National recognition for Thame choir

THAME Chamber Choir has achieved national recognition by being chosen for the prestigious Adopt a Composer scheme, run by the Making Music organisation.

Now in its 15th year, this scheme pairs up-and-coming composers with the country’s leading amateur music groups, and Thame Chamber Choir, together with its children’s choir, TCC2, is one of just six groups, only two of them choirs, chosen from throughout the UK.

Thame Chamber Choir, founded in 1999, and directed by Duncan Aspden, has been paired with Birmingham-based Scottish composer Neil Tomas Smith, who will compose a work specially for them. It will receive its first performance at their concert in October 2016, and will be recorded by BBC Radio 3 for possible broadcast.

Thame Chamber Choir’s next concert is on Saturday, October 17, in St Mary’s Church, Thame, as part of the TAL Festival. It will feature excerpts from the diaries of Samuel Pepys, read by actor Bruce Alexander, interspersed with the music of Pepys’ contemporary Henry Purcell.

More information and tickets http://www.talfestival.org/page35.html