Dodecantus
Concerts, Tours and Services
2025
Saturday 29th November - St. Michael and All Angels, Urchfont
From Rememberance into Christmas
Reena Esmail - A Winter Breviary
William Byrd - Agnus Dei
Douglas Guest - For the Fallen
Michael Castle - In Flanders Fields
Paul Edwards - And I saw a new heaven
John Tavener - The Lamb
Paul Edwards - No Small Wonder
Jingle Bells and some other jolly Christmas numbers
Wednesday 27th to Friday 29th August - Lincoln Cathedral
Choral Evensong
Thursday 28th August - Lincoln Cathedral
Chilcott - Nidaros Mass
Chilcott - The Dove and The Olive Leaf
Gjeilo - Evening Prayer
Palestrina - Sicut Cervus
Part - The Deer's Cry
Craig Mcleish - Crossing the Bar
Parry - My Soul there is a Country
Gibbons - Almighty and Everlasting God
Friday 1st August - St. John the Baptist, Little Somerford
Chilcott - Nidaros Mass
Chilcott - The Dove and The Olive Leaf
Gjeilo - Evening Prayer
Palestrina - Sicut Cervus
Part - The Deer's Cry
Loerner and Lowe - Medley from My Fair Lady
Craig Mcleish - Crossing the Bar
Parry - My Soul there is a Country
Trenet - Beyond the Sea
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water
Gibbons - Almighty and Everlasting God
Gibbons - Second Service Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
Sunday 29th June - St. Peter's, Marlborough
Choral Evensong
Friday 11th April - St. Mary's, Marlborough - for LoveKidsMeals Marlborough
A collaboration with Quattro Saxes
Rutter - Requiem
Chilcott - The Dove and The Olive Leaf
Gjeilo - Evening Prayer
Palestrina - Sicut Cervus
Part - The Deer's Cry
2024
Saturday 16th November - St. Michael's, Aldbourne - for Amber Foundation
Sunday 17th November - St. John the Baptist, Wroughton - for Prospect
Hospice
An evening of French Music
Beyond the Sea
Gounod/Bach - Ave Maria
Ravel - Nicolette
Faure - Pavane
Debussy - Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans
Castegnet - Messe Breve
Faure - Requiem
August 14th - 16th - Ely Cathedral - Choir in residence
Choral Evensongs
July 28th - Pear Tree, Purton
Celebration with friends, family and supporters for our 20th year
Saturday 8th June - St. Peter's, Marlborough - for RNLI
Sunday 9th June - Avebury Chapel - for Avebury Chapel
Trad. Shanty - Drunken Sailor
Trad. - I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
Wood - Full Fathom Five
Trad. - Dark Eyed Sailor
Trad. - Swansea Town
Trad. - The Keel Row
Emma Storr, Keely Hodgson - Shannon's Song
John Brammell - The Duke of Northumberland
Bob Chilcott - Come Back, Sun Moon Sea and Stars
Charles Trennet - Beyond The Sea
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Rick Birley - Dance To Your Daddy
Craig McLeish - Eternal Father Strong to Save, Crossing The Bar
Jussi Chydenius - Sound Of he Sea, Deep In The Night, On A Windy Day
Saturday 2nd March - St. Giles's Church, Tockenham
Will Todd - Jazz Missa Brevis
Rutter - A Sprig of Thyme
Rutter - Ukranian Prayer
Rick Birley - Agnus Dei from Short Mass
Gibbons - Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
Macmillan - Ave Maris Stella
Stravinsky - Ave Maria
2023
Saturday 18th November - St. Michael's Church, Aldbourne
Haydn - Little Organ Mass
Lauridson - O Nata Lux
Poulenc - Le Soir De Neige
Durufle - Quatre Motet
Byrd - Kyrie and Agnus Dei from 4 part mass
Shearing - Songs and Sonnets
September 1st-3rd - Wells Cathedral - Choir in residence
July 16th - St. Nicholas Church, Bromham
Choral Evensong for Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis by Herbert Sumsion
June 3rd - St. Michael and All Angels, Urchfont
June 4th - Lydiard Mansion, Lydiard Tregoze
Chilcott - Nidaros Mass
Finzi - Seven Poems of Robert Bridges
Rodgers and Hammerstein - Medley from Oklahoma
Rheinberger - Abenlied
Excerpts from Haydn St. John Mass and Handel Dettingum Te Deum
Paul Mealor - O Beata Trinitas
March 11th - St. Mary's Church, Purton
