What a busy week! I had a great time last night performing Dowland with Chansons Perth and AraoeLM in Perth! Below is a clip from a recording with 17thCenturySymposium for their symposium last Friday. Full concert with Roslyn Potter, iuchair, and Dr Andy Bull in the link below 👇

We open our 2022–23 season on Saturday October 1st at 7:30 pm in the delightful setting of St John's Kirk, with an evening of choral music featuring Bach's ‘Jesu Meine Freude’ and Mozart's Missa Brevis in D major.

We will be joined by professional soloists: soprano Colleen Nicoll, mezzo-soprano Ulrike Wutscher, tenor David Douglas and baritone Phil Gault. Instrumental accompaniment is led by organist Kevin Duggan and cellist Susan Smart, with string players from the City of Perth Sinfonia.

To learn more and buy tickets go to chansons.co.uk/2022_autumn_co…

Did you know carols can be traced back to 4th century Rome? In Britain, in the Middle Ages, they were sung by Wassailers who visited from house to house, singing songs in return for food and beer.

'Personent hodie', the oldest carol in Chansons' upcoming concert, was originally published in 1582 in Finnish song book Piae Cantiones, but has roots that date as far back to the 12th century.

Join us on Saturday December 17th at 7.30pm in St Ninian's Cathedral Perth to enjoy 'Christmas and All That Jazz!' a seasonal delight of carols olde and new!

The "Sans Day Carol",a traditional Cornish Christmas carol, is named after the Cornish village of St Day in the parish of Gwennap.

The composer of the carol and its melody are lost to time, but it was first collected and transcribed by Gilbert Hunter Doble from the singing of W.D. Watson; the Borough of Penzance's Head Gardener.

He had learnt it during the early 1900s from Thomas Beard, a villager living in St Day, from which it took its name.

Just one of the much loved carols in arrangements olde and new, being performed by Chansons on Saturday December 17th at 7.30pm in St Ninian's Perth

Thank you to all who braved the snow and ice to come to our Christmas concert and helped to make it such an enjoyable evening. From numerous comments and feedback, it's clear the concert very much enjoyed. ​Read Ian Stuart Hunter's review here chansons.co.uk/blog.html

Date for your diary : Saturday April 29th...

Join our spring concert on Saturday April 29th in the beautiful acoustic of Perth's St John's Kirk when we perform Eric Whitacre’s ‘Sleep’, 'The Ground' based on a chorale from Ola Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass and Morten Lauridsen’s ‘Chansons des Roses’.

Led by music director Areti Lymperopoulou with piano accompaniment by Gordon Murch, we will sing additional pieces by Holst, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten.

Get tickets from chansons.co.uk or via the recently launched Perthshire Box Office : perththeatreandconcerthall.com/perthshire-box….

Fauré's Requiem remains a work of timeless elegance and hope, and we invite you to join Chanson, Perth's Chamber Choir, in the beautiful acoustic setting of Perth's St John's Kirk to experience for yourself, one of the best loved and most popular choral works of the 20th century.