Baritone soloist (Archangel Raphael and Adam)
St Andrew’s Church, Burgess Hill, Suffolk
A concert performance of Haydn’s master work, the Creation. Kieran will be singing both the solo baritone roles: Archangel Raphael, and Adam (the first man).
Burgess Hill Choral Society
Baritone soloist – Bach Cantata 182 Himmelskönig, sei willkommen
Charity Concert in aid of Macmillan: Masterpieces by J. S. Bach
Jesu, meine Freude
Orchestral Suite No.2
Cantata 182 Himmelskönig, sei willkommen
Stephen Jones conductor
Timothy Morgan counter-tenor
Joel Williams tenor
Kieran Rayner baritone
Hertfordshire Baroque Soloists
Diane Terry leader | Siu Peasgood flute
Rogers Covey-Crump continuo
Thames Philharmonic Choir
Louise Fuller soprano
Rosanna Cooper alto
Thomas Erlank tenor
Kieran Rayner bass
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Sweelinck: Hodie Christus Natus Est
Bryan Kelly: Abingdon Carols
Gabrieli: Hodie Christus Natus Est
Handel: Christmas music – Messiah
Thames Philharmonic Choir
Thames Festival Orchestra
Conductor: John Bate
Tickets: £20, £16, £5 (restricted view)
Concessions: £18, £14.50
Kingston Parish Church, Market Place, Kingston, KT1 1JP
7:30pm | 17 December 2016 | Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall
Theodora: Jennifer Coleman
Didymus: Feargal Mostyn-Williams
Irene: Polly Leech
Valens: Kieran Rayner
Septimus: Ben Smith
Join the RCM Oratorio Society for this concert setting of Handel’s Theodora performed with baroque orchestra.
The narrative of this 1750 oratorio follows the journey of one Christian woman’s path to martyrdom, and her quest for virtue in a time of Roman tyranny. Moved by her purity, the Roman soldier Didymus falls in love with Theodora, and betrays his own people trying to save her.
This compelling tale is one of Handel’s finest works – the composer himself ranked the final chorus of Act II ‘He saw the lovely youth’ far beyond The Messiah‘s famous ‘Hallelujah’. Do not miss what promises to be an evening of beautiful music and moving drama.
Image credit: Laura Loach
The Chichester Singers
Haydn – Creation
Conductor: Jonathan Wilcocks
Burgess Hill Choral Society
Kieran will sing the baritone solos in Handel’s masterpiece, The Messiah.
United Reformed Church
Junction Road
Burgess Hill
West Sussex
RH15 0JS
COME AND SING – ORFF’S CARMINA BURANA
SOLOISTS:
Josephine Goddard – Soprano
Richard Pinkstone – Tenor
Kieran Rayner – Baritone
Mayfield Festival Choir invite you to a day of medieval debauchery as seen through the eyes of the Turbulent Thirties.
This event marks the 80th anniversary of the first performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. The music of this scenic cantata is known just as well for its accompaniment of the 1970s Old Spice advertisement (the octogenarian Orff must have been so proud!) as for its many appearances in concert halls around the world. The 11th-13th century poems are about wealth, eating, drinking, gambling, and lust – timeless subjects indeed. The virtuoso choir writing is complemented by three solo voices, all of whom push the envelope with their peculiarly high vocal ranges. And in this performance, the 1956 instrumentation will be used: authorized by the composer, in this version two pianos are joined by six percussionists. The sounds are raw and orgiastic; the percussive sound of the grand pianos is matched by six percussionists playing for all they’re worth: an electrifying soundworld that is both primitive and sophisticated at the same time.
http://www.epsomchoral.org.uk/concerts.shtml
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
Princes Risborough Music Society
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Marlow Choral Society
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
SOLOISTS:
Soprano – Josephine Goddard
Tenor – Richard Pinkstone
Baritone – Kieran Rayner
Epsom Choral Society, accompanied by the Regent Sinfonia orchestra and six professional soloists and directed by Julian Collings are to perform Handel’s great oratorio “Israel in Egypt”. Kieran will sing one of the bass roles.
Kieran features as the title role in Mendelssohn’s epic oratorio Elijah.
Collegium Laureatum
Guildhall, Cambridge
Elijah: Kieran Rayner
Soprano: Zoë Freedman
Mezzo-soprano: Beth Moxon
Tenor: Richard Pinkstone
Brandenburg Choral Festival
St. Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square
Christopher Herrick – Conductor
Natasha Day – Soprano
Polly Leech – Mezzo-soprano
Joel Williams – Tenor
Kieran Rayner – Baritone
Twickenham Choral Society
The Brandenburg Choral Festival presents Mozart’s master oratorio in one of central London’s most beautiful venues.
