Antiphon - an early music chamber choir based in the Tyne Valley

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STOP PRESS Saturday September 12, 2009 - 40 Part Motet by Striggio for the Historic Churches PreservationTrust steeplechase in Northumberland - Antiphon and friends. Allendale 10.30 rehearsal for 11am sing, Saint Andrew's Corbridge at 12.30pm; St Mary's Slaley at 2.45pm and Blanchland Abbey at 3.30pm. Saturday October 3, 2009 - The Cantata of the Creatures - a day workshop and performance for voices in St Andrews and St Peters Bywell, near Stocksfield, led by Antiphon & Misericordia. This is part of the Redundant Churches Commission national 40th Birthday Sing celebration - all singers welcome Saturday November 14, 2009 Baroque Concert 7.30pm in Hexham Abbey 'A Right Royal Celebration'- works of celebration by Handel and Purcell including Handel's Dixit Dominus, and Purcell's Love's Goddess Sure and My Heart is Inditing with strings and soloists. Guest conductor Philip Thorby, Head of Early Music at Trinity Music College, London. Concert on behalf of the Great North Air Ambulance Service. Tickets Ł12 (under 18s free). Joint ticket concert & workshop available, see workshop form for details. All welcome. Sunday November 15, 2009 Day Workshop led by Philip Thorby, Music of the Restoration 1660-1714- verse anthems and motets, including Purcell's My Beloved Spake and John Blow's God spake sometime in Visions Good choral singers welcome. Application form
Who are We? Antiphon, which is based in and around Hexham and the Tyne Valley, grew out of a few singers meeting to sing early church music. Judy Lloyd has a keen interest in performing sacred music of the Renaissance in the context of the church services for which it was originally written. This has given the choir the opportunity to sing in a number of beautiful Northumbrian churches from Bellingham and Thorneyburn to Corbridge, Warden and Brinkburn Priory. There have also been invitations to sing in churches in Gateshead and Newcastle. In 2006 we sang the Byrd 4 part Mass in the Basilica of St Francesco in Assisi and in October 2008 Antiphon toured some of the 12th century Romanesque cathedrals of Burgundy, singing Mass settings by Josquin, Dufay and Victoria.
Repertoire has included the Tallis and White Lamentations, masses by Josquin, Dufay and Palestrina and Victoria's Requiem as well as a wealth of motets and anthems by composers of the English and continental Renaissance.
	Concerts have also been organised on both a formal and informal basis in a variety of venues ranging from Hexham Abbey to private country houses and church halls allowing the choir to extend its repertoire to folk songs, madrigals and modern secular works to collaborate with instrumentalists and to reach audiences all over the county. We are also available to sing at weddings in the area and special events. Do ring to enquire. We are a sociable bunch of around 20 members and we are always pleased to audition good singers who share our love of early music and can sight sing well and hold a part. We practise on a Tuesday night in St John Lee church hall which is about 1 mile outside Hexham and our conductor is John Roper.

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