Petersfield Musical Festival: open choral workshop – Beethoven Mass in C and Handel Coronation Anthems
Directed by Paul Spicer
Accompanist: Mark Dancer
Bookings open. Price £0 to £22.
Presented by Petersfield Musical Festival.
Provisional timetable for the day:
10 am Doors open
10.30 am-11.30 am Workshop session 1
11.30 am-11.50 am Refreshment break
11.50 am-1 pm Workshop session 2
1 pm-2 pm Lunch
2 pm-3.15 pm Workshop session 3
3.30 pm-4.30 pm Workshop session 4, including informal performance.
Paul Spicer will be leading a workshop on the repertoire for the 2027 Festival’s main choral concert. It will feature two of Handel’s great Coronation Anthems: Zadok the Priest, and The King shall Rejoice, together with Beethoven’s Mass in C.
Performing Beethoven in 2027 also celebrates the 200th anniversary of his death in 1827. Southern Pro Musica will also be performing Mozart’s Paris Symphony, No.31.
The workshop will be an opportunity to study a piece that will be sung in the 2027 Petersfield Musical Festival.
Paul Spicer is one of the leading choral conductors in the UK. He is a conducting teacher, composer, writer, lecturer and a specialist in 20th century British music. Paul has been Festival Conductor since 2005. He is best known as a choral conductor, partly through the many CDs he made with the Finzi Singers for Chandos Records and more recently with the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Chori for Somm Records. Paul has been a regular guest conductor with the BBC Singers and is in great demand for his choral workshops, including the choral course he runs under his foundation, The English Choral Experience.
Petersfield Methodist Church is two minutes’ walk from the station, where there is a car park (entrance on Frenchman’s Road) with ample parking at the weekend. Please bring your own lunch – or visit one of the many nearby cafes. Tea and coffee will be provided, on arrival and during the morning break.
