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JANUARY 2026
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE NORWICH SINGERS NOW REHEARSE AT ST EDMUNDS CHURCH, COSTESSEY, NORWICH NR8 5DG ON WEDNESDAY NIGHTS AT 7.30PM. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling all Singers!<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We are currently recruiting new singers in all parts of the choir, particularly new tenor and bass members of the choir.
If you or someone you know might be interested in singing with us, please contact our Musical Director Jason Lambert or Chairperson Suzanne Long \u2013 contact details for both Jason and Suzanne can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details of our next concert are as follows:

Summer Concert \u2013 ‘The Quire’s Voices’ <\/strong>Pieces chosen by members to include Handel, Mozart, Lloyd-webber, Beatles and more.
Guest Soloist Hannah Long
Saturday 11 July 2026 7.30pm<\/strong>\u00a0at St Edmunds Church, Costessey, Norwich NR8 5DG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer News 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Winter News 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Norwich Singers gave two festive concerts at the end of December 2025. Our main concert was held at Chapel Field Methodist Church on Saturday 13th December and was greatly enjoyed by all who attended. There was the usual mix of traditional carols, more modern carols and songs, and some lighter songs to celebrate the holiday season to end the concert. The following week on 17th December a slightly depleted choir due to seasonal illness made its way out to the Broads, to How Hill Trust near Loddon to deliver the concert again there to raise funds for the Trust. We may have been diminished in numbers but were certainly not diminished in enthusiasm and enjoyment and we hope to once again visit How Hill at Christmas 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer News 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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On a sweltering evening in July, Norwich Singers gave a rousing concert of two halves. The first half featured songs from Broadway shows, with the choir performing Rhythm of Life’ from Sweet Charity, and medleys from Evita and Les Mis\u00e8rables. These were interspersed with two beautiful songs from our soloist Hannah Long, ‘The Trolley Song’ from Meet Me in St Louis and from Camelot ‘The Simple Joys of Maidenhood’. The second half took everyone to the last night of the Proms with all the usual favourites in place: the sea shanties, Rule Britannia, Land of Hope and Glory, Jerusalem and the National Anthem. Added into this was a lovely piano solo from our regular pianist, Matthew Bond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring News 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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On Saturday 12 April 2025 Norwich Singers presented an evening of music celebrating Eastertide. We were once gain very happy to welcome our regular soloist Hannah Long, who sang the soprano solos in Poulenc’s uplifting Gloria, and Nella Fantasia by Ennio Morricone, a song sung in Italian based on the theme \u2018Gabriel’s Oboe\u2019 from the film \u2018The Mission\u2019. It was particularly lovely that Hannah was joined by her mother Susanne Long to provide the two solo parts that soar above the choir in Fallen, composed in 2009 by David Lancaster; this was its Norfolk premiere. Hannah’s beautiful soprano voice again soared over the choir as we closed the first half with the magnificent Easter hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni.
The second half of the concert comprised a selection of arias and choruses from Handel’s Messiah, with Hannah singing the soprano arias and once again being joined by her mum in the duets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Autumn\/Winter News 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Festive season got off to a jolly start at Rosebery Road Methodist Church on 14 December 2024 with ‘All Wrapped Up’ \u2013 the Norwich Singers’ evening of festive songs and carols, including Vaughan-Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols. The audience were able to enjoy Rosebery Road Methodist Church Cribs and Trees Festival at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer News 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On one of the hottest summer evenings (as usual) Norwich Singers presented a lively and varied evening of music to celebrate the choir’s seventieth anniversary. ‘From Byrd to the Beatles \u2013 500 Years of Song’ did what it said on the tin and the evening travelled from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century through song, mainly staying in Great Britain but with an occasional detour to Vienna, Paris and, somewhat tangentially, Japan. As well as Byrd, and Lennon and McCartney, there were songs from Arthur Sullivan, Thomas Morley, the newly knighted John Rutter, Mozart, Faur\u00e9, Vaughan-Williams, Elgar and Flanders and Swann amongst many others. The choir was also very pleased to sing a song composed by one of their own, Ken Tickle, who set Marlowe\u2019s poem Come Live With me and Be My Love to music for his wife Enid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winter 2023 News<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Christmas comes but once a year …<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

… And once again Norwich Singers enjoyed presenting an evening of festive songs and carols on 16 December 2023. We were pleased to be at our new concert venue, Rosebery Road Methodist Church, especially as it coincided with the church’s beautiful crib festival.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Summer 2023 News<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Summer Concert 2023 \u2013 a journey through time<\/h2>\n\n\n
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For once the weather was kind for our Summer Concert on 15 July 2023, and we didn’t have to sing in a heatwave. A varied programme of music from many ages and around the world took the audience back in time and all around the world, up rivers and over seas, with songs both well-known and perhaps new to the audience and also paid tribute both to the late Queen Elizabeth II and to King Charles III.
