CHOIR
The Choir of All Saints Church, Turkdean
We would be delighted to hear from people who would be keen to join our small choir and who can read music and have an interest in traditional ecclesiastical choral music and liturgy.
We audition those able to make a commitment to regular attendance at one Sunday service each month (which is immediately preceded by a rehearsal) in Turkdean in the midst of the rural Cotswolds and who would be excited to participate in mounting occasional special services, which tend to focus on English choral music of the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Turkdean Choir rehearsing before the Matins service
on 14th April 2024
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Dominic Hamilton – Director of Music
Dominic has conducted the choir since Autumn 2023 and really enjoys motivating and directing such a talented and friendly group of singers. He has a degree in modern languages and is an organist by training. By day he is director of the Rococo Garden in Painswick.
Recent anthems sung by the Choir have included:
- Felice Anerio (1560-1614): Christus factus est
- William Byrd (1543-1623) : Ave verum corpus
- Richard Farrant (1525-‘80): Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake
- Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) : Almighty and Everlasting God
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-’91) : Ave verum corpus
- Prof Sir John Stainer (1840-1901) : God so loved the world
- Richard Hey Lord (1933-2021) : View me, Lord
- Herbert Sumsion CBE (1899-1995) : One thing have I desired of the Lord
- Ralph Vaughan Williams OM (1872-1958) : O taste and see
- Thomas Tallis (1505-’85) : Verily, verily I say unto you
- Josef Anton Bruckner (1824-’96): Locus Iste
Felice Anerio (1560-1614): Christus factus est