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EVENTS

• SPRING CONCERT
  Requiems by Maurice Duruflé and John Rutter
  4th April 2019
• CHRISTMAS CONCERT
  Benjamin Britten, Ceremony of Carols
  14th December 2019
  
• Southwark Park 150 Year Anniversary
  16th July 2019
  Southwark Park
  
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• SPRING CONCERT 2019
  Brahms, A German Requiem
  13th April 2019
  St James’ Church, Bermondsey
  SE16 4AA
  

• CHRISTMAS CONCERT 2018
  Alexander Lestrange, Wassail! Carols of Comfort and Joy
  Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Messe de Minuit de Noel
  15th December 2018
  St Mary’s Church, Rotherhithe,
  St Marychurch Street, SE16 4JE

• SUMMER CONCERT 2018
  Songs from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story,
  and more
  14th July 2018
  St. Peter’s Church, Bermondsey,
  Paradise Street, SE16 4QD

• Pictures from our Spring 2018 performance
  
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• SPRING CONCERT 2018
  JS Bach, St John Passion
  with RBCS Chamber Orchestra
  and specially invited soloists.
  Saturday 14 April 2018, 7pm.
  St James’s Church, Bermondsey –
  Thurland Road, SE16 4AA.
  Click here to download a flyer.
  

• CAROL SINGING ROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE
  in Trafalgar Square
  Thursday 21 December 2017, 7–8pm.

• WINTER CONCERT 2017
  Seasonal music including Francis Poulenc’s Christmas Motets
  (Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël)
  Saturday 2 December 2017, 7pm,
  St Mary’s Church, Rotherhithe – St Marychurch Street, SE16 4JE.

• ILLUMINATE ROTHERHITHE 2017
  On 23 November, members of RBCS took part in the Mayflower Concert at St Mary’s Church – part of the inaugural Illuminate Rotherhithe festival.
  Click on the image below to watch a video of the concert.
  

• SUMMER CONCERT 2017
  Carl Orff’s  Carmina Burana and music from mediaeval Europe

RBCS Community Choir
directed by Sue Heath-Downey
plus the wonderful Boutcher Primary School Choir
with soloists Kirsty McLean (soprano) and Panos Ntourntoufis (tenor)
accompanied by percussion and two pianos

TIME: Saturday 8 July 2017, 7.30
PLACE: St Peter and the Guardian Angels Church,
Paradise Street, SE16 4QD
(off King’s Stairs Gardens, near The Angel pub)

Download a flyer here.

• Make Music Day ‘Come and Sing’ workshop
  Wednesday 21 June 2017
• Spring Concert
  Saturday 1 April 2016, 7pm,
  St James’s Church, Bermondsey – Thurland Road, SE16 4AA.
• Christmas Concert
  Saturday 17 December 2016, 7pm,
  St Mary’s Church, Rotherhithe – St Marychurch Street, SE16 4JE.
  
  

• Concert
  
  RBCS presents a selection of holy and unholy music and readings in a secret subterranean chamber
  Wednesday 14 September 2016, 7:30pm
  The Thames Tunnel Sinking Shaft, Brunel Museum, London, SE16 4LF
  Part of Isambard Brunel dans son cabaret for Totally Thames festival
  
• Summer concert: Music to celebrate William Shakespeare  (d. 1616) and local hero Ada Salter (b. 1856)
  Saturday 16 July 2016, 7.30pm,
  St Peter and the Guardian Angels Church, Paradise Street, Bermondsey, SE16 4QD (off King’s Stairs Gardens, near The Angel pub)
  Photography by Bryn Bird
  
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• Come-and-sing workshop: choruses from Handel’s Messiah
  ‘Instant choir’ workshop, Saturday 13th February 2016, 2.30–5.30pm,
  St Mary’s Church, Rotherhithe – St Marychurch Street, SE16 4JE.
  Download a flyer with full details here.
  Part of the SEE16 Arts Festival 2016 – a community arts festival organised by I live in SE16
  
• Spring concert: Handel’s Messiah with orchestra and soloists
  Saturday 19th March 2016, 7pm,
  St James’s Church, Bermondsey – Thurland Road, SE16 4AA.
• RBCS ONLINE
  RBCS musical director, Sue Heath-Downey, was interviewed by IliveinSE16 website about  the choir and how it got started. Read all about it!

• RBCS IN THE COMMUNITY
  

On Saturday 19th September 2015, members of RBCS sang at Cherry Garden TRA Fun Day, to celebrate the refurbishment of the TRA Hall.

The organisers said, ‘A great big thanks to you and all your singers for your brilliant contribution to our Fun Day. It was such a lovely finale!‘

Thank you, Cherry Gardens TRA, for inviting us! We thoroughly enjoyed it.