Brighton Voices

Brighton Voices A non-audition community choir in association with All Saints Church, Hove under their MD Nelson Wong and our interim MD Michael Maine

We are fully independent of the church, who are kind enough to support us and to provide us with practice space and a musical director. The choir is non-audition and friendly. Our aim is to sing music we enjoy and to challenge ourselves by performing about two concerts a year We welcome new members for all parts. Our repertoire is both secular and sacred, mostly classical music, sung in four or mo

re parts with a smattering of Victorian Part Songs. In the past we have worked on a number of pieces that are more challenging than those traditionally undertaken by community choirs and will continue to do so.

Brighton Voices rehearsals AND a tour of All Saints Church Hove!And Brighton Voices are back, starting next Weds 9 Sept....
05/09/2026

Brighton Voices rehearsals AND a tour of All Saints Church Hove!
And Brighton Voices are back, starting next Weds 9 Sept.
⏰Wednesday evenings, 7pm – 9pm. Note the new earlier time!
📍All Saints Church, The Drive, Hove, BN3-3QE
Rehearsing Rutter’s Requiem, plus other Rutter music, for a concert Sat 7 Nov
🌐https://brightonvoices.org/
AND
There is a Heritage Open Day where you can tour All Saints Church, where we rehearse: Weds 16 Sept. Take a tour (11am or 2pm) of this magnificent Grade 1 listed parish church, built in the late 19th century in a Gothic revival style. The building was designed by the great Victorian architect John Loughborough Pearson, who was also the architect of Truro Cathedral. Pre-booking not required.
https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event/a-tour-of-all-saints-church-hove.html

Sussex Chorus are holding a Fauré Requiem workshop with MD Stephen Anthony Brown.Sat 12 Sept: St Andrew’s Church, Burges...
29/08/2026

Sussex Chorus are holding a Fauré Requiem workshop with MD Stephen Anthony Brown.
Sat 12 Sept: St Andrew’s Church, Burgess Hill, 10am – 1pm.
Fee £10 (+ £2 score hire if needed). Just turn up!
Plus Sun 1st Nov: a come and sing at Arundel Cathedral, 2 – 7pm.
More details on the attached posters.

And another to tell you about! THE KING OF INSTRUMENTS – AFTERNOON ORGAN RECITALFr Michael Maine presents an afternoon o...
22/08/2026

And another to tell you about!
THE KING OF INSTRUMENTS – AFTERNOON ORGAN RECITAL
Fr Michael Maine presents an afternoon of wonderful organ music at St John’s Church, Burgess Hill, celebrating the extraordinary colours, sounds and versatility of the ‘King of Instruments’.
The programme features works by Bach, Widor, Wesley and others, showcasing the magnificent range of the organ from delicate and expressive to powerful and majestic.
Saturday 12 September 2026
3.30pm
St John’s Church, Burgess Hill
Tickets: £10 in advance | £12 on the door
Tickets available from:
• TicketSource: https://buff.ly/8fBn7qn
• Burgess Hill Help Point
• St John’s Church
• On the door
Tea, coffee and cake will be available.
Come along and enjoy a wonderful afternoon of live music in the beautiful surroundings of St Johns.

Couldn't let this slip by without letting you all know about it. Promises to be a fantastic concert. 31 July, 7pm, the...
25/07/2026

Couldn't let this slip by without letting you all know about it. Promises to be a fantastic concert. 31 July, 7pm, the church is in Nevill Avenue, Hove - close to Hangleton Road end!

