Past concerts
Poster with ornate baroque ceiling
Poster with ornate baroque ceiling
'After your wonderful concert​ I floated down from Heaven, floated home, floated past washing-up, floated into bed and off to sleep.'
Audience member, 29 June 2024
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'I’m so glad we came to your concert It was really lovely and I was so impressed by the whole sound and the beautiful starts. I really liked your conductor too and he was charming when I had a brief word of congratulations, having told him I was an ex-member!'
Penny Jaques, March 2022
'What a simply glorious experience it was to listen to the choir last Saturday. I loved it all, but Johnson's Gloria was stunning.'
Audience member, 23 November 2019
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'Lovely concert by newCHOIR this evening. Beautiful sound from the choir and impressively clear diction. Wonderful!'
Nicola Lisle, Oxford Times, 12 November 2016
A Baroque Celebration 29 June 2024, St Michael & All Angels, Summertown
Durante Magnificat; Purcell Come Ye Sons of Art; Vivaldi Gloria​
Sing Joyfully! 23 March 2024, St Michael at the Northgate
Claudio Monteverdi Cantate Domino; William Byrd Sing Joyfully; Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music with music by Bernard Hughes, Paul Ayres, Franz Schubert, Sarah Quartel, B. E. Boykin, Robert Harris, Reginald Wright
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A time of remembrance 11 November 2023, St Mary & St John, Cowley Rd
Duruflé Requiem; Mendelssohn Verleih uns Frieden; Guest For the Fallen; Parry Crossing the Bar; Harris Bring Us O Lord God;
Elgar They Are at Rest
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In the Mood 1 July 2023, St Michael & All Angels Church, Summertown
Chilcott A little jazz mass; Rutter Birthday Madrigals; selections from the close-harmony book In The Mood
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They that go down to the sea 1 April 2023, St Michael & All Angels Church, Summertown
Stanford Songs of the fleet; Mäntyjärvi Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae and works by Arbo, Sumsiun, Vivian and others
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Christmas at Home 10 December 2022, St Margaret's Church
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols; Howells Here is the Little Door, A Spotless Rose; Britten A Hymn to the Virgin; McDowall Advent Moon; Chilcott O Little Town of Bethlehem
CANTATE! 25 June 2022, St Michael at the Northgate
Buxtehude Magnificat; Handel Zadok the Priest; works by Byrd, Palestrina, Monteverdi, Purcell and Bach
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SONGS OF SPRINGTIME 26 March 2022, St Michael at the Northgate
Works by Moeran, Shearing, Whitacre, Pearsall and Anna Disley- Simpson
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THE PASSING OF THE YEAR 27 November 2021, St Margaret's Church
Dove The passing of the year; works by Barber, Lauredsen, Gardner and Beamish
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SING FOR JOY! 23 November 2019, Exeter College Chapel
Stanford Te Deum in B flat; Three motets; Purcell Te Deum in D; Johnson Gloria; Works by Byrd, Tallis and Gibbons; Spirituals
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CHOIR AND HARP Choral music with the queen of instruments 29 June 2019, Holywell Music Room
Bassi: Harpsonnets; Britten: Gloriana Dances; McDowall: A fancy of folksongs; Horovitz: Three choral songs
Choral Genius 23 March 2019, Exeter College Chapel
Bach: Jesus bleibet meine Freude; Finzi: God is gone up; Bruckner: Locus Iste, Ave Maria; Pärt: Beatitudes; works by Monteverdi, Brahms & Howells
Songs of Joy & Hope 1 December 2018, St Margaret's Church
BOB CHILCOTT: Jubilate; PHILIP MOORE: Jubilate Deo; Works by Finzi and Holst; three spirituals
A Queen's Music 16 June 2018, St Mary Magdalen Church
​Handel: Zadok the Priest; Bennet: All Creatures Now Are Merry-Minded; Weelkes: As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending; Stanford: Gloria in Excelsis; Whitacre: Her Sacred Spirit Soars; Ireland: The Hills; Finzi: White-Flowering Days; Parry: I Was Glad
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Divine Harmony 17 March 2018, Harris Manchester College
