Current Season Concerts

JUNE Delights

Saturday 27 June 2026 at 19.30

St John’s Church, Ranmoor

A special programme of delightful music in the gorgeous acoustic of St. John’s Church, Ranmoor.  Enjoy Jonathan Dove’s beautiful Seek him that maketh the seven stars, the magnificent Missa Festiva for choir, organ and brass, by Belgian composer Flor Peeters, and other choral and organ works by Fauré, Mathias and Vaughan Williams.

• William Matthias – Lift up your heads

• Jonathan Dove – Seek Him that maketh the seven stars

• Organ: Louis Vierne – Claire de lune, 24 Pieces de Fantaisie op. 53, no. 5

• Gabriel Fauré – Ave Maria, for male voices

• Gabriel Fauré – Tantum Ergo Op.65 no.2 for female voices

• Judith Weir – Two Human Hymns

INTERVAL

• Flor Peeters – Missa Festiva, Op.62

• Organ: Andre Guilmant –Pastorale and Final from Sonata no.1

• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Let all the Word in every corner sing

Celebrated organist Darius Battiwalla will accompany the choir and play the two sumptuous organ works, so this will be a concert not to miss!

• Sheffield Bach Choir
• Darius Battiwalla – Organist
• Phillip Collin – conductor

Tickets are available online, (booking fee payable) or you can pay on the door (card or cash). Adults £18, concessions £16, students £8 (Student Card required on entry), accompanied children free.

WORKSHOP: Rossini PETITE MESSE SOLONNELLE

Saturday 19 September 2026 at 7.30pm

Wesley Hall, Crookes

Our season begins with a full day workshop featuring Rossini’s wonderful Petite Messe Solonnelle, which the choir will present as a full concert in November. This will be a fun day, led by conductor Philip Collin, with breaks for drinks and cake and a chance to chat to fellow singers.

Scores will be available for hire, and workshop participants will be given information about joining the choir for the concert performance in November . 

• Sheffield Bach Choir
• Philip Collin – conductor

Tickets will be available online. Prices to be confirmed.

Rossini PETITE MESSE SOLONNELLE

Saturday 14 November 2026 at 7.30pm

St Mark’s Church Broomhill

Our first concert features Rossini’s wonderful Petite Messe Solonnelle, full of drama, passion, colour and intensity. Written some 30 years after his final opera composition, it’s a full mass which the composer  ironically entitled ‘petite’, describing it as one of his “sins of old age”.

• Sheffield Bach Choir
• Soloists to be announced
• Philip Collin – conductor

Tickets will be available online and on the door. Prices to be confirmed, accompanied children free.

COME SING MESSIAH

Monday 7 December 2026

St James’s Church Norton

The Choir is pleased to be able to present our popular  Come and Sing Messiah in St James’s Church, Norton once again. President George Nicholson will conduct and Music Director Philip Collin will play the organ. 

This is always a fun evening for lovers of Messiah, with mulled wine and mince pies available in the interval, so come along and sing your hearts out! 

• Professor George Nicholson – Conductor
• Philip Collin – Organ

Tickets will be available online (booking fee payable) and on the door, to include mulled wine and mince pies; scores will be available to hire.  

HANDEL – MESSIAH

Monday 14th December 2026 at 7pm

Cutler’s Hall Sheffield

Handel’s majestic Messiah needs no introduction and forms an essential art of the Christmas celebrations for many, with a sell out performance in the marvellous setting of Sheffield’s wonderful Cutler’s Hall last year. The choir is thrilled to have been invited back this year, and tickets will no doubt be very popular – the main hall looks marvellous at the best of times but is spectacular decorated for Christmas!  Given the choir’s legendary mastery of the work, the stage is set of a spectacular concert!

Composed in 1741 with text from the Bible, Messiah was first performed in Dublin in 1742 and has been performed countless times the world over ever since.

Make your Christmas celebrations complete by joining the choir, the National Festival Orchestra and a team of stunning soloists for this very special performance. There truly is nothing like hearing this magnificent choral work accompanied by a full orchestra, and  Sheffield’s historic Cutler’s Hall, ‘where historic grandeur meets timeless elegance’ will make it an extra special experience!

Refreshments will be available from the Cutler’s Hall bar before the concert and during the interval. 

Mistress Cutler Gina Jackson had this to say after last year’s performance: ” The hall normally has a buzz during our annual feast but tonight your choir beat that hands down .“

• Sheffield Bach Choir
• National Festival Orchestra
• Ruth Nicholson – Continuo
• to be announced – soloists
• Philip Collin – Conductor

Tickets will be available online or through choir members; it’s likely that few will be available on the door. Prices to be announced, accompanied children free.

BACH – ST JOHN PASSION

Saturday 13 March 2027 at 19.30

St Mark’s Broomhill

Described by John Elliot Gardiner as being “closer to theatre than anywhere else in his sacred music”, Bach’s St John Passion is full of dramatic tension with pauses for reflection and chorales providing response.  As one of his ‘big three’ it’s a must for lovers of baroque and choral music, and of course, of J.S Bach.

The Sheffield Bach Choir has performed this magnificent work every three years for over fifty years and over twenty with the wonderful National Festival Orchestra and choir and orchestra are well matched masters of the work. Sung in the original German as part of Classical Sheffield’s Classical Weekend festival 2027 and conducted by Phillip Collin, this will be one not to miss.

• Sheffield Bach Choir
• National Festival Orchestra
• to be announced – soloists
• Philip Collin – conductor

Tickets will be available online, prices to be announced, accompanied children free.

ELGAR – DREAM OF GERONTIUS

Saturday 19th June 2027 at 19.30

Victoria Hall, Sheffield

The season ends with a joint performance of Elgar’s masterpiece with Sheffield Oratorio Chorus, conducted by Philip Collin. 

Set to a poem by Cardinal John Henry Newman, it tracks the spiritual journey of an ordinary man’s soul from his deathbed, past judgment by God, and into Purgatory.

 Elgar imagined Gerontius to be an ordinary man. “Therefore, I’ve not filled his part with Church tunes and rubbish but a good, healthy full-blooded romantic, remembered worldliness.” The result is full of drama and some of Elgar’s most touching music, from the hushed opening to the sublime ‘Angel’s Farewell’. 

‘This is the best of me”, wrote Elgar ‘This, if anything of mine, is worth your memory.”

• Sheffield Bach Choir and Sheffield Oratorio Chorus
• orchestra to be announced
• soloists to be announced
• Philip Collin – conductor

Tickets will be available online and on the door, price to be determined. Accompanied children will be free

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