Brighton Consort

09/09/2026

We're back in business tonight! We're now preparing for our next concert series, featuring beautiful Advent music (and some Carols too). Check the programme and dates on brightonconsort.org.uk/next-concert.

If you'd like to join us, please get in touch with our Musical Director Greg Skidmore at [email protected] to arrange for an audition as soon as practicable. We have openings in all parts.

05/07/2026

04/07/2026

All is ready at the beautiful St John the Evangelist Church in Preston Park for our RAISED VOICES - Music of Freedom and Belongings workshop! Looking forward to welcoming you all for an afternoon of great music.

brightonconsort.org.uk/raised-voices

03/07/2026

Looking for basses at our workshop tomorrow! All other parts are nicely represented (but we very much welcome everyone still), and we're ready to go for some excellent time.

Info and tickets at
brightonconsort.org.uk/raised-voices

26/06/2026

Join Brighton Consort for a day! We are giving a public workshop on Saturday, 4 July 2026.

Time: 1:30pm to 6:30pm

Venue: St John the Evangelist Church, Knoyle Road, Brighton, BN1 6RB

We will explore choral music inspired by - or grappling with - the promise of freedom and belonging found in the American Declaration of Independence. For 250 years, these ideas have been embraced, contested, and reclaimed by different people and for different causes. What does it mean to raise one’s voice for liberty? Who is allowed to join in? And how can we do so freely and yet together? Such questions have invited musical as well as philosophical answers and we would love to consider some of them with you this Fourth of July.

Current choir members will be attending but they will not have prepared in advance, so we are all in the same boat! The pieces we will study together include the wonderful "Sleep" by Whitacre and "O Magnum Mysterium" by Lauridsen. 

Full programme and tickets at brightonconsort.org.uk/raised-voices

10/06/2026

After a break since our last concert, we're now going to spend the next few weeks working on technique and starting preparing for our next concert, which will probably happen in early Advent. Victoria's stunning Alma Redemptoris Mater at 8 voices will feature in that and it's already candidate to be one of the best pieces of the programme! (Greg said it's his favourite piece by this amazing composer.)

But before that, join Brighton Consort for a day on this 4th July for our workshop RAISED VOICES: Music of Freedom and Belonging. We'll all be there and we'll all be reading new music, so no cheating by us!

Info and tickets at brightonconsort.org.uk/raised-voices

08/06/2026

Join Brighton Consort for a day! We are giving a public workshop on Saturday, 4 July 2026.

Time: 1:30pm to 6:30pm
Venue: St John the Evangelist Church, Knoyle Road, Brighton, BN1 6RB

We will explore choral music inspired by - or grappling with - the promise of freedom and belonging found in the American Declaration of Independence. For 250 years, these ideas have been embraced, contested, and reclaimed by different people and for different causes. What does it mean to raise one’s voice for liberty? Who is allowed to join in? And how can we do so freely and yet together? Such questions have invited musical as well as philosophical answers and we would love to consider some of them with you this Fourth of July.

"Now I make a leaf of Voices – for I have found nothing mightier than they are."
- Walt Whitman

Info and tickets at brightonconsort.org.uk/raised-voices

15/05/2026

One last rehearsal in the beautiful St Mary-de-Haura Church, Shoreham-by-Sea, before our concert tonight!

Join us at 7:30pm — doors open at 7:10pm.

Info and tickets at
brightonconsort.org.uk/next-concert

14/05/2026

Monteverdi’s take on the perennial clash between old and new, conservative and progressive, traditional and scandalous, was unique in ambition, audacity, and influence. Monteverdi’s modern music, while indeed breaking things, ushered in a way of thinking about what music is for at a fundamental level that has never left.

Pictured is the city of Mantua, where Monteverdi worked between 1590-1613 at the beginning of his career. You can hear, attached to this post, the ending of the wonderful Adoramus Te Christe, one of the religious pieces we perform in our programme MUSICA MODERNA: Monteverdi Moving Fast and Breaking Things.

Our last concert of this series is coming up this Friday 15 May, at St Mary-de-Haura, Shoreham-by-Sea!

Doors open at 7:10pm, concert starts at 7:30pm.

More info and tickets at
brightonconsort.org.uk/next-concert

13/05/2026

Our last performance of "MUSICA MODERNA:Monteverdi Moving Fast and Breaking Things" is coming up this Friday 15 May in Shoreham-by-Sea (St Mary-de-Haura Church)! Time for a last rehearsal...

Come have a listen! Doors open at 7:10 pm, we start at 7:30pm. Info, programme and tickets at brightonconsort.org.uk/next-concert

We can't wait to see you!