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A friendly & dynamic classical music choir based in London under the direction of Jack Apperley. Come join us or come listen! www.goldsmithschoralunion.org

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Honoured to learn from brilliant Simon Halsey and Norbert Meyn in today’s masterclass — insight and inspiration in every note & text

As we prepare for Ein Deutsches Requiem, join us on 19 March, 7:30pm at Cadogan Hall. 🎶

#ChoirLife #SimonHalsey #NorbertMeyn #Brahms #CadoganHall #LiveClassical

24.02.2026 22:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A date for your diary! We will be performing Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem. It’s not too late to join our choir if you want to sing on 19 March 2026. German diction workshop included! Click link on bio for details #Choir #Londonevents #Classicalmusic #Brahms #Mendelssohn

12.01.2026 16:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Prioritise joy in 2026. Come join us ! Click on our bio for more info !

06.01.2026 22:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We enjoyed ourselves at our Christmas Concert. Wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas & Best Wishes for 2026

22.12.2025 01:56 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Come experience the magic of Christmas at our beautifully put together programme of Carols, Traditional & Modern Music at our Christmas concert. Click the link for tickets #christmas #carols #concert tinyurl.com/GCUChristmas25

16.12.2025 23:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s beginning to feel alot like Christmas! Our concert is on 19th December at 7:30pm at Holy Trinity Church in London Sloans Square. Tickets👉 tinyurl.com/GCUChristmas25

07.12.2025 06:22 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Join us this Friday 14 November @ 7:30pm for our autumn concert with a brass orchestra. For tickets and more information click the link below 👇 #choralmusic #classical #concert #london #choir

13.11.2025 17:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This Friday ! #concert #choir #brass #poulenc #rutter #macmillan

10.11.2025 22:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Listen to our MD Jack Apperley discuss the programme for our concert on 14 Nov 25 in London. Guaranteed to blow the cobwebs away! Look under Events in the link below for tickets #choir #londonconcert #classicalmusic www.goldsmithschoralunion.org

01.11.2025 06:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fanfares and Flourishes - Sinfonia Smith Square

Beat the winter blues - join us on Fri 14 Nov for our next concert which promises to lift your spirits #classical #music #concert #london #choir www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/gcu-fa...

27.10.2025 13:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 2
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Beat the winter blues with our rousing autumn concert “Fanfares & Flourishes” For details and also on how to join our dynamic fun choir click the link below 👇

www.goldsmithschoralunion.org

22.10.2025 09:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Drinks after rehearsal gearing up for our Autumn concert accompanied by a Brass Orchestra. A warm welcome also to our tenor scholar ! #Poulenc #Walton #Choir #London #classical music

25.09.2025 08:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We're delighted to be once again joining The Bach Choir, this time for the opening of their 150th anniversary season, to perform Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony at St Paul's Cathedral on Thursday 9 October.

Tickets available now: www.tickettailor.com/events/theba...

10.07.2025 09:30 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We a great time at our “Summer Sings” choral workshops over July ( Bach’s mass in B minor & Brahms’ German Requiem) Enjoying a break before starting our autumn term of music. Why not join us? 👉 www.goldsmithschoralunion.org

10.07.2025 23:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Are you a tenor? Apply to be one of our tenor scholars now ! See details 👉 tinyurl.com/Tenor-Schola...

29.06.2025 15:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bach: Mass in B minor - choral workshop for all Singers of all standards welcome. Brahms Requiem is featured in a similar workshop on 2nd July 2025

Come sing with us this Wednesday 630pm. Bach Mass B minor choral workshop for all Scores available Tickets @ door or here 👉https://tinyurl.com/Summersings25-1

23.06.2025 07:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fri 20/6 730pm we showcase the beauty of the human voice through acapella performances of Rheinberger mass in E flat and three Stanford motets. The programme also includes Dove’s thrilling Passing of the Year, the boistrous Songs of the Fleet and an enchanting nocterne 👉 tinyurl.com/GCU-Tickets-...

16.06.2025 17:44 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 7
Roxanna Panufnik – Alma’s Songs Without Words 
Fulham Symphony Orchestra 
Marc Dooley conductor
Tom Evans leader
21 June 2025 7.30pm, Smith Square Hall

Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 7 Roxanna Panufnik – Alma’s Songs Without Words Fulham Symphony Orchestra Marc Dooley conductor Tom Evans leader 21 June 2025 7.30pm, Smith Square Hall

Roxanna Panufnik – Alma’s Songs Without Words (London Premiere)
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 7
Fulham Symphony Orchestra 
Marc Dooley conductor
Tom Evans leader
21 June 2025, 7.30pm 
Smith Square Hall London SW1P 3HF
Tickets £14, concessions £12, under-16s £9. Booking fees apply.
Book online: sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk
Booking helpline: 02072221061
Gustav Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, sometimes called the Song of the Night, sweeps listeners through an emotional journey from dusk to dawn. The arresting introduction is followed by eerie ‘night music’ movements and a haunting waltz. Scored for a huge orchestra including mandolin, guitar and cowbells, the symphony is full of contrasts, combining romantic serenades, nocturnal marches and ironic humour. The life-affirming finale is crowned with boisterous timpani and blazing brass.

