Sonare

For the joy of a ca****la choral music, and for the love of singing.

29/04/2026

Roll up, roll up! We’re having an early Bank Holiday celebration 🥳

Between now and next Tuesday, we’re offering a 2-4-1 on advance general entry tickets. So, if you were on the fence about whether to book, it’s just become a no-brainer! An entire concert for less than the price of a London pint?!

Visit our website, Skiddle or Eventbrite to book your tickets. We’re so excited for next Friday - can’t wait to see you there. 💛

28/04/2026

Our Musica Poetica programme is all about digging into the relationships between words and music, so over the next few days we're going to be celebrating some of the poets who we most love singing.

What better place to start than this guy, the OG, William 'Big Billy' Shakespeare? So many great composers have set his words to music across the centuries, and we have two wonderful examples - EJ Moeran's Sigh No More Ladies and Charles Wood's How Sweet the Moonlight.

The Wood, which uses words from The Merchant of Venice, is a hidden gem, and really captures the magic of Shakespeare's language. The evocative gentle consonants in words like 'sweet', 'soft' and 'stillness' are such gifts to us as performers and it's so much fun playing with these to set the mood.

Unbelievably, there are no commercially available recordings of this piece, so if you want to hear it your best bet is to come and see us! Our next performance is on Friday 8th May, 7pm at the Voces8 Centre in the City of London. There are no better acoustics to do justice to this marriage of music and poetry - we hope to see you there!

21/04/2026

Hey there! We’ve had a lovely lot of new followers recently and wanted to say hi ☺️

We’re Sonare, a professional a ca****la choral quartet. We formed in 2021 after three of us originally met as scholars, and we’ve been touring the country ever since - our sixth season is currently underway!

We love to perform innovative programmes that combine unexpected bits of music together. We’ve combined an African-American spiritual by Undine Smith-Moore, Austrian Romantic composer Hugo Wolf, and an arrangement of Ray Charles’ “Georgia on My Mind” together, and blown people’s minds a bit!

Thanks for being here - we’ve got so much good music coming up for you over the next few months. If you want to see us in person, and you love a discount, why not book your ticket for our concert at the Voces8 Centre on the 8th May?

We’re off to rehearse for that shortly and hopefully share a bit of the process with you. See you soon 🎶

18/04/2026

Just under 3 weeks to go til Friday 8th May, and the next performance of Musica Poetica at the Voces8 centre in London!

At Sonare HQ we do love a collage post (scroll down to see our Maestra: 900 Years of Female composers masterpiece!) - it’s so awesome to see the people from across the globe and the centuries whose music we’re still performing in 2026.

One end of the spectrum sees us heading back to 16th century Italy, then we zoom all the way forward to Manchester in 1998 (the birthplace of our Stella, whose piece we’re performing!). And just about everything in between.

The advance discount for tickets is up and running on the website now - can’t wait to see you there. 💛

15/04/2026

Please excuse the slightly tinny recording, but we couldn’t resist sharing a little iPhone video taken from last Saturday’s performance of Musica Poetica in Farlington, Hampshire.

We have so much joy singing our pop arrangements. The Beatles, Elvis and Ray Charles among others have all featured in our back catalogue, and now it’s time for a bit of Bob Dylan.

As Bob said in his Nobel Prize speech, so we’ll echo now -

I return once again to the Ancient Greek poet Homer, who says, “Sing in me, oh Muse, and through me tell the story.”

28/02/2026

What an absolute BLAST today at for a reprisal of our My Soul, There Is a Country: The Very Best of British!

A full house, a lot of smiling people and a lot of love for The Beatles encore.

A happy quartet this Saturday night! 💛

16/01/2026

Our multi talented mezzo & composer Stella, here talking about her own piece, “This is no place of honour”. We first performed this as part of our Maestra: 900 Years of Female Composers tour back in 2022 and we’re so looking forward to reprising it as part of Musica Poetica.

This concludes our week of BTS talks on our new concert programme - we hope you’ve enjoyed getting a glimpse behind the curtain! We can’t wait to see you tomorrow, or at another date over the coming months.

Happy Friday! 🍸

15/01/2026

…Four faces telling four different stories mid rehearsal 😅

Final prep for Musica Poetica kicking off on Saturday ❤️

14/01/2026

Have a listen to our tenor Andrew talking about why French birds (and we don’t mean Marion Cotillard) sound so great… and then come and listen to us doing our best imitations of them over the next two weekends!

Our advance booking discount is available right through to the day of our concerts, and we also have a discount available online and on the door for under 35s.

Start your 2026 with a better tweet than Elon Musk could ever manage! 🎶

13/01/2026

Day two in the countdown to starting this year’s Musica Poetica, and soprano Vicki is talking about all things to do with movie soundtracks, Nobel Prizes and singing in made up languages!

This Saturday 17th January in Lee and Saturday 24th in Crawley - get your 10% discount for advance bookings. Can’t wait to see you 🎶

12/01/2026

Our bass George, giving you a little intro to the Musica Poetica tour starting this coming Saturday… we’re in London this weekend - do come along for what promises to be a really special new programme. 💛

12/12/2025

A selfie on the way back from Hollingbourne’s fantastic Christmas concert and I’ve just discovered you can turn pictures into anime. I could be here a while…

Thank you once again Hollingbourne for being such fantastic hosts! So nice to see faces that came last year, and who’ve already asked us if next year is on the cards 😍 lovely festive time had by all!

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