ONE OF THE UK’S LEADING SYMPHONY CHORUSES

Fauré - Requiem

Sunday 11th October, 2026. 4pm
Cadogan Hall, London.

Fauré – Requiem

Conductor : James Morgan
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Brighton Festival Chorus
Brighton Festival Youth Choir

Programme:
Gabriel Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine
Lili Boulanger  – Les Sirènes
Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis 
Fauré – Requiem  

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Antarctica : Vaughan Williams and Arvo Pärt

Sunday 6th December 2026, 2.45pm
Brighton Dome

Antarctica : Vaughan Williams and Arvo Pärt

Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra 2026/27 Season

Conductor : Joanna MacGregor
Soprano : Elizabeth Watts
Tanpura : Bishi
Visuals : Kathy Hinde
Women of the Brighton Festival Chorus

Programme:
Arvo Pärt La Sindone
Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela
Jonny Greenwood Water
Vaughan Williams Symphony No 7 ’Sinfonia Antarctica’

Vaughan Williams wrote a magnificent score for the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic, then transformed it into his 7th symphony, Sinfonia antartica five years later: a brooding work of genius. Man against implacable Nature had fascinated Vaughan Williams since the Sea Symphony of 1909 and his one-act opera of Synge’s Riders to the Sea in 1927. The expressive humanity in Scott’s doomed journey found its weight forty years later: music that’s uncanny and terrifying, as well as beautiful and rich. Brighton Festival Chorus’ ethereal female voices will join the exquisite lyric soprano Elizabeth Watts and Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Harmonium

Saturday 23rd January, 2027, 7.30pm
Brighton Dome

Adams – Harmonium

Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra 2026/27 Season

Conductor : Alice Farnham
Piano : Joanna MacGregor
Brighton Festival Chorus

Programme:
Avril Coleridge-Taylor Sussex Landscape
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.9
John Adams Harmonium

John Adams’ fierce, propulsive tour de force, Harmonium, has become one of today’s most iconic choral works. Setting poems by John Donne (Negative Love) and Emily Dickinson (Because I could not stop of Death, Wild Nights), it embraces an ocean of feeling, with unparalleled emotional intensity. John Adams calls Harmonium ‘a secular cantata’, and it demands a large and fearless choir.

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