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NCS Spring Season Concert
Saturday 12th April 2025, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church, Newbury

Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius

Professional orchestra and soloists.

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NCS Spring Season Concert
Saturday 28th June 2025, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church, Newbury

Programme: TBA

Professional orchestra and soloists.

Our 2024 - 2025 Season of Concerts

On Saturday 13th April 2024 we returned to a choir favourite, Mozart’s Requiem, which we last performed it in 2013. It was a wonderful evening of music, with a large appreciative audience, stunning soloists and orchestra.

Our last concert was at the wonderful Douai Abbey, where sang Great Cathedral Anthems, a collection of popular anthems including  by Bairstow, Beach, Dove, Elgar, Parry, Wesley and many others.

On Saturday 2nd November our short Autumn season concert was Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem , at St Nicolas church, Newbury. It was a wonderful evening, stunning soloists and Sue and Steve were amazing playing the Steinway grand piano.

On Sunday the 15th December we performed our Christmas concert featuring a rich selection of traditional and well loved carols. The programme featured carols sung a capella and with the church organ, expertly played by Steve Bowey.  We were joined by soprano and alto soloists, Laura and Jess from our choral scholars programme. With a audience of over 230 and audience participation made a wonderful accompaniment to the choir and the roof was indeed raided. 

In 2025, our Spring Season will be Elgar's Dream of Gerontius which we will be performing at St Nicolas Church, Newbury on the 12th April, with professional orchestra and soloists. Because the work is so big it is rarely performed locally so not to be missed. It is safe to say it is going to be a fantastic evening of music.

Please don't forget NCS has details of its entire back catalogue of performances which can be searched by date, work, composer and conductor. It even has details of the professional and choir soloists and orchestras along with concert reviews and concert programmes in PDF format. The earliest programme available is 1905. Click here to access the database.

Concert Diary

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Saturday 12th April 2025, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church

Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius

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Saturday 28th June 2025, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church

NCS Summer Season Concert

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Saturday 29th November 2025, 7:30pm, Douai Abbey

Advent Concert

Concert Reviews

The voices of the choir, harmonious and powerful, resonated throughout the hall, filling every corner with warmth. The choirs balance and blend were impeccable, a testament to the dedication and rigorous rehearsals.
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John P Lawler

Newbury Weekly News

Concert Reviews

In my preparation for the concert, I was reading comments from a music publisher who said of the Sumsion piece, “It requires a good organist”. Well, NCS certainly had that! Steve Bowey was on terrific form and with Joe, they made a great team.
Congratulation to NCS who performed a challenging and varied programme with style and sensitivity.... View full review

Anne Ware

Newbury Weekly News

Concert Reviews

Beginning slowly, gently, conductor Joe Tobin coaxed a well structured, eloquent performance from choir and orchestra throughout. A powerful sound from the orchestra was juxtaposed with clean, lean voices from the choir.... View Full Review

Derick Ansell

Newbury Weekly News

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