£35 VIP seats with post-performance canape reception £20 / £10 children (under 16) Join us in the stunning surroundings of Dorchester Manor House Garden for this Garsington Opera Garden Concert. Hear singers from Garsington Opera’s prestigious Alvarez Young Artists programme sing fabulous opera arias and ensembles. Katy Thomson - Soprano Bethany Horak-Hallett [...]
May Morning Singing from 9am Free May Morning Breakfast from 8.30am £5 (must be booked in advance) Two a Part Continuing the annual tradition, Dorchester’s a cappella group will welcome May by singing from the Abbey tower and then in the Abbey. Proceeds from this event go to this year’s charity Daybreak and to The Pride [...]
Amici Della Voce Tickets £10 (children under 16 free) The Baltic Connection Amici Della Voce are a brilliant mixed-voice acappella group founded and directed by David Crown. They specialise in performing a wide variety of repertoire from early Renaissance through to the present day. They will perform pieces from Gorecki, Pärt, Miškinis, Dubra and Esenwalds. [...]
Tickets £20/£12 (£10/£8 children under 16) Both piano concerts £30/ £18 (£15/£12 children under 16) Maki is also performing Bach Goldberg variations on Friday 6th May Maki Sekiya Ilya Chetverikov Debussy Blanc et Noir Stravinsky Rite of Spring Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances This 90min concerts has rarely heard musical gems written for two pianos performed by [...]
Tickets £20/£12 (£10/£8 children under 16) Both piano concerts £30/ £18 (£15/£12 children under 16) Maki is also performing in a concert with 2 pianos on Thursday 5th May Bach Goldberg variations, an iconic monument in Western music, is one of the few works by JS Bach to be printed in the composer’s lifetime, published [...]
Quintessential children's concert tickets £7 adults / £5 children A fun family concert! Would you like to take your children to a concert but you’re worried in case they make a noise during the performance? Would you like to know more about wind instruments and ask the players questions? This is the children's concert for [...]
Monteverdi Vespers Tickets £20 / £15 (children under 16 £5) Thames Consort Soloists: Soprano: Angela Hicks and Hannah Ely Tenor: Paul Bentley-Angell and Chris Fitzgerald-Lombard Bass: David Le Prevost and Ben Rowarth A towering masterpiece of the early Baroque — at once intimate and grand, prayerful and dramatic, exalted and sensual. Monteverdi’s rarely performed 1610 Vespers [...]
This masterclass is free to watch but is not available to join in - the participants are from local secondary schools Come and watch the Kings Singers inspire musicians of the future as they run a masterclass focusing on singers from local schools. This group will perform at the end of the evening concert. We’re [...]
The King's Singers Tickets: £30 /£25 /£20 Songbirds We’re delighted to welcome world-famous a cappella ensemble The King’s Singers to Dorchester Abbey. Recipients of two Grammy® Awards and an Emmy® Award, The King’s Singers have been the world’s greatest all-male vocal sextet for over 50 years. They consistently delight audiences across the globe with the [...]
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