Alma’s Songs Without Words by Roxanna Panufnik reimagines three songs by Alma Mahler, with different instruments or sections of the orchestra taking on the role of the human voice. Alma wrote the songs before her tempestuous and ultimately tragic marriage to Gustav Mahler, who initially made clear his view that there was room for only one composer in their relationship. Panufnik describes the songs as: “extraordinary in their intensity, passion and almost feverish swings in mood and tempo”.
Illustration by Caroline Whitehead

Roxanna Panufnik – Alma’s Songs Without Words (London Premiere) Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 7 Fulham Symphony Orchestra Marc Dooley conductor Tom Evans leader 21 June 2025, 7.30pm Smith Square Hall London SW1P 3HF Tickets £14, concessions £12, under-16s £9. Booking fees apply. Book online: sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk Booking helpline: 02072221061 Gustav Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, sometimes called the Song of the Night, sweeps listeners through an emotional journey from dusk to dawn. The arresting introduction is followed by eerie ‘night music’ movements and a haunting waltz. Scored for a huge orchestra including mandolin, guitar and cowbells, the symphony is full of contrasts, combining romantic serenades, nocturnal marches and ironic humour. The life-affirming finale is crowned with boisterous timpani and blazing brass. Alma’s Songs Without Words by Roxanna Panufnik reimagines three songs by Alma Mahler, with different instruments or sections of the orchestra taking on the role of the human voice. Alma wrote the songs before her tempestuous and ultimately tragic marriage to Gustav Mahler, who initially made clear his view that there was room for only one composer in their relationship. Panufnik describes the songs as: “extraordinary in their intensity, passion and almost feverish swings in mood and tempo”. Illustration by Caroline Whitehead

We’re performing Mahler 7 and Roxanna Panufnik's "Alma’s Songs Without Words" at Smith Square Hall on 21 June. Book now at: fso.org.uk/summer-2025/

27.05.2025 14:15 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Fri 20/6 730pm we showcase the beauty of the human voice through acapella performances of Rheinberger mass in E flat and three Stanford motets. The programme also includes Dove’s thrilling Passing of the Year, the boistrous Songs of the Fleet and an enchanting nocterne 👉 tinyurl.com/GCU-Tickets-...

16.06.2025 17:44 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Next week we’ll be performing at this stunning Arts and Crafts church just off Sloane Square: Stanford, Rheinberger, Hogan and Dove’s The Passing of the Year. Friday 20 June, 7.30pm. Tickets £28 from or on the door or 👉 tinyurl.com/GCU-Tickets-... #london #concert #choral

12.06.2025 14:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A nice social in the pub after rehearsal last Wednesday. Getting ready for our summer concert - check out our website for details

12.04.2025 18:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Why not consider this amazing opportunity. Apply to be one of our tenor scholars www.goldsmithschoralunion.org/tenor-choral...

04.04.2025 15:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It was a wonderful privilege to sing such beautiful music and grateful for it to be so well received @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social

29.03.2025 06:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We are challenging ourselves under the capable leadership of our MD, Jack Apperley. This spring we will be performing English choral masterpieces by HOWELLS & DYSON at our upcoming “Hymns of Paradise” concert on Fri 28 March 2025 7:30pm. For tickets 👉 tinyurl.com/GCUTickets

12.03.2025 17:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Excited! BBC Music Magazine’s 2022 Rising Star Hilary Cronin will sing with us at our next concert Hymns of Paradise on 28 Mar 25
#hilarycronin #goldsmithschoralunion #jackapperley #smithsquarehall #choral #whatsoninlondon #choir #herberthowells #singing #affinitychamberorchestra #vaughanwilliams

14.02.2025 09:24 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We are recruiting new members. Check out our link on the biog 👆

29.01.2025 21:20 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Meet 2 our longest standing & loyal members ♥️ #choir #classicalmusic

24.01.2025 11:03 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Can’t wait to see you all back on Wednesday as we begin rehearsals for our next concert. Come check us out if you’re looking to join a choir in London #classicalmusic #london #choir #choralmusic

06.01.2025 22:12 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Looks like its going to be a full house for our Christmas Concert tonight at the beautiful Holy Trinity Church, Sloans Square, London #choir #christmas #music #classicalmusic #london #londonchoir #christmascarols

13.12.2024 19:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Enjoying a well deserved drink after our penultimate Christmas Concert rehearsal tonight Come listen .. Tickets are selling out 👉 n9.cl/evca96. #london #whatsoninlondon #choir #classicalmusic #christmascarols #carols #christmas

11.12.2024 22:16 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0