Cantabile Jersey
Cantabile is a friendly SATB chamber choir specializing in performing the finest church music from the Renaissance to the present day. Regularly invited to sing Choral Evensongs, concerts and special services in the many fine churches in Jersey (10 have been visited during the past year), we have also sung in English cathedrals (most recently in Leicester, July 2018). Over the past two years, the choir has sung regularly in Normandy & Brittany - in Coutances Cathedral and churches in Agon-Coutainville, Gratot & Virey in Normandy, and in Eglise St. Méen in Cancale, Brittany. The choir also occasionally sings for civic services, services of Confirmation and Ordination; for weddings and memorial services and also for corporate and private events.
Our musical director, Graham Caldbeck, is one of the UK’s leading conductors of amateur choirs and brings a wealth of practical experience as a singer, conductor and teacher to our rehearsals. The choir meets on a Tuesday evening in St. Martin’s Parish Church between 7.30pm and 9.00pm. You are most welcome to attend a rehearsal on a trial basis and to sample the opportunity to improve your vocal and musical skills in a thoroughly enjoyable way.
Between September 2018 and September 2019, the choir has sung on 13 occasions in 12 different venues in Jersey and France, encompassing choral evensongs, a service of Compline, a series of carol services for Advent, Christmas & Epiphany, a Passiontide performance and a Latin Mass.
Over the past year the choir has performed a wide range of music from six centuries – some 50+ works by 40 composers - including works by Isaac, Tallis, Sheppard & Byrd; Mendelssohn, Walmisley, Wesley, Parry, Elgar, Charles Wood, Ireland, Bairstow & Vaughan Williams. More recently-composed works have also featured prominently in the choir’s attractive and eclectic programmes, including works by Duruflé, Leighton, Burgon, Tavener, Grayston Ives, Mack Wilberg, Rihards Dubra, Peter Nardone, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Philip Stopford & Matthew Martin.
If you would like to receive the choir’s newsletter please sign up using the nearby link on this page, and if you are interested in joining us or booking us, please contact our Chairman Fred Benest on 863826.