Before I sign off, just to leave you with a little something that happened at a couple of All Saints church lunchtime co...
18/07/2026

Before I sign off, just to leave you with a little something that happened at a couple of All Saints church lunchtime concerts. Our Brighton Voices MD, Nelson Wong playing flutes and organ (4 June) and our interim MD, Michael Maine playing the organ (16 July).
In the meantime, have a lovely summer…and we will be back Weds 9 Sept.
⏰Wednesday evenings, 7pm – 9pm. Note the new earlier time!
📍All Saints Church, The Drive, Hove, BN3-3QE
Rehearsing Rutter’s Requiem for a concert Sat 7 Nov
🌐https://brightonvoices.org/

Just a quick post regarding the Brighton Voices concert last Saturday (11th) our AGM this Wednesday (15th) AND Michael M...
13/07/2026

Just a quick post regarding the Brighton Voices concert last Saturday (11th) our AGM this Wednesday (15th) AND Michael Maine’s lunchtime concert this Thursday (16th).
Firstly, to say well done everyone for braving the heatwave to either sing / play in, or come to experience the concert at All Saints Church Hove on Saturday. I hear everyone had a lovely time and what a great diverse programme:
Gabriel Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Kat Carson solos: Fauré: Les Berceaux, Le Secret and Notre Amour
Franz Schubert: Mass in G
Michael Maine, organ: A. Herbert Brewer: Marche Heroĩque
Edward Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands
A big thanks go to MD Nelson Wong, soloists Kat Carson, Michael Maine, Dan Vincent and Nick Houghton, accompanist.
📸 by John Thrussell at the rehearsal.
Secondly, given the England v Argentina World Cup football game this Weds, which would clash with our AGM, this will still go ahead at All Saints Church Hove, but at the earlier time of 6.30pm, so everyone can get home before kick-off! Those unable to attend, please see the recent email regarding absent voting.
And last but not least, come along to hear Michael Maine this Thurs, 1pm for what will be a splendid lunchtime concert, on the All Saints Church Hove organ. Donations of £5 is suggested and One Bread café will be open for lunch and refreshments.

Today is the day of the Brighton Voices All Saints Church Hove concert, 7pm. Tickets £10 www.ticketsource.com/brighton-...
11/07/2026

Today is the day of the Brighton Voices All Saints Church Hove concert, 7pm. Tickets £10 www.ticketsource.com/brighton-voices or phone: 0333 666 3366 or on the door.
With Schubert’s Mass in G, Elgar’s From the Bavarian Highlands and Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine. Which is a composition for mixed choir and piano or organ by 19-year-old French composer Gabriel Fauré, for which he received first prize in an 1865 contest at his school of church music, Paris. The title refers to its text, which is an elegant 17th-century French poetic paraphrase of a Latin liturgical hymn, by the renowned French dramatist Jean-Baptiste Racine.
Also in the programme, our soprano soloist Kat Carson will also sing Fauré’s Trois Mélodies, which explores completely different facets of human emotion and love: Les Berceaux (longing of the sea), Le Secret (the tenderness of romantic secrecy) and Notre Amour (the joyful ecstasy of love).
And our tenor soloist Michael Maine, will be playing Marche Heroĩque by A. Herbert Brewer, on the organ.
Joining Kat and Michael this time will be Dan Vincent (baritone) and Nick Houghton (piano and organ).
Dan is a student who’s sung with Brighton Festival Chorus for a number of years, having been taught by Nick Andrews. He is a particular fan of Fauré’s more operatic work and the art songs of Finzi and Vaughan Williams. In October he’s heading off to Oxford University to study biomedical sciences but hold a choral scholarship to University College, so will continue his passion for choral singing there.
Nick is a highly active professional choral director, organist, and continuo player. He has been the Musical Director of the Brighton Orpheus Choir since 2022. Alongside this role, he directs several other prominent regional choirs, runs choral workshops and maintains a busy freelance performance and accompanying schedule.
📸 Nelson Wong our Brighton Voice MD is taking up his baton once again / Dan / Nick / Fauré and Racine / Today’s programme / poster

With only a week away have you got your ticket yet? Brighton Voices will be at All Saints Church Hove, Sat 11 July, 7pm ...
04/07/2026

