Following a long summer holiday, Timeline Choir rehearsals resume on Tuesday 19th (Surrey) and Thursday 21st September (Cambridge). As always, new members are most welcome to come and join us for the new term. This autumn sees a focus on traditional music from each of the two choir’s local areas, with some beautiful new arrangements of much-loved English songs.

Timeline Choir is a community singing group with a difference: although it is open to all, with no auditions and no requirement for members to be able to read music, the choir is set apart by its specially-arranged and artistically ambitious repertoire, which celebrates the heritage of the local area, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.

Cambridge Timeline Choir begins with an open session on Thursday 21st September, 7:30pm, at the St. Barnabas Centre on Mill Road. If you love to sing then come along and try out some new arrangements of folk songs collected in the East of England. You can email Meg to sign up or read more here.

Leith Hill Timeline Choir resumes with an open session on Tuesday 19th September, 7:30pm, at Forest Green Village Hall, Forest Green, Surrey. If you love to sing then come along and try out some new arrangements of folk songs collected by Dorking’s much-loved composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. You can email Stef to sign up or read more here.

Take up singing this September!

The Timeline Choir terms begin again this April and you are warmly invited to come along and sing!

Timeline Choir is a community singing group with a difference: although it is open to all, with no auditions and no requirement for members to be able to read music, the choir is set apart by its specially-arranged and artistically ambitious repertoire, which celebrates the heritage of the local area, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.

Cambridge Timeline Choir begins with an open session on Thursday 27th April, 7:30pm, at the St. Barnabas Centre on Mill Road. If you love to sing then come along and try out some new arrangements of folk songs collected in the East of England. You can email Meg to sign up or read more here.

Leith Hill Timeline Choir resumes with an open session on Tuesday 25th April, 7:30pm, at Forest Green Village Hall, Forest Green, Surrey. If you love to sing then come along and try out some new arrangements of folk songs collected by Dorking’s much-loved composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. You can email Stef to sign up or read more here.

Make a new year’s resolution to take up singing!

The Timeline Choir terms begin again this January you are warmly invited to come along and sing!

Timeline Choir is a community singing group with a difference: although it is open to all, with no auditions and no requirement for members to be able to read music, the choir is set apart by its specially-arranged and artistically ambitious repertoire, which celebrates the heritage of the local area, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.

Cambridge Timeline Choir begins with an open session on Thursday 12th January, 7:30pm, at the St. Barnabas Centre on Mill Road. If you love to sing then come along and try out some new arrangements of folk songs collected in the East of England. You can email Stef to sign up or read more here.

Leith Hill Timeline Choir resumes with an open session on Tuesday 10th January, 7:30pm, at Forest Green Village Hall, Forest Green, Surrey. If you love to sing then come along and try out some new arrangements of folk songs collected by Dorking’s much-loved composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. You can email Stef to sign up or read more here.

Make a new year’s resolution to take up singing!

Tickets are now available for the annual Timeline Songs concert and workshop event: British Bard-Song!

Join Stef Conner’s Timeline Choir and the amazing Juice Vocal Ensemble (‘an all-female vocal trio of astonishing variety, spark and brilliance’ – The Observer) for a magical Shakespearean vocal pageant in Cambridge (19th November) and Surrey (26th November). In honour of the 400^th anniversary of the playwright’s death, which took place this year, Timeline Songs draws inspiration not only from Renaissance choral music, but also from the sounds of theatres and taverns, songs of the street and cries of market traders, to re-imagine the atmosphere of a performance at the Globe theatre, in which people from all walks of life came together to be captivated by drama.

You will be able to close your eyes and find yourself transported back to Elizabethan England, as the choir perform music from the period in Original Pronunciation, – the English accent of Shakespeare’s era!

Alongside Tudor music, Juice and Timeline Choir will perform works by some of Britain’s most exciting choral composers, including a commission by the British composer Kerry Andrew, known for her “brilliant Berio-like vocal effects” (The Times) and unique, genre-defying style.

Before the concert, music, history and drama enthusiasts are invited to a Shakespearean singing workshop with Stef Conner, featuring Elizabethan popular songs in Original Pronunciation. The workshop runs from 5:30–6:30pm on the concert day and is open to all, with no singing experience or score reading required.

CLICK HERE for CAMBRIDGE tickets

CLICK HERE for SURREY tickets

Timeline Choir’s first new music commission, by Kerry Andrew, is supported by the RVW Trust.

Help Timeline Choir produce a spectacular Shakespeare-inspired performance, in collaboration with pioneering trio, Juice Vocal Ensemble, and fabulous composer Kerry Andrew, to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death. A new commission for Timeline Choir and Juice, by Kerry, will be woven into a programme of contemporary Shakespeare settings, Elizabethan songs and arrangements of folksongs that reflect on Shakespearean themes, all injected with a shot of Juice’s experimental flair. This is surely one of the most imaginative and exciting musical Shakespeare performances this year, but we need your help to make it happen.

CLICK HERE to check out our crowd-funding campaign and pledge your support!

You can help to fund the project by reserving exclusive front-row concert tickets in advance, alongside some imaginative additional perks, or support us from afar to watch online and receive a CD recording, along with some very special keepsakes.

PLEASE GET INVOLVED!!

