Upcoming Concerts

Enthusiasts in Leicester and Leicestershire have been enjoying our concerts for 95 years. We find the heart of classics from Bach to Rachmaninov, the soul of C20 English works by Vaughan Williams, Finzi & Britten, and the profound in C21 composers like Gjeilo & Whitacre. Whatever your taste you will find a warm welcome, and wonderful music to enjoy.

Eternal Peace - Saturday 30th November 2024

7.30pm

St James the Greater
London Road
Leicester
LE2 1NE

Music including:

Maurice Duruflé – Requiem
Marcel Dupré – Motets (op.9)
Frank Martin – Mass for double choir (extracts)

Conductor: Richard Laing
Organ: Simon Hogan (Organist – Southwark Cathedral)

Mezzo-soprano: Iona Kaye
Baritone: Samuel Snowden

Both appear with permission of the Royal Northern College of Music.

Tickets in advance from choir members or TryBooking (admin fee 5%).

Full price tickets in advance: £20.

Concessions: Sixth formers, students and people with disabilities: £5 in advance and on the door.

Accompanied U16s: FREE.

Full price tickets on the door: £23. Card and cash accepted.

Marcel Dupre Saint Sulpice

We have a programme of fabulous music for you, all under the baton of our inspiring Music Director, Richard Laing. Duruflé’s Requiem probably needs little introduction: beautiful, impressionistic, modal harmonies forming a glowing support to ancient plainsong-inspired melody lines.

This work will be performed in memoriam Graham Wright, a former Chair of LBC for 15 years and long serving singing member, who sadly passed away earlier this year.

Also in the mix will be equally rewarding music by Frank Martin and Marcel Dupré.

The choir have been captivated and enchanted by the warmth, serenity and passion of Frank Martin’s Mass for unaccompanied Double Choir, a work which he described as ‘a matter entirely between God and myself’ – probably a reason why it lay neglected in a drawer for over forty years until it was rediscovered and performed in 1963.

Marcel Dupré (Pictured left) was a virtuoso organist and composer. His setting of the Four Motets Op 9 was originally written for choir with two organs. We suspect that’s why Richard has engaged Simon Hogan (from Southwark Cathedral – Pictured below) to accompany us on just the one organ as he always seems to perform as though he is equipped with at least four hands and four feet!

We continue to support outstanding young artists in launching their careers and will be joined, both in the Requiem and in their own cameo performances, by two prize-winning postgraduate soloists from the Royal Northern College of Music: Iona Kaye (mezzo soprano) and Samuel Snowden (baritone).

Simon Hogan – Is a Sub-Organist and Assistant Director of Music at Southwark Cathedral, a post which he combines with being Organist to the Cathedral Singers of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and a portfolio of freelance work in and around London.

simon hogan LBC

LBC Rising Stars

Our new LBC Rising Stars initiative will be offering a platform for young, gifted musicians from across the country. We’re thrilled to have two vocal soloists for this concert, both first class honours graduates from the Royal Northern College of Music. As well as their solos in the Duruflé Requiem they will be delighting us in works by our namesake, J.S Bach.

Iona Kaye LBC Xmas 2024

Iona Kaye is a mezzo-soprano who graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music with first-class honours. She is delighted to be a Song Easel Young Artist and Boyne Music Festival Young Artist this year, winner of the RNCM English Song Competition (2023) and third prizewinner in The Dorothy Richardson English Song Prize (2022 & 2023).

Samuel Snowden is a Welsh baritone, recently graduating with Distinction in his Master of Music from the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM). In 2024 he was an Opera Holland Park Young Artist and has many operatic and key solo choral roles to his credit across Wales and the North West.

Snowden Samuel - Aug 2021 LBC Xmas 2024
rebecca burden cellist LBC xmas 2024

Cellist, Rebecca Burden, soloist in the Duruflé, graduated with a Masters with Distinction from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire and now has an exciting career as a soloist, chamber and orchestral player.

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