St George's Chapel, Windsor, November 2009
Kirbye Voices is an established choir of around 30 experienced voices drawn from the Bury St Edmunds area where we are based, and specialise in unaccompanied choral music of all periods, both sacred and secular.
We are proud to be named after the madrigal composer George Kirbye, who lived and worked in Bury. and who most notably contributed to Morley's Triumphs of Oriana in 1601. Kirbye is buried in St Mary's Church, Bury where he was Churchwarden.
Our repertoire is wide and varied, equally at home singing Byrd, Handel & Howells as Elgar, Sullivan & close harmonies in King's Singers arrangements!
We enjoy regular visits to sing Cathedral services, and recent visits have included our 'home' Cathedral in St Edmundsbury, Ely, Norwich, Canterbury, Coventry and Chelmsford.
This season (September 2009 - June 2010) we have sung in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and by contrast, Wyken Hall Vineyard/restaurant near Bury.
We present an annual fund raising Christmas Cheer! Concert in the magnificent Athenaeum, in Bury, and this year, we were delighted to have as our host BBC TV's – Ian Lavender – star of Dad's Army & Eastenders, who is currently starring at The London Palladium in Sister Act!
This season we have also been invited to sing a Lunchtime Recital in Waltham Abbey (where Tallis was Organist, on Saturday February 27), and accompany soloists from The English National and The D'Oyly Carte Opera Companies, in a Fund-raising Gala of Gilbert & Sullivan in aid of The Georgian Theatre Royal, Bury in May 2010.
We meet every Thursday at the Unitarian Meeting House, Churchgate St, Bury St Edmunds, from 7.45 – 9.45, and we welcome new members with sight reading and choral experience who can also commit on a regular basis, to join us - particularly tenors & basses!
Over the years, we have raised many thousands of pounds for church and other charitable funds, and are always pleased to hear from those who would welcome a concert in aid of their particular fund.
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Norwich Cathedral Weekend, July 2008