Category Archives: 2022

Family Christmas Concerts

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Saturday 17th December 2022, 3.30pm and 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Horsell

Celebrate the Christmas season with beautiful choral classics and carols for choir and audience, along with music from our special guests, the Jazz Group from Woking High School.

Join us for the afternoon concert starting at 3.30pm, or evening concert starting at 7.30pm. There’ll be festive interval refreshments available to purchase.

The concert will support Jigsaw Woking, a charity which provides quality pre-loved clothing, toys and equipment, by referral, for families with children under 11. 

Opera!

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Wednesday 29th June 2022, 7.30pm
Trinity Methodist Church, Woking | Map

Come and enjoy an evening of popular choruses and arias and celebrate the end of a successful year of singing for Epworth Choir.

This ‘Evening at the Opera’  conducted by Michael Waldron  and accompanied by Jonathan Lilley (piano) will feature performances by two talented professional soloists – Soprano Lynsey Docherty and Tenor Anthony Flaum.

Our programme, including Puccini’s Humming Chorus; Verdi’s Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves and Brindisi; Bizet’s Habanera; Wagner’s Bridal Chorus and Handel’s Chorus of Enchanted Islanders,  is guaranteed to have you singing all the way home!

This year we are supporting Woking Street Angels, who celebrated their 10 year anniversary in 2021. As usual, we will hear about the work of the Woking Street Angles and there will be a collection to support their work on the night. You can also donate up to £10 by text message (SMS): please send the message WSA and the £ amount (e.g. WSA £5) to 70085.

The Armed Man by Karl Jenkins

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Saturday 2nd April 2022, 7.30pm
Holy Trinity Church, Guildford

In March 2020, we were less than a week away from performing this piece when the first national lockdown was announced. We were delighted finally to be able to perform it in the glorious setting of Holy Trinity Church on Guildford High Street.

This modern masterpiece by the Welsh composer Karl Jenkins has become a firm favourite with audiences and performers alike. Karl Jenkins is perhaps best known for “Adiemus” (originally written for a Delta Airlines TV advert). Adiemus led to a series of pieces in the same style which topped the album charts as “Songs of Sanctuary”.

The Armed Man is a mass, first performed at The Royal Albert Hall in 2000 and dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo crisis. The piece begins with the growing menace of a descent into war, interspersed with moments of reflection; shows the horrors that war brings; and ends with the hope for peace in a new millennium, when “sorrow, pain and death can be overcome”.