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Dec 12th 2010: A Christmas Cracker

What an end to the year! Grosvenor Chapel was packed to the rafters for our final Yuletide spectacular, with a range of moods from Tobias Frank’s tranquil Guten Abend, Gut Nacht to Christopher Norton’s boisterous The Earthly Choir. We were especially honoured to be premiering no less than three new commissions: Hark What a Sound, by Thomas Hewitt Jones; Today, by Peter Foggitt and I Saw a Swete Semly Syght, by Tim Sutton – and to have Gareth Malone singing with us for the season.

July 18th 2010: Amore Vittorioso

Voce rounded off the summer season back at Grosvenor Chapel with a packed programme of Tudor music and the new Mike Brewer commission, accompanied by harpsichord and string quartet.

July 10th 2010: A Musical Progress at Boughton House

This was one of our most unconventional concerts yet: a three-stage performance in Boughton House, the home of the Duke of Buccleuch. It began in a local church, went by way of madrigals sung in the Duke’s landscaped garden (pictured) and ended in his exquisite music room. The repertoire included pieces unearthed in Boughton’s music archives which had not been performed in over 200 years.

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Dec 13th 2009: Christmas Extravaganza

Voce had an enormously successful Christmas concert and Gareth Malone of the BBC’s The Choir popped backstage for a couple of photos...

Nov 14th 2009: Sir David Willcocks’ 90th Birthday

We teamed up with the Queens’ College Chapel Choir and a select few of the Bach Choir to perform a selection of folk song arrangements for Sir David Willcocks’ 90th birthday, as well as Parry’s I Was Glad. Following dinner, the music continued in the President’s Lodge with a birthday ode composed by John Rutter and a singalong to a long-lost love song composed by Sir David in his earlier years.