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NCS Spring Season Concert
Saturday 27th June 2026, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church, Newbury

Shakespeare in Music

Bernstein: West Side Story Suite
Shearing: Songs & Sonnets
Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs

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NCS Winter Season Concert
Saturday 19th December 2026, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church, Newbury

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Our 2025 - 2026 Season of Concerts

On Sunday the 15th December we performed our Christmas concert featuring a rich selection of traditional and well loved carols. The programme featured carols sung a capella and with the church organ, expertly played by Steve Bowey.  We were joined by soprano and alto soloists, Laura and Jess from our choral scholars programme. With a audience of over 230 and audience participation made a wonderful accompaniment to the choir and the roof was indeed raised.


Our Spring Season was Elgar's Dream of Gerontius which we performed at St Nicolas Church, Newbury on the 12th April, with professional orchestra and soloists. We said it was going to be a fantastic evening of music and indeed it was. The orchestra and soloists were amazing and the choir and semi chorus gave a wonderful performance.

Our Summer Season concert was in St Nicolas Church, Newbury on the 28th June, where we performed three contemporary pieces on the theme of journeys. The pieces are Bob Chilcott: The Voyage, Cecilia McDowall: The Girl from Aleppo and Stephen Paulus: The Road Home

Our Winter season concert this year was in Advent and we performed Bach's Christmas Oratorio in St Nicolas Church, Newbury on the 29th November. It was a wonderful evening of music with the choir on fine form, 4 stunning soloists and the baroque orchestra playing on period instruments.

After performing Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and Bruckner's Te Deum on the 28th March at St Nicolas Church we now turn our attention to the summer season, rehearsing a programme of Shakespeare in Music. We will perform three works, Bernstein: West Side Story Suite, Shearing: Songs & Sonnets and Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs.

Please don't forget NCS has details of its entire back catalogue of performances which can be searched by date, work, composer and conductor. It even has details of the professional and choir soloists and orchestras along with concert reviews and concert programmes in PDF format. The earliest programme available is 1905. Click here to access the database.

Concert Diary

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Saturday 27th June 2026, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church

Bernstein: West Side Story Suite
Shearing: Songs & Sonnets
Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs

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Saturday 19th December 2026, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church

TBA

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Saturday 13th March 2027, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church

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Saturday 3rd July 2027, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church

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Saturday 18th December 2027, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church

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Concert Reviews

John P Lawler

The voices of the choir, harmonious and powerful, resonated throughout the hall, filling every corner with warmth. The choirs balance and blend were impeccable, a testament to the dedication and rigorous rehearsals....

Newbury Weekly News

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Derick Ansell

Beginning slowly, gently, conductor Joe Tobin coaxed a well structured, eloquent performance from choir and orchestra throughout. A powerful sound from the orchestra was juxtaposed with clean, lean voices from the choir....

Newbury Weekly News

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Anne Ware

Sumsion’s “They that go down to the sea in ships” is another dramatic setting and a masterclass in word painting. The choir were extremely responsive to Joe’s direction....
Congratulation to NCS who performed a challenging and varied programme with style and sensitivity....

Newbury Weekly News

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Concert Tickets

Adult - £18
12 - 18 £10
18 - 22 in full time education £10
Under 12 - £5

We have not increased our ticket prices for many years, however in that time the cost of putting on performances has continued to rise and as a result we have had to make the decision to increase them from September 2025. We have introduced a new tier of ticket to cover people in school, college and university.
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Concert Venues

We split our year into three seasons, spring, summer and winter, where we rehearse the programme and perform it at an end-of season concert. We mainly have two concert venues, St Nicolas Church, Newbury and Douai Abbey, Upper Woolhampton, the latter used for the summer season.

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