Category: Music

Choral Concert: Chapel Choir of Summer Fields, Oxford

Saturday 6 June at 7:00pm

A programme of sacred Choral Music sung by the Chapel Choir of Summer Fields, Oxford. The proceeds will go to St Giles’s Organ Fund.

There are three choirs at Summer Fields. The Chapel Choir is made up of roughly 24 choristers and 12 adults. As well as singing at all the School Chapel services, the Chapel Choir sings regularly at major venues such as Westminster Cathedral, Saint George’s Chapel and many Oxford Colleges. The choir also makes tours abroad.

The repertoire ranges from Elizabethan pieces such as William Byrd’s Mass in Four Parts, to contemporary pieces by composers such as Howells, Rutter and Mathias. In addition, they sing some secular pieces spanning madrigals to songs from contemporary musicals and shows. The Chapel Choir is directed by Summer Fields’ Director of Music,

“At the heart of Summer Fields is a sense of community, and this continues to be a strength of the school.”

ISI Inspection Report 2014

Andrew Kong plays Bach

Chorister and organist, Andrew Kong, plays J.S. Bach’s Choral Partita for organ Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig (BWV 768) at St Giles Church on Sunday 22 March at 12:00 noon.

The work consists of a chorale and eleven short variations written on it. This is one of Bach’s earlier works, dating from around 1705, when the young composer was influenced by the style of the variations of Georg Böhm, organist of St. John’s Church in Lüneburg, where Bach was a student. Dieterich Buxtehude is another probable source of inspiration. Of Bach’s chorale partitas for organ, this is the longest.