Saturday 10th May
7.30pm Pre-concert talk by Michael Berkeley
8.00pm Opening Concert – “Visions” – The Vasari Singers, directed by Jeremy Backhouse A Festival Anthem – Lennox Berkeley, And I saw a new heaven – Edgar Bainton, Jerusalem – Knut Nystedt, I saw him standing – Tarik O’Regan, I saw him standing – Philip Moore, New work – Michael Berkeley(i), Angel Song II – Will Todd, A Vision of Aeroplanes – Ralph Vaughan Williams, De Profundis – Jean-Jacques Grunenwald
Tickets from St Pancras Church Office: £15, £10 concessions Tel: 020 7388 1461

Sunday 11th May Pentecost / St Pancras Patronal Festival
10.00am Choral Eucharist. Preacher: The Revd Frances Arnold (Executive Officer to the House of Bishops)
Introit: Locus iste – Howard Skempton(ii), Mass: Missa Brevis – James MacMillan, Motet: We wait for thy loving kindness – Michael Berkeley, Voluntary: Wild Bells – Michael Berkeley
3.15pm * Choral Evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral. Responses: Kenneth Leighton, Canticles: Magdalen Service – Kenneth Leighton, Anthem: Come, Holy Ghost – Jonathan Harvey
5.45pm * Organ Recital at Westminster Abbey – James O’Donnell
Messe de la Pentecôte – Messiaen
6.00pm Choral Evensong. Preacher: The Revd Canon Jane Hedges (Canon, Westminster Abbey)
Responses: York Responses – Alan Gibbs, Introit: The Spirit of the Saints – Roxanna Panufnik, Canticles: Winchester Service – Robin Holloway, Anthem: Sound the trumpet in Sion – Peter Foggitt (i),
Voluntary: Empyrean – Francis Pott

Monday 12th May
10.00am Ancient & Modern: SPNM composer Paul Ramshaw and composer/producer Simon Zagorski-Thomas lead a workshop on the live electronic/digital manipulation of choral/vocal music old and new.
1.15pm The Choir of St Pancras Church, directed by Christopher Batchelor, with Paul Ramshaw and Simon Zagorski-Thomas perform pieces selected from the morning workshop – to include works by Byrd, Victoria and Purcell
5.00pm * Choral Evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral – Boys’ Voices Introit: Christ be with me – arr. Huw Williams, Responses: Stephen Darlington, Canticles: Tonus Peregrinus – Philip Moore, Anthem: Come my way, my truth – Ralph Vaughan Williams
8.00pm Private view of art installation in the crypt – “Still Another Place” Artists: Simon Dawe, Julie Goldsmith, Rachel Schwalm, Paul Vanstone, Felicity Warbrick
9.00pm Compline. Responses: Simon Brown(ii), Nunc Dimittis – Gregory Rose(ii), Te lucis ante terminum – Christopher Batchelor(ii), Save us, O Lord, waking – Peter Foggett (i)

Tuesday 13th May
1.15pm London College of Music String Ensemble, directed by Susanne Stanzeleit: Moz’Art a la Haydn – Alfred Schnittke, Modlitwa –Andrej & Roxanna Panufnik, Fratres & Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten – Arvo Pärt, Elegy for Violoncello and Piano – Kenneth Leighton
5.30pm Contemporary Dance & Composition Event
The culmination of collaborations between choreographers and dancers from the London Contemporary Dance School and composers from the London College of Music in a live performance with the Primrose Piano Quartet

Wednesday 14th May
12.15pm Messiaen the Church Musician – A pre-service talk given by Robert Sholl
1.00pm Choral Eucharist celebrating the Messiaen Centenary and Vaughan Williams 50th. Le Banquet Celeste – Messiaen, Introit: O taste and see – Vaughan Williams, Mass: Mass in G Minor – Vaughan Williams, Motet: O Sacrum Convivium – Messiaen, Voluntary: Tombeau de Messiaen – Jonathan Harvey – (Matthew Schellhorn – piano)
7.30pm Evening Concert by Gothic Voices
New Light on an Ancient World – a Medieval & Contemporary Combination
Crist and Sainte Marie – St Godric, Alleluia: Te martyrum candidates – anon, O virga ac diadema – Hildegard, Salve Regina – Northcott, Gaude Maria virgo – plainchant, O sponsa dei electa – anon, Alma redemptoris Mater – Northcott, Vetus abit littera – anon, Super te Jerusalem / Sed fulsit virginitas – anon, Inviolata genetrix / Felix Virgo – Machaut, The fader of Heven – Maxwell Davies, Gloria (Messe de Nostre Dame) – Machaut, Namoore to telle – Clucas (world prem.) Letetur celi curia – anon, Lullay, Lullay: Als I lay – anon, Agnus Dei à 4 (Old Hall MS) – anon, Beata progenies – Power, Veni creator spiritus – plainchant, Veni sancta spiritus / Veni sancte spiritus / Veni creator – Dunstaple
Tickets from St Pancras Church Office: £15, £10 concessions Tel: 020 7388 1461

