notes

At the drop of a hat...

Tenor Keiran White stepped in at the last minute to Evangelise for our performance of Bach St John Passion.

Features

Gentlemen in the Patent Library

Hubert Growler shows his softer side as he takes new Choral gentlemen under his wing, guiding them to the mysterious male changing room...