Whitacre: i thank You God; The seal lullaby; Vaughan Williams: Serenade to music; Haydn: Harmoniemesse in B flat
Baroque Tribute 4 November 2017, St John the Evangelist Church
Handel: Funeral anthem for Queen Caroline; Bononcini: When Saul was King; Handel: I will magnify thee
Bach & all that Jazz 1 July 2017, St Michaels at the Northgate
Bach: Air & Prelude; Chilcott: A Little Jazz Mass; Gershwin: Suite from ‘Porgy and Bess’; Irving Berlin: favourite songs
GLORIA! 11 March 2017, St Mary Magdalen Church
Settings of Gloria in Excelsis by Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Simon Johnson. Mozart: From Missa Longa in C, K262; Victoria: From Missa, O quam gloriosum
Voices & Violins 12 November 2016, St John the Evangelist Church
Haydn Little Organ Mass; Mozart: Litaniae Lauretanae, K109; Monteverdi: Cantate Domino a 2; Cavalli: Nisi Dominus; Telemann: Laudate Jehovam
Songs of the Sea 25 June 2016, New Road Baptist Church,
Stanford: Songs of the Fleet; John Wells: The Call of the Running Tide (NZ composer; UK premiere); Cecilia McDowall: Shipping Forecast
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The Choral Spirit 19 March 2016, Exeter College Chapel
Joseph Haydn: Insanae et Vanae Curae; Samuel Sebastian Wesley: The Wilderness;
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Veni Sancte Spiritus; Paul Patterson: Millenium Mass
Tudor Connections 14 November 2015, Exeter College Chapel
Tudor motets interwoven with works by 20th century composers:
Thomas Tallis: If ye love me; Third mode melody; Robert Parsons: Ave Maria; William Mundy: O Lord, the maker of all thing; William Byrd: O quam gloriosum; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Te Deum in G; Valiant for Truth; O clap your hands; Lord, thou hast been our refuge; The Old Hundredth; Herbert Howells (organ solo): Master Tallis’s Testament
An American Dream 6 June 2015, New Road Baptist Church
Rodgers and Hammerstein: selection from Oklahoma! Cole Porter medley, arr. Janet Lincé: incl. Begin the Beguine; You do something to me; I love Paris; Samuel Barber: To be Sung on the Water; Sure on this shining night; Randall Thompson: Choose something like a star; The Road Not Taken; Alleluia; George Gershwin: selection from Porgy and Bess
The Sacred Muse 7 March 2015, St Margaret’s Church, Jericho
Gerald Finzi: Lo, the full final sacrifice; Herbert Howells: O pray for the peace of Jerusalem; Gustav Holst: Psalms 86 and 148; Charles Stanford: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem; Spirituals: Deep river; I want Jesus to walk with me; Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel; Ev’ry time I feel the spirit
Baroque Praise 29 November 2014, St John the Evangelist Church
John Blow: God spake sometime in visions; Giacomo Carissimi: Jepthe; Francesco Scarlatti: Miserere; Henry Purcell: Rejoice in the Lord alway
Shakespeare’s Muse 7 June 2014, Jesus College Chapel
James Bassi: Harpsonnets; Joseph Horovitz: Three Choral Songs; George Shearing: Songs and Sonnets; Romantic partsongs by Macfarren, Wood, Horsley, Sterndale Bennett and Pearsall
Rise, Heart! Music of glory and triumph 1 March 2014, Jesus College Chapel
Felix Mendelssohn: Hör mein Bitten; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs; Franz Schubert: Miriams Siegesgesang; Charles Stanford: Coronation Gloria
For All Seasons 8 June 2013, St Margaret’s Church, Jericho
Anon: Sumer is icumin in; Ernest Moeran: Songs of Springtime; Cecilia McDowall: Shipping Forecast; Jonathan Dove: The Passing of the Year
Sing Joyfully! 2 March 2013, Keble College Chapel
J S Bach: Lobet den Herrn; Benjamin Britten: Te Deum in C; Hymn to St Peter; Jubilate in C; Arvo Pärt: Beatitudes; Cantate Domino; Henry Purcell: I was glad; Hear my prayer
Virtual Vespers 17 November 2012, St Margaret’s Church, Jericho
Claudio Monteverdi: Confitebor Tibi; Nisi Dominus; Ave Maris Stella; Cecilia McDowall: Magnificat
Music of the People 10 June 2012, Mansfield College Chapel
John Rutter: The Sprig of Thyme; Aaron Copland: Old American Songs; Eric Whitacre: Cloudburst; Percy Grainger: Folk song arrangements
Romantic Praise 18 March 2012, Exeter College Chapel
Louis Vierne: Messe Solonnelle; Edward Bairstow: Blessed city, heavenly Salem; Charles Stanford: The Lord is my Shepherd; For lo, I raise up; Anton Bruckner: Os justi; Libera me Domine; Hubert Parry: I was glad