A Cambridge Timeline Choir Workshop to Celebrate Shakespeare 400:

Join composer Kerry Andrew for an afternoon of Renaissance-meets-modern vocal escapades, reinventing songs from Shakespeare’s time with an experimental 21st century twist and delving into Kerry’s imaginative and unusual singing techniques. As well as learning some beautiful vocal music, you will be creating your own musical soundscapes based on Shakespearean texts, discovering inspiring new ways to use your voice and developing your confidence, aural perception skills and creativity.

Saturday 9th July

1:30pm–5pm

The old school hall, st barnabas centre, cambridge CB1 2bd

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The workshop is free to Timeline Choir members and non-members are also warmly invited to attend, in exchange for a small donation towards our annual concert. Choose from a range of options (from £10) and pay what you would like to contribute. RESERVE YOUR PLACE HERE. If you prefer, you can choose to pay on the day – bring along your cheque book and pay during the session, but make sure you still reserve your place by selecting the ‘pay on the day’ option. If you have any difficulty reserving a place online, just drop us an email and we’ll save you a space. Booking is essential as space is limited.

About Kerry Andrew

Kerry Andrew is a freelance composer, performer and writer based in London. Her work has been heard on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC 6Music and Classic FM and is performed internationally. She is the winner of three British Composer Awards for a choral work and for two chamber operas. She was 2010-12’s Composer in Residence at Handel House Museum and is visiting China in 2016 with on a British Council Musicians in Residence scheme. She is a Visiting Professor at Leeds College of Music in 2015/16.

Kerry has a PhD in Composition from the University of York and choral work is published by Oxford University Press and released on several labels. She has created work for the London Sinfonietta, the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain at the Royal Albert Hall, Art on the Underground, the Tete a Tete Opera Festival, twenty-five simultaneous community performances for the Landmark Trust, and 600 young singers, orchestral players and the Animate Orchestra at the Schools Prom in 2014.

Kerry performs as alt-folk soloist You Are Wolf, sings with Juice Vocal Ensemble, plays keys and vocals with DOLLYman and jazz vocals with Metamorphic. She occasionally writes for the Guardian and broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and presented a monthly podcast for Sinfini Music in 2015. She made her short story debut in BBC Radio 4’s Stories From Songwriters series in 2014 and is currently working on her first novel.

www.kerryandrew.net

You can check out Kerry’s recent piece ‘Who We Are’ performed by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain below:

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Leith Hill and Cambridge Timeline Choirs are welcoming new members throughout the summer term and you are invited to book yourself a place at any of the weekly rehearsals as a free introduction to the group.

Directed by composer and singer Stef Conner, Timeline Choir is a community singing group with a difference. It is open to all, with no requirement for members to be able to read music, and set apart by its specially-arranged and artistically ambitious repertoire, which celebrates the heritage of the local area, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.

Although there are no auditions to join the choir, prospective members should be aware that Stef aims for a high standard in performance – Timeline Choir members work hard to develop their singing and are entitled to experience the thrill of participating in a top quality concert. Although inclusiveness is part of the choir ethos, quality is important too and anyone who finds themselves struggling with pitching notes should be prepared to take some time out to work on it individually if it is affecting the overall sound.

Cambridge Timeline Choir rehearses on Thursdays during term time, from 7:30pm–9:15pm, at the St. Barnabas Centre on Mill Road. If you love to sing then come along and try out some new arrangements of folk songs collected in the East of England, as well as a selection of English Renaissance music and new commissions to mark the 2016 Shakespeare centenary! You can read more here and check the term dates here, then send an email to reserve yourself a place at a rehearsal. Your first session will be completely free.

Leith Hill Timeline Choir rehearses on Tuesdays during term time, from 7:30pm–9:15pm. Our usual venue is the Punch Bowl Inn, Okewood Hill, Surrey but please note that on Tuesday 21st and Tuesday 28th June 2016 we will be rehearsing at Forest Green Village Hall. Come along and sing new arrangements of folk songs collected by Dorking’s much-loved composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, rounds and catches by the Elizabethan composer Thomas Ravenscroft and some brand new Shakespeare settings to mark the 2016 centenary! You can read more here and check the term dates here, then send an email to reserve yourself a place at a rehearsal. Your first session will be completely free.

TEMPORARY VENUE ADDRESS: Forest Green Village Hall, Horsham Road, Forest Green, Surrey RH5 5RZ

Stef Conner’s two choirs in Leith Hill and Cambridge will be holding open sessions this January and you are warmly invited to come along and sing!

Timeline Choir is a community singing group with a difference: although it is open to all, with no auditions and no requirement for members to be able to read music, the choir is set apart by its specially-arranged and artistically ambitious repertoire, which celebrates the heritage of the local area, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.

Cambridge Timeline Choir begins with an open session on Thursday 14th January, 7:30pm, at the St. Barnabas Centre on Mill Road. If you love to sing then come along and try out some new arrangements of folk songs collected in the East of England, as well as seasonal medieval music for New Year feasting! Sign up here and read more here.

UP-DATE Jan 11th 2016:

The introductory session for Cambridge Timeline Choir is now fully booked! But don’t worry if you were hoping to come along – just drop us an email with your details and we will put you on our waiting list. Spaces are very likely to become available on the night, or the following week.

EMAIL US TO JOIN THE WAITING LIST

Leith Hill Timeline Choir resumes with an open session on Tuesday 12th January, 7:30pm, at the Punch Bowl Inn, Okewood Hill. If you love to sing then come along and try out some new arrangements of folk songs collected by Dorking’s much-loved composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, as well medieval music for the New Year! Sign up here and read more here.

Make a new year’s resolution to take up singing!