RBCS is a friendly non-audition mixed-voice amateur community choir based in Rotherhithe, Southwark, south-east London.
Our aim is to practise and perform good music to suit a variety of tastes, and have a good time in the process.
We rehearse from 8.00 to 9.45 pm every Tuesday during term-time at the Time & Talents community centre, St Marychurch Street, Rotherhithe, SE16 4JE.
We’re taking a break for the summer now. We’ll be back on 12 September 2017, rehearsing music for our December concert (exact date to be arranged), to include Francis Poulenc’s Christmas motets (Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël).
New members are always welcome for all voice parts. If you enjoy singing and are interested in joining us, please contact us, or just come along to our next rehearsal. See our Join us page for more details of membership.
NEWS
EVENTS
- 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
- 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.
RBCS and friends sing Verdi’s Requiem at St James’s, Bermondsey, 5th April 2014
Photography by Thea Downey
Singing in Brunel’s Thames Tunnel, May 2013
We are proud and honoured to have won a Southwark Civic Award for our community activities.
Please click on the image to see a full-scale version.
