YPC
@Yorksphilchoir
The Yorkshire Philharmonic Choir, directed by @Thom_Singer. Tuesdays @ 19:30-21:30 in #Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
Several YPC members have had a wonderful evening in Malton with @EricWhitacre today in his workshop as part of the Rydale Festival. Diane & Elaine were lucky to meet Eric afterwards. Wendy, Viv, Jess & Deborah also took part & really enjoyed singing Seal Lullaby & Sing Gently.🎶
Hope everyone is enjoying the summer break and making the most of the glorious weather!☀️ Here are a few more lovely photos from our ‘A Night at the Opera’ concert day last month. 📸 Photography: Matthew Good
⭐️🎶 NEW SEASON! After a wonderful final concert to the season, we are now on our summer break … but here is a look at what’s in store for 2025/26. Tickets available: yorkshirephilharmonicchoir.co.uk Tickets for the May concert hosted by HPO will be available later in the year. 🎶⭐️
🎭 For several weeks we have enjoyed the challenge of learning a selection of #opera choruses in Italian, French, German … and English, culminating in what must be one of our most breathtaking and life-affirming concerts ever. 📸 Credit to Matthew Good.
@Yorksphilchoir What a fantastic Night at the Opera we had! Breathtaking soloists, stirring choruses and a wonderful audience made it a very special evening. One of our highlights YPC 😍
🎭🎶🎭 A NIGHT AT THE OPERA’ with YPC is only a week away and promises to be an exhilarating evening of the very best opera favourites! Saturday, 14th June - 7pm, @WakeCathedral. 🎫Tickets available: yorkshirephilharmonicchoir.co.uk
Meet our soloists who will be performing with YPC on 14th June. Tickets now on sale: yorkshirephilharmonicchoir.co.uk @WakeCathedral #choir #choral #music #opera
From #Purcell to #Bizet, #Verdi to #Wagner, we have a stunning selection of choruses and arias from the wonderful world of #opera! Tickets now available - yorkshirephilharmonicchoir.co.uk @WakeCathedral
Rehearsing opera choruses is great fun and an opportunity to sing in other languages. We’re getting into character with our best French in Bizet’s March of the Toreadors and Italian for Verdi’s Brindisi. Tickets: 🎟️ yorkshirephilharmonicchoir.co.uk
MEET OUR SOLOISTS 😃🎶… Saturday’s performance of Handel’s ‘Israel in Egypt’ was a great success all round and our soloists were truly magnificent and an inspiration to us all. 📸 Photographs by Matthew Good
☀️🎶. HANDEL - ISRAEL IN EGYPT 🎶☀️ Saturday’s performance of Handel’s ‘Israel in Egypt’ was a huge success and was well received by an appreciative audience who delighted in the energy and musicality given by all performers. 📹 Neil Ogilvy
Happy smiles from YPC members as they prepared for Saturday’s concert at Wakefield Cathedral - Handel’s ‘Israel in Egypt’.
This SATURDAY … YPC will be performing Handel’s ‘Israel in Egypt’. The sheer scale of the work, with its double chorus and virtuosic demands on the singers, is breathtaking. It is a kaleidoscope of musical styles, showcasing Handel at his best. yorkshirephilharmonicchoir.co.uk
Meet our soloists who will be performing with us on 29th March in Handel’s Israel in Egypt. Clare Wheat (Soprano) Beth Moxon (Alto) Austin Gunn (Tenor) Neil Balfour (Bass). Tickets now available: yorkshirephilharmonicchoir.co.uk
‘Israel in Egypt’ is a vivid biblical epic with Handel at his most inventive, depicting plagues of flies, lice, locusts, frogs and hailstones through his music! Much of the oratorio is scored for double-choir which adds to the drama … unmissable! 🪰🦗🐸🌨️🪰🦗🐸🌨️🪰🦗🐸🌨️🪰🦗🐸
YPC will be performing Handel’s Israel in Egypt on Sat 29th March. A taster of the wonderfully dramatic choruses is sung here… 🎟️ Tickets on sale from choir members or via our website. Monteverdi Choir – Handel: Israel in Egypt – Sing ye to the Lord youtu.be/gyMeTHx-g_o?fe…
Rehearsals are well under way for our spring concert in March where we will be performing Handel’s oratorio ‘Israel in Egypt’.
