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NCS Come & Sing

Saturday 31st October 2026, 7:30pm, Newbury Methodist Church

John Rutter: Magnificat

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NCS Christmas Concert

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

Oliver Tarney: The Night Before Christmas
Christmas carols and songs for choir and organ/piano including audience carols 

Our 2026 - 2027 Season of Concerts

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. To listen to a full concert recording of The Girl from Aleppo click here.

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.

We performed Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and Bruckner's Te Deum on the 28th March at St Nicolas Church. It was a very exciting occasion with two pianos, six percussionists and stunning soloists. The Carmina Burana was very dramatic and the Te Deum challenging but wonderful to perform. To read the NWN concert review click here.

Our Summer Season programme of Shakespeare in Music, featuring  Bernstein: West Side Story Suite, Shearing: Songs & Sonnets & Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare songs was a triumph. The concert at St Nicolas Church on the 27th June 2026 also featured Thomas Morley's It was a lover and his lasse and 4 songs from Roger Quilter’s Three & Five Shakespeare songs and sung by our very own Joe Tobin. Also choir members read various sonnets between the pieces in the Shearing: Songs & Sonnets. To read the NWN concert review click here.

In September we start rehearsing John Rutter's Magnificat with our new music director Tom Edney. The Magnificat is new to NCS and it is very exciting to learn a new work especially with a new teacher. We will be very well schooled ready for the Come & Sing on the 31st October. We will also turn our attention to our Christmas concert on the 19th December learning  another new piece Oliver Tarney: The Night Before Christmas and other works. The audience can dust off their vocal chords for many traditional carols.

In April 2026 we will be performing Baroque works  Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria and Mariana Martinez: Dixit Dominus and in July a concert performing Edward Elgar: Sea Pictures (arr. Fraser), Cecilia McDowall: Ave Maris Stella, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Meg Blane and Rebecca Clarke: The Seal Man

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 31st October 2026, Newbury Methodist Church
Day runs from 10am - 4pm with a performance at 4:30pm

Come & Sing
Rutter: Magnificat

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

Christmas Concert
Oliver Tarney: The Night Before Christmas
Christmas carols and songs for choir and organ/piano including audience carols 

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Saturday 10th April 2027, 7:30pm, St Nicolas Church

Baroque masterworks
Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria
Mariana Martinez: Dixit Dominus  

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

Sea Pictures
Edward Elgar: Sea Pictures (arr. Fraser)
Cecilia McDowall: Ave Maris Stella
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Meg Blane
Rebecca Clarke: The Seal Man 

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

TBA

Concert Reviews
Dream of Gerontius Concert Image

Rev Alex Austin OSB

The choir sang really well throughout and with great variety from the exquisitely quiet entry of the first Kyrie to the rousing conclusion of Part One from the catholic last rites – Proficiscere when the priest sends the soul to the next world...

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Christmas 2024 Concert

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....

Full Review
Spring Season 2024 Concert Image

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....

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Summer Season 2024 Concert Image

Anne Ware

The choir were extremely responsive to Joe’s direction....

Congratulation to NCS who performed a challenging and varied programme with style and sensitivity....


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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.
To try and make buying concert tickets as flexible as possible, we have three ways to purchase tickets. Around two months before the concert, tickets are available online via the WeGotTicket & TicketTailor platforms, via choir members or email tickets@newburychoral.org.uk.

Our preferred method of sales is via a choir member, as there are no purchase fees involved and the full ticket price goes to the choir. We offer 4 types of tickets, 'Adult', 12-18, 'Under 12' and 18-22 in fulltime education (show your student card as proof).  We ask disabled and wheelchair users to buy a full-price ticket, however their partner or carer goes free.

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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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