BRIGHTON FESTIVAL YOUTH CHOIR perform at BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2025 A selection of favourite and lesser known works by composers – from Vaughan Williams, Stanford and Elizabeth Poston to Mia Makaroff, Fleet Foxes and Jeff Lynne’s Mr Blue Sky. The bright-eyed songsters of the Brighton Festival Youth Choir invite you into a wonderful world of birds, butterflies and blue skies above a landscape of woods, roses and apple trees. Music Director Juliette Pochin Pianist Nick Andrews
BRIGHTON FESTIVAL 2025 Grammy Award-winning maestro Ludovic Morlot’s nature-themed programme including American eco-activist composer John Luther Adams’s choral prayers to Mother Earth and her endangered species. The new choral epic Vespers of the Blessed Earth by John Luther Adams turns images of clouds, canyons and endangered birds into sounds of soul-shaking beauty… Rather than prayers to the blessed virgin, these are vespers to the blessed earth.
Brighton Festival Chorus join Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra in Walton’s roller-coaster score. Decadent syncopations; a swooping, full-throttle choir; and clattering percussion, slippery trombones, wah-wah trumpets and grooving saxophone. Our soloist is the young American baritone Cody Quattlebaum, fresh from San Francisco Opera and English National Opera, and one of the brightest talents around. British conductor Ben Gernon, a frequent performer at the Proms with the BBC Symphony and BBC Philharmonic, debuted recently with the Vienna Symphony & Royal Stockholm Philharmonic.
Join the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Brighton Festival Chorus with renowned mezzo-soprano Juliette Pochin and special guest singers for our annual joyful celebration of Christmas, conducted by James Morgan. Come and sing along to all your favourite carols, rousing fanfares and Yuletide songs. We’ll read out your best and worst Christmas jokes and you could try your hand at conducting!
Celebrate the festive season with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Brighton Festival Chorus and Youth Choir in this sparkling family-friendly concert Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Brighton Festival Chorus Brighton Festival Youth Choir Conductor James Morgan Mezzo Soprano Juliette Pochin
Gather the fellowship to experience epic and inspirational music from The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and Game of Thrones. The worlds of TV, film and fantasy are brought to life in one concert to rule them all, featuring The London Concert Orchestra, and conducted by Toby Purser. There’s music from a whole suite of fantasy favourites, including The Witcher, Dragonheart, The Chronicles of Narnia, How to Train Your Dragon, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars and Avatar.
Vaughan Williams said that folk song ‘opened the door’ to discovering his own compositional style. Its spirit certainly hovers over The Lark Ascending, part apotheosis of the English pastoral tradition, part elegy for the folksong-singing culture that the Great War destroyed. A decade later, Brighton-born Frank Bridge wrote a folk-inflected lament for Shakespeare’s Ophelia, still singing ‘snatches of old tunes’ even as she drowns. By 1936, the idyll was over and VW’s cantata Dona nobis pacem offers a desperate plea for peace in a world hurtling towards war.
With Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, a stellar cast of solo singers and the brilliant conductor and harpsichordist Robert Howarth, this is an event in the calendar not to be missed. The searing story of Christ’s betrayal, Last Supper, arrest and death is wrapped in some of Bach’s greatest and most moving music: it can be noble, passionate, tragic, intimate and ultimately meditative. It’s tour de force for every performer onstage. James Oxley: Evangelist Matthew Brook: Christus Lisa Howarth: soprano Patrick Terry: countertenor Guy Cutting: tenor Ashley Riches: bass Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra Brighton Festival Chorus
Celebrate the festive season with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Brighton Festival Chorus and Youth Choir in this family-friendly concer. Enjoy all your favourite carols and Christmas songs, hear your best (or worst) Christmas jokes read out, and you may even be asked to try your hand at conducting … Soloist Juliette Pochin Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Brighton Festival Chorus Brighton Festival Youth Choir