Collaborations
SPS has engaged in collaborations with other chamber choirs and orchestras other than St Peter's Chamber Orchestra, though it, now led by Mary Huby, is featured several times each season. The Singers regularly invite the National Festival Orchestra, led by Sally Robinson to join them for concerts and performances of The Dream of Gerontius, Dvořák's Stabat Mater and Blest Pair of Sirens, John Milton's Ode At a Solemn Musick by Parry.
Choral collaborations have included concerts with the Chapter House Choir of York conducted by Stephen Williams in 2006 in honour of its 40th anniversary, and collaborations with the Elgar Chorale of Worcester under its conductor Donald Hunt. St Peter's Singers were invited to participate in the Elgar 150th Birthday Concert in June 2007 in Worcester Cathedral. The Singers and the Elgar Chorale collaborated in an Elgar Concert The Music Makers at Worcester Cathedral on the 75th anniversary of the composer's death in February, 1934. A further visit to Worcester Cathedral on 8 May 2010 when Donald Hunt conducted Elgar's Dream of Gerontius and his own edition of Elgar's In Proud Thanksgiving as part of the Bromsgrove Festival in which St Peter's Singers participated with the Elgar Chorale and Chamber Choir of Bromsgrove School.
In October 2008, the Singers presented a concert in York Minster in celebration of the 60th birthday of their conductor, Simon Lindley with music by Donald Hunt, Francis Jackson, Philip Moore and Lindley.
The Singers sustain close relationships other cultural groups including Leeds Philharmonic Society, Leeds Festival Chorus, Doncaster Choral Society, Sheffield Bach Choir - upcoming collaborations with the Sheffield Bach Choir include two concerts in the 2013-2014 season - and Ecclesia, a chamber choir established in 2008 at St Aidan's Church, Leeds, and now based at the fine Georgian Church of Holy Trinity Boar Lane.
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