Thursday 15th May
1.15pm Lunchtime Recital: Stephen Disley – organ. Fiesta – Iain Farrington Light & Darkness – Alan Gibbs (ukp), Jubilate – Paul Patterson, Annunciation & St Bride, assisted by Angels – Judith Bingham, Gospel Prelude on “Abide with me” – William Bolcom
5.30pm * Choral Evensong at Southwark Cathedral – Girls’ Voices & Men’s Voices
Responses: Richard Shephard, Canticles: ‘Spiritual’ Service – Stephen Tanner, Anthem: Seek him that maketh the seven stars – Jonathan Dove

Friday 16th May
12.45pm Pre-concert talk by Diana Burrell
1.15pm Lunchtime Recital: The Music of Diana Burrell –
A concert celebrating the composer’s 60th birthday
The Choir of St Pancras Church directed by Christopher Batchelor.
Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, Ave verum corpus, Christo paremus cantica, Hymn to Wisdom, St Pancras Canticles(iii), Benedicam Dominum
2.30pm * Children’s Jazz Event at St Clement Dane’s Church, The Strand
Karen Street (composer, accordionist & saxophonist), Paul Ayres
(composer, arranger & director) and the London College of Music Chamber Choir perform arrangements of well-known hymns and folksongs
with pupils from St Clement Danes’ C of E Primary School
5.30pm University College Chamber Choir and Ensemble directed by Charles Peebles
The Choral Music of Arvo Pärt – including Magnificat and L’abb�©e Agathon (ukp) with Mimi Kroll, Soprano, Littlemore Tractus, Seven Magnificat Antiphons
8.00pm “Mind over Music”
A performance of contemporary Sikh art music by the renowned Raj Academy, directed by Surinder Singh

Saturday 17th May
3.00pm * Choral Evensong at Westminster Abbey
Canticles: Aedis Christ I – Sebastian Forbes, Anthem: O Sing unto the Lord – MacMillan
7.30pm Pre-concert talk by Francis Pott
8.00pm Closing Concert by the Choir of the Chapels Royal directed by Andrew Gant
A programme of works written for this unique institution
The Yule-Tide Bell – Peter Maxwell Davies, A Song of Thanksgiving – Peter Maxwell Davies, An Anniversary Anthem – Peter Maxwell Davies, O Lord, Grant the Queen a long life – Francis Pott, Thus the Heaven and the earth were finished – Stephen McNeff, Shew me thy ways, O Lord – Nicholas O’Neill, Psalm 150 – John Rutter, Make a joyful noise – Edmund Joliffe, A Maundy Anthem – Matthew Martin, O Sacrum Convivium – Andrew Gant, An Anthem for Holy Week – Philip Moore,
May Wisdom and Judgement – Malcolm Archer, Was it winter – Robert Saxton, Gracious Spirit – Sebastian Forbes
Tickets from St Pancras Church Office: £15, £10 concessions Tel: 020 7388 1461

Sunday 18th May Trinity Sunday
10.00am Choral Eucharist. Preacher: The Rt Revd Graeme Knowles (Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral)
Introit: Locus iste – Robert Saxton, Mass: Canterbury Mass – Cecilia MacDowall, Motet: O Sacrum Convivium – Graham Ross, Voluntary: St Asaph Toccata – Gabriel Jackson
4.00pm Choral Evensong: BBC Radio 3 live broadcast
Responses: Peter Nardone, Introit: New work – Anthony Powers(i),
Canticles: St Pancras Canticles – Sebastian Forbes(i),
Anthem: Hymn to the Trinity – Gabriel Jackson, Voluntary: Free Fantasia on “O Zion, Haste” and “How Firm a Foundation” – William Bolcom

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St Pancras Church, Euston Road, NW1 (unless otherwise stated)

various - see programme for details

Most events are free. Only the 3 major concerts are ticketed

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