Following the grand success of our Mozart Requiem Come and Sing we are doing a Come and Sing Event again in 2026 with orchestra a connected children's concert and workshops!
Possibly the scope of this concert could be called an Oriel's Bach Fest! The layout will be as such:
- Workshops surrounding the date: Rainer Thomsen our tenor and evangelist, singing professor at Hamburg's Hochschule für Musik und Theater will be giving a workshop for singers and singing teachers on Rabine Functional Singing Technique and on Bach Singing. Whether you are a singing teacher yourself or a singer on any level you can book a lesson with us. See the Workshop page or just
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . - Saturday daytime: During the day starting from 2pm there will be rehearsals on the way for our Come and Sing event with the Oriel Singers as the core choir.
- Saturday evening, 7pm: The big Come and Sing Concert with full orchestra of parts I-III
Funding
Our warmest thanks goes to the local P H Holt Fundation for making this project possible!
We are still looking for further funding and donors to expand our connected outreach work and to have a chance of breaking even.
Orchestra
We have a lovely orchestra assembled of people who believe in the idea of doing a special children's performance and many of them are donating their time to a significant and overwhelming proportion as contribution in kind. Also a vast proportion are Bach specialists from Germany who are making the travel to spread the joy of Bach's music over the channel and bring it to the next generation. For me as a child growing up and even today Christmas means hearing those first timpanis and trumpets in Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
We have nearly everyone preliminary agreed but are waiting for funding and some things to be confirmed. As soon as we have those, we will of course name all of our wonderful players and section leaders here.
Soloists
Soprano: Sara-Katharina Ochs, Hamburg
Alto: Faye Watson, Liverpool
Tenor & Evangelist: Rainer Thomsen, Hamburg (and Matt Bright, Liverpool in Children's Oratorio)
Bass: Matteo Ressa, Liverpool
Come and Sing
We will publish a registration link and more details for the Come and Singers closer to the date.
- The chorales will be sung in English
- The choirs will be sung in German
- we will provide pdfs
Workshops
Find more details, registration link etc. on the sites for the workshops. All singers welcome.
Time, Date and Place
- Holy Trinity Wavertree, Church Road, Liverpool L15 9EQ
- Children's Concert: 27/11/26 1.30pm (tbc) (separate entity)
- Come and Sing I-III Concert: 28/11/26, 7pm
- Come and Sing Registration: 28/11/26 2.00 pm ff. (tbc)
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