Chilcott - Nidaros Mass
Rheinberger - Stabat Mater
Byrd - Mass
Vaughan-Williams - 5 Mystical Songs
2022
November 19th - St. Michael's Church, Aldbourne
Concert in aid of Riding For The Disabled
Chilcott - Five Days that Changed the world
Music from the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II
Selection of music from Phantom of the Opera
How can love separate us - Maxwell
Let my love be heard - Runestad
God be in my head - Adam Meehan-Staines
August Bank Holiday Weekend 2022 - Chichester Cathedral - Choir in residence
Saturday 27th August - Choral Evensong
Sunday 28th August - Mattins
Sunday 28th August - Eucharist
Sunday 28th August - Choral Evensong
Monday 29th August - informal recital in the nave
June 19th - Enford - Wiltshire Historic Churches - Choral Evensong
March 26th - St. James's Church, Avebury
Poulenc - Motets For The Season Of Lent
Chilcott - Little Jazz Mass
Whitacre - Five Hebrew Love Songs
Whitacre - Saint Chappelle
Tallis - If ye love me
2021
December - St. Mary's Church, Purton
Poulenc - Christmas Motets, Charpentier - Messe de Minuit, French Carols, Favourite Christmas Songs
July - St. Peter's, Marlborough
Choral Evensong
2019
November - St. Michael's Church, Aldbourne
Will Todd - Jazz Missa Brevis, George Shearing - Songs and Sonnets, Vivaldi - Gloria
August - Evensong in Truro Cathedral - Choir in residence
July - St. George's, Preshute
Choral Evensong
July - St. Stephen's Beechingstoke
Moeran - songs of Springtime, Macmillan - O Radiant Dawn, Ireland - Greater Love hath no man
May - Clyffe Pypard Parish Church
Choral Evensong
April - St. Mary's, Marlborough
Music and readings for Palm Sunday
April - Broad Hinton Parish Church
Rheinberger - Stabat Mater, Rutter - Feel the Spirit, Selection of other music including Tchaikovsky and Stainer
2018
November - Festival of Rememberance, Steam, Swindon
Music on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the end of The Great War
October - Music at St Michael and All Angels, Urchfont
Jenkins - Armed Man Suite, Pankhurst - The Pankhurst Anthem, Selection of Cole Porter and George Gershwin songs
August - Evensong in St. David's Cathedral - Choir in residence
July - Evensong in Down Ampney, part of the Vaughan-Williams anniversary celebrations
June - Evensong in Lydiard Tregoze, for Historic Wiltshire Churches
March - St. Mary's Marlborough - Music and Prose for Palm Sunday
Gesualdi, Victoria
February - St. James's, Avebury and St. Giles's, Tockenham
Byrd, Cole Porter and George Gershwin, Stanford - Motets, Les Miserables
2017
November - Rememberance at Royal Agricultural College
For the Fallen, In Flanders Fields - first performance
August - St. David's Cathedral
Sisask - Benedictio, Palestrina - Sicut Cervus, Duruffle -Ubu Caritas, Bruckner - Locus Iste
August - Evensong in St. David's Cathedral - Choir in residence
July - Evensong in Preshute
May - Little Jazz Mass in Aldbourne
Chilcott - Little Jazz Mass, Rutter - Birthday Madrigals, Finzi - Lo, the full final sacrifice
2016
July - Evensong in Preshute
May - Evensong in Ampney Crucis
June - Music for the Queen's birthday - Liddington
Parry - I was glad, Britten - Jubilate Deo, Wesley - Thou will keep him in perfect peace, Vaughan-Williams - O taste and see, and other music for royal occasions
March - Michael and All Angels, Urchfont and Christ Church, Broad Town
Chilcott - Requiem, Vivaldi - Magnificat, Byrd - Ave Verum Corpus, Vaughan-Williams - Shakespeare Songs
2015
December – Music for Christmas - St. Giles' Tockenham
Britten – Ceremony of Carols, Selection of classical and popular Christmas songs
March - Lent in Marlborough - St. Mary's Church
Vaughan-Williams – Five Mystical songs, Victoria – o Vos Omnes, Casals – o Vos Omnes
2014
November - Rememberance - St. Mary's Church, Marlborough
