Keswick Hall Choir

Keswick Hall Choir – Norwich, now in its 42nd season, enjoys an excellent reputation for its performances of both renaissance and contemporary music. Some of this repertoire is represented on the choir’s CD, The Shining Road, recorded in Norwich Cathedral in 2006 and available by mail order. Keswick Hall Choir is widely regarded as Norfolk’s leading amateur chamber choir. It currently consists of around 50 voices and performs repertoire from the 16th to the 21st centuries.

On 17th November 1970, Keswick Hall Choir gave its very first concert in what was then the Parish Church of St John the Baptist. To mark 40 years of the choir and as part of the centennial celebrations of the consecration of St John’s, the choir presented a programme spanning the rich diversity of British choral music written in the past 100 years, from Elgar's Great is the Lord and Holst's Nunc Dimittis to Aston's How lovely is your dwelling place and MacMillan's Padre Pio’s Prayer with Howells, Britten and Finzi in between. A highlight of the evening was the first performance of a newly-composed Requiem by King’s Lynn composer Paul Johnson. Keswick Hall Choir recorded this along with other works by Paul Johnson in spring 2011; details of this latest CD will be available soon.

This season will be John Aplin's final season with the Choir and highlights include: a performance of Brahms' Requiem with the international piano duo of David Nettle and Richard Markham on Saturday, 25th February 2012, at St Peter Mancroft Church, Norwich; a performance of Handel's Israel in Egypt with the Academy of St Thomas on Saturday, 28th April 2012 at St Andrew's Hall, Norwich.

More details of these concerts can be found in the 2011-2012 season's brochure (PDF File - 286 kB).

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