Kieran will feature as the title role in Mendelssohn’s epic oratorio Elijah.
Burgess Hill Choral Society
Elijah: Kieran Rayner
Brandenburg Choral Festival
St. Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square
The Brandenburg Choral Festival presents Mozart’s master oratorio in one of central London’s most beautiful venues.
Brandenburg Choral Festival
St. Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square
The Brandenburg Choral Festival presents Mozart’s master oratorio in one of central London’s most beautiful venues.
Jose Aparicio conductor
Carleen Ebbs soprano
Sarah Court mezzo-soprano
Manase Latu tenor
Kieran Rayner baritone
In what has become a Christmas tradition for all of us, we once again revel in Handel’s enduring masterwork, Messiah. What better way to mark the festive season than with this great oratorio?
Probably the most well known work in the choral repertoire, its breadth includes both intimate arias and the immensely famous and stirring Hallelujah chorus. To our frequent attenders – welcome back! To those new to Messiah – please, do come join us, and see what the fuss is all about.
Jose Aparicio conductor
Carleen Ebbs soprano
Sarah Court mezzo-soprano
Manase Latu tenor
Kieran Rayner baritone
In what has become a Christmas tradition for all of us, we once again revel in Handel’s enduring masterwork, Messiah. What better way to mark the festive season than with this great oratorio?
Probably the most well known work in the choral repertoire, its breadth includes both intimate arias and the immensely famous and stirring Hallelujah chorus. To our frequent attenders – welcome back! To those new to Messiah – please, do come join us, and see what the fuss is all about.
Aldeburgh Voices
The Suffolk Ensemble
Charlotte Bowden soprano
Polly Leech mezzo-soprano
Joel Williams tenor
Kieran Rayner baritone
Ben Parry conductor
We open our Christmas Weekend with Handel’s rousing and uplifting oratorio, a cornerstone of the festive season. So hotly anticipated at its first performance that to increase capacity women were asked to wear dresses ‘without hoops’ and men not to wear their swords, Messiah remains one of the most popular works ever written. Come and enjoy it in the company of the hand-picked musicians of the Suffolk Ensemble, Aldeburgh Voices and soloists from the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme.
Fauré Requiem (baritone solo)
Vivace Chorus
Brandenburg Sinfonia
St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London
Handel Four Coronation Anthems
Suite in G ‘The Water Music’
Chandos Anthem No.9 O Praise ye the Lord
O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness from Chandos Anthem No.4
Handel’s glorious anthems, commissioned for the coronation of King George ll and Queen Caroline in 1727, are bold and extrovert befitting the grandeur and importance of the occasion. They proved instantly popular and Zadok the Priest has been performed at every coronation since 1727. Suffolk Baroque Players play two of Handel’s most popular orchestral works including the Suite in G major, better known as The Water Music.
Kieran will perform as the baritone soloist.
Fauré Requiem (baritone solo)
Brandenburg Sinfonia
St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London
Mozart Requiem (baritone solo)
Brandenburg Festival
St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London
Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk
Kieran will perform as the baritone soloist.
City of Bristol Choir
Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra
Catherine Black leader
Esther Mallett soprano
Annie Gill mezzo soprano
Nicholas Mulroy tenor
Kieran Rayner baritone
Conducted by David Ogden
W.A. Mozart Requiem
W.A. Mozart Ave Verum
Elgar Sospiri
In a poignant return to the concert platform, City of Bristol Choir marks its 30th anniversary season with a programme that includes the first piece that the choir ever performed – Mozart’s Requiem. The work is full of drama and exquisitely crafted music for soloists, choir and orchestra. Each hour-long performance also includes Mozart’s bite-sized masterpiece, his setting of the Ave Verum, and Elgar’s atmospheric and reflective orchestral work, Sospiri.
Tickets £10 for adults, £5 for students in full time education and under 18s, available from City of Bristol Choir’s online box office
City of Bristol Choir
Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra
Catherine Black leader
Esther Mallett soprano
Annie Gill mezzo soprano
Nicholas Mulroy tenor
Kieran Rayner baritone
Conducted by David Ogden
W.A. Mozart Requiem
W.A. Mozart Ave Verum
Elgar Sospiri
In a poignant return to the concert platform, City of Bristol Choir marks its 30th anniversary season with a programme that includes the first piece that the choir ever performed – Mozart’s Requiem. The work is full of drama and exquisitely crafted music for soloists, choir and orchestra. Each hour-long performance also includes Mozart’s bite-sized masterpiece, his setting of the Ave Verum, and Elgar’s atmospheric and reflective orchestral work, Sospiri.