With only a week away have you got your ticket yet? Brighton Voices will be at All Saints Church Hove, Sat 11 July, 7pm for their second Schubert’s Mass in G, and Elgar’s From the Bavarian Highlands concert. This time pairing them with Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine, and his Trois Mélodies: Les Berceaux, Le Secret and Notre Amour.
Tickets £10 www.ticketsource.com/brighton-voices or phone: 0333 666 3366 or on the door.
And here is the fourth and final instalment of some interesting facts on Elgar.
*He was knighted by King Edward VII in 1904.
*In 1905 he became the very first Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham.
*He was one of the first composers to fully embrace recorded music. With HMV in 1920 he conducted the premiere recording of the Cello Concerto, which only became popular after Jacqueline Du Pré got hold of it in 1965. He also recorded the 'Enigma' Variations and Falstaff.
*Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major (1901) was the first music ever to be recorded at Abbey Road Studios.
*In 1962 film director Ken Russell made a film of Elgar's life for the BBC, and it has been re-released on DVD.
*In 1923 Elgar made a little-documented trip to South America, where he embarked upon a cruise of the Amazon River. The event was fictionalised in James Hamilton-Patterson's novel 'Gerontius’.
*Even on his deathbed in 1934, he was involved in his music, with a landline connected between his home and Abbey Road Studios to hear recordings of his works.
* He was working on a Third Symphony when he died, which remained incomplete.
*He is buried with his wife Alice at St. Wulstan's Roman Catholic Church in Little Malvern.
*From 22 June 1999 until 30 June 2010, Elgar's moustachioed face adorned a standard £20 note in the UK alongside a vignette of Worcester Cathedral, when he was replaced by the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith.
📸 With daughter Carice Irene Elgar Blake / 1981 bronze statue: High Street, Worcester; where he is looking at the cathedral that he loved and conducted during the Three Choirs Festival

Just two weeks away till our next Brighton Voices concert at All Saints Church Hove, Sat 11 July, 7pm. Tickets £10 www....
27/06/2026

Just two weeks away till our next Brighton Voices concert at All Saints Church Hove, Sat 11 July, 7pm. Tickets £10 www.ticketsource.com/brighton-voices or phone: 0333 666 3366 or on the door.
In the meantime, today is the third instalment of some interesting facts on Elgar.
*He was a passionate fan of Wolverhampton Wanderers FC and wrote the song “He Banged the Leather for Goal” in honor of the club's striker Billy Malpass. Although, his motives for coming to see Wolves may not have been entirely related to football. He was reported to be a bit of a ladies’ man - and had an eye for the Rector of Wolverhampton's daughter, Dora Penny.
*He liked sport: he played golf (you can see his clubs in the Elgar Birthplace Museum), and was interested in horse racing.
*He was a devoted pet owner who famously left letters for his white pet rabbit, Peter, gave him a hot-water bottle for his hutch, and often referred to the rabbit as his alter ego, "Pietro d'Alba".
*Always a dog lover, but his wife didn’t like them. When she passed away, he got a spaniel called Marco, as well as Cairn and Aberdeen Terriers Mina and Meg. He famously wished them good night during a live BBC radio broadcast on his 70th birthday. He also composed a piece in 1933 titled Mina in her honour, which was among his last recording. On another occasion, when dining at a fancy Club, he received an urgent phone call. When he took the call, fellow diners could hear loud barking from the background and Elgar firmly telling someone to stop biting the cushions. According to the animal writer Rowland Jones c.1930, "At tea-time the three dogs would line up in front of Sir Edward, who sits on the arm of a couch and gives them sweet biscuits and cake. At a word they simultaneously rise up like soldiers and stand at attention. A friend calls them The Three Musketeers because of this trick."
*In 1900 he took delivery of a brand-new Royal Sunbeam bicycle, which he nicknamed 'Mr Phoebus'. 📸 Post Mr Phoebus, his 1903 new bicycle.
*Known for his “Enigma Variations” and “Land of Hope and Glory," he was an amateur chemist who set up a laboratory in his shed to conduct experiments, creating a device known as the "Elgar Sulphuretted Hydrogen Apparatus", a device for synthesising hydrogen sulphide that briefly went into production.

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