Faure - Requiem, Douglas Guest - For the Fallen, Jenkins – Excerpts from The Armed Man, David Ridley - Everyone Sang - first performance
June - My Spirit Sang All Day
Haydn -Paukenmesse, Finzi - Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, Stanford - As Torrents in Summer, Elgar - Bluebird
Gibbons - Almighty & Everlasting God, Whitacre - Sleep & Lux Auremque
March - Welsh Music
Schubert - Mass in G (No. 2), Mathias - Let the people praise thee O God, Mealor - Wherever you are & Ubi Caritas,
Holst - The Dove & My sweetheart's like Venus, Tomkins - When David Heard & My Shepherd, Suo Gan -Folksong
2013
December - Christmas with Dodecantus
September - Requiem
Rutter - Requiem, Motets by Palestrina & Bruckner
May - Springtime
Vivaldi - Gloria, Moeran - Songs of Spring, plus works from Britten, Birley & Morley
January - Une Soirée Français
Poulenc - Gloria & Chansons Françaises, Debussy - Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans, Duruflé - Motets Op. 10, Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine, Messiaen -O Sacrum Convivium
2012
Summer - American Highway
Bernstein - Chichester Psalms, Whitacre - Sleep; Five Hebrew Love Songs, Lauridsen -Ubi Caritas et Amor, Barber - Heaven-Haven; Sure on this Shining Night
Spring - 'Northern Lights'
Mozart - Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Grieg - Four Psalms, Selection of Scandanavian composers
2011
Christmas
Britten - Ceremony of Carols, Gorecki - Totus Tuus and Broad Waters
Spring
Puccini - Messa di Gloria, Vaughan-Williams - In Windsor Forest, Gershwin - Medley of Music from Porgy & Bess
2010
Christmas
Langlais - Messe Solennelle, Langlais - Sept Noels Populaires Anciens, Poulenc - Un Soir de Neige
Autumn - A Concert for Remembrance
Fauré - Requiem,
Spain
St Michael's Cave, Gibraltar
Jaen Cathedral, Jaen
Seville Cathedral, Seville (UNESCO World Heritage site)
Poulenc - Stabat Mater, Duruflé - Requiem
Spring
Duruflé - Requiem, Purcell - Funeral Music for Queen Mary, Poulenc - Quatre Motets pour un Temps de Pénitence
2009
Christmas
Tallis' recently discovered Missa Puer Natus est Nobis
France
Cathedral of St Cyr and Sainte Julitte, Nevers
Cathedral of St Lazare, Autun
Abbaye de Fontenay (UNESCO World Heritage building)
Poulenc - Stabat Mater
Spring
Jenkins - Dewi Sant, Rachmaninov - Vespers
2008
Christmas
Handel - Dettingen Te Deum, Plus a selection of Christmas music from across the ages
Summer
A musical summer holiday
Malta
St. John's Co-Cathedral, Valetta (UNESCO World Heritage building)
St. Paul's Cathedral, M'dina
Church of St Lawrence, Vittoriosa (celebrating its 1750th anniversary)
St Paul's Anglican Cathedral, Valetta with the New Choral Singers
Fauré - Requiem, Poulenc - Stabat Mater, Mozart -Solemn Vespers
Plus An Evening of Choral Music with The New Choral Singers
Spring
Seven Songs on Poems by Robert Bridges, Finzi, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Mozart
2007
Christmas
Vaughan-Williams - Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Le Messe de Minuit
September - Love and Jealousy
French Tour
Cathedral of Saint-Bénigne, Dijon
Church of St-Lazare, Avallon
Poulenc -Stabat Mater
Spring
Poulenc - Stabat Mater, Parry - Songs of Farewell
2006
Christmas
Jenkins - A Celebration of Christmas, Blake - Lullaby
French Tour
Church of St-Lazare, Avallon
Basilica of Ste-Madeleine, Vézelay (UNESCO World Heritage building)
Fauré - Requiem, plus English & French Songs for Summer
Summer
Songs for a Summer Evening
Easter
Pergolesi -Stabat Mater, Vivaldi - Gloria
2005
Christmas
Britten - A Ceremony of Carols, A Tribute to Harry Simeone, Plus a selection of Christmas Music
November
Remembrance Sunday - Fauré Requiem
Summer
Songs from the Shows, Plus an evening of Music with PLU Choral Union
Spring
Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle
2004
Christmas
Britten - A Ceremony of Carols plus a selection of Christmas Music