From the Mid-West of America with Oh What a Beautiful Morning via Australia with Waltzing Matilda ( where the tenors and basses turned rough and the altos came over all ghostly), the Russian steppes at the turn of the 20th Century with the beautiful Sunrise Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof<\/em> and Stratford-Upon-Avon with Where the Gentle Avon Flows by Ronald Bynge, Norwich Singers travelled around the world and back.
After our travels, Norwich Singers took the opportunity to remember the late Queen Elizabeth II and acknowledge the new King Charles III with four very different pieces with royal connections: Zadok the Priest (sung at every coronation since George II), Let the People Praise Thee O God (written by the Welsh composer William Mathias for the wedding of Charles and Diana),  Psalm 121 (which, as set by Henry Walford Davies, was sung as the late Queen\u2019s coffin entered St Georges Chapel for Committal) and finally In Our Service (commissioned by the Royal School of Church Music for the Queen\u2019s Platinum Jubilee for choirs in any setting to sing \u2013 the text comprises extracts from the Queen\u2019s speeches given over more than 70 years.)
The choir sent the audience on its own journey home with First, Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s and then a song which has taken on a life all of its own from its origins in the musical Carousel<\/em> \u2013 You\u2019ll Never Walk Alone<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 2023 News<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n
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Norwich Singers welcome Spring<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It was a lovely Spring evening for a change on 15 April when Norwich Singers offered Songs for a Spring Evening (our Spring concerts have been known to be sung while a snow storm rages outside!) The well-attended concert comprised a number of songs on the theme of Spring and Eastertide. Some were well known, such as spirituals including Deep River and Were You There?, Stanford’s The Bluebird, Franck’s Panis Angelicus and John Tavener’s The Lamb, whilst others were possibly less so, including Ave Maria by Igor Stravinsky. Certainly one song would have been new to everyone there as Bread of the World was a world premiere, written by a member of the choir, bass Ken Tickle.
We were delighted to once again welcome as our guest soloist Hannah Long, who sang Ave Maria (As a mother to her child) by Tolga Kashif and The Lord\u2019s my Shepherd, arranged by Bob Chilcott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other News<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Christmas Concert 2022<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Once again Norwich Singers celebrated the festive season with an evening of carols and Christmas songs. With a mix of new songs (certainly new to many of the audience and probably to a number of the choir too!) by composers such as William Mathias and John Rutter, traditional carols for al to join in, with and seasonal readings, the whole evening was a lovely way t start the festive season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer Concert 2022<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 16 July 2022, one of the hottest nights of this very hot summer, Norwich Singers presented their summer concert, a selection of musical numbers from stage and screen. There was something for everyone: the romance and tragedy of Stephen Sondheim\u2019s first musical, West Side Story; The sass and razzmatazz of Chicago, the charm of Mary Poppins, including songs specially written for the stage version and not included in the original film; the grandeur and Latin American rhythms of Evita; the old fashioned jazz and blues of Cole Porter; The evergreen Oklahoma; the fun of Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat; the classic Oliver!; and finally the pop rock of Rocketman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were also pleased to welcome back once again soprano Hannah Long who sang I Could Have Danced All Night from My Fair Lady and Think of Me from Phantom of the Opera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring Concert 2022<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 2 April 2022, Norwich Singers gave their first full concert in two years. The concert comprised a performance of Parts 2 and 3 of Handel\u2019s Messiah, followed by John Rutter\u2019s Requiem, and was notable, not only because, like all performing groups, the choir had been unable to give a full concert for the past two years, but also because it marked 70 years since the choir was founded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As well as invited soloists, Hannah Long, a regular collaborator with the choir, and Matthew Jordan, the choir, led by Musical Director Jason Lambert, was delighted to be accompanied by members of St Gregory\u2019s Orchestra, Norwich and other invited musicians, led by Alison Mills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second half of the concert, a performance of John Rutter\u2019s Requiem, was dedicated to the people of Ukraine and a retiring collection was taken. Thanks to the generosity of all who were there, nearly \u00a3200 will be donated to the DEC Emergency Fund for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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