Concert on 18 December 2004
Programme
- Sweelink — Hodie Christus natus est
- Traditional — I saw a maiden sitten and sing
- Traditional — Rocking
- Traditional — Sussex Carol
- Johann Sebastian Bach — Organ Prelude in C major
- Villette — Hymne à la Vierge
- Traditional — Ding Dong! merrily on high
- Ballet — Lute Book Lullaby
- William Mathias — Sir Christèmas
- John Tavener — The Lamb
- William Walton — What Cheer?
- William James Kirkpatrick — Away in a manger
- John Rutter — Star Carol
- Harold E. Darke — In the Bleak Midwinter
- Traditional — Noël Nouvelet
- Samuel Scheidt — A Child is born in Bethlehem
- Traditional — Mary had a baby
- Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy — Hark the herald angels sing
Performers
Stephen Davies
Stephen Davies, a former chorister of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, and Music Scholar of Queen’s College, Oxford, was awarded a scholarship by the Austrian Institute to study with the great organist and composer Anton Heiller at the Academy of Music in Vienna. He has since been active both in the field of music education – particularly at St Olave’s School, Orpington, where he was Director of Music for seventeen years – and as an organ recitalist. In this capacity he has given concerts in major venues throughout Europe, in New York and in New Zealand. In 2017 he gave concerts in Estonia, Germany, and Norway, and last year he performed in King’s College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He founded the Sine Nomine Singers in 1994 and conducted this chamber choir for almost 20 years, giving concerts in local venues as well as in Estonia, France and Germany. He was Director of Music here at St George’s from 2002 to 2016.
From the programme of 15 October 2022.