Tickets £10 for adults, £5 for students in full time education and under 18s, available from City of Bristol Choir’s online box office
The German Choir of London and Coventry Cathedral Choir perform a new interpretation of J.S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion with an original libretto by playwright Ross McGregor, in Southwark Cathedral (7pm 17 March) and Coventry Cathedral (6pm 19 March).
Kieran Rayner will play Robert Scholl (Sophie’s father) and Möhr (an interrogator), as well as singing the bass arias.
Hans and Sophie Scholl are amongst the most famous personalities in Germany. Nearly every town has a Scholl Square, a Geschwister Scholl School, or a Sophie Scholl Street. Their lives are a set part of the German history curriculum in every school and every year new books, documentaries and films about their lives are published.
On May 9, 2021, it would have been Sophie Scholl’s 100th Birthday.
The lives of Hans and Sophie Scholl, founder of the White Rose resistance group, are widely unknown in the UK. That there was resistance in the public during NS time is for many British still news, having learnt at school mainly about the obeying Germans during the war and the enormous following for Hitler.
The German Choir of London wants to tell a different story.
For this concert the German Choir commissioned a play that accompanies J.S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion to highlight the story of Sophie Scholl, executed by the Gestapo in 1943 for opposing Hitler with a campaign of non-violence during the Second World War.
The concert will tell the story of Sophie, confined in Stadelheim Prison, Munich in the period before her death, through an original libretto created by playwright Ross McGregor, by combining letters, newspaper articles, the White Rose leaflets and court protocols with the music of J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.
This new interpretation will be performed with the German Choir of London and Coventry Cathedral Choir in Southwark Cathedral (17 March) and Coventry Cathedral (19 March). It will encourage us to remember that the courage of Sophie Scholl and her fellow conspirators is an inspiration through time, a reminder that fighting injustice, fighting against systems which are wrong, even against the greatest odds, is truly a message of our time.
The German Choir of London and Coventry Cathedral Choir perform a new interpretation of J.S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion with an original libretto by playwright Ross McGregor, in Southwark Cathedral (7pm 17 March) and Coventry Cathedral (6pm 19 March).
Kieran Rayner will play Robert Scholl (Sophie’s father) and Möhr (an interrogator), as well as singing the bass arias.
Hans and Sophie Scholl are amongst the most famous personalities in Germany. Nearly every town has a Scholl Square, a Geschwister Scholl School, or a Sophie Scholl Street. Their lives are a set part of the German history curriculum in every school and every year new books, documentaries and films about their lives are published.
On May 9, 2021, it would have been Sophie Scholl’s 100th Birthday.
The lives of Hans and Sophie Scholl, founder of the White Rose resistance group, are widely unknown in the UK. That there was resistance in the public during NS time is for many British still news, having learnt at school mainly about the obeying Germans during the war and the enormous following for Hitler.
The German Choir of London wants to tell a different story.
For this concert the German Choir commissioned a play that accompanies J.S. Bach’s St Matthew Passion to highlight the story of Sophie Scholl, executed by the Gestapo in 1943 for opposing Hitler with a campaign of non-violence during the Second World War.
The concert will tell the story of Sophie, confined in Stadelheim Prison, Munich in the period before her death, through an original libretto created by playwright Ross McGregor, by combining letters, newspaper articles, the White Rose leaflets and court protocols with the music of J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.
This new interpretation will be performed with the German Choir of London and Coventry Cathedral Choir in Southwark Cathedral (17 March) and Coventry Cathedral (19 March). It will encourage us to remember that the courage of Sophie Scholl and her fellow conspirators is an inspiration through time, a reminder that fighting injustice, fighting against systems which are wrong, even against the greatest odds, is truly a message of our time.
Conducted by Dominic Ellis-Peckham, Aldeburgh Voices, The Suffolk Ensemble and soloists perform selections from Bach’s three great Easter passions and Easter choral settings by composers from the 16th to 21st centuries: Victoria, Lotti, Bruckner, Copland and Taverner.
Join the critically acclaimed London Oriana Choir under Musical Director Dominic Peckham, The Meridian Sinfonia and an array of international soloists for Bach’s masterpiece as we look toward Eastertide.
Siân Dicker: soprano
Lotte Betts-Dean: mezzo-soprano
Will Wright: tenor
Kieran Rayner: bass
Peter Kirk: Evangelist