Dorchester Open Gardens

Spend the afternoon wandering around glorious private gardens in our lovely village, drinking tea or pimms and eating cake on your way round.  Children welcome to look for the gnomes and claim their prize at the end! All raising money for Dorchester Abbey Programme available from The Coop, Hair of Dorchester or the Abbey Tea [...]

By |2021-06-08T09:59:04+01:00June 8th, 2021|Comments Off on Dorchester Open Gardens

Michaelmas Ordination Service

In this time of pandemic, the ordination of Priests and Deacons this Michaelmas takes place at a number of churches. This event will be livestreamed from dorchester abbey. Links to each live stream will be posted here in the coming days. Simply click the [+] button below the info for how to connect to each [...]

By |2020-09-16T17:16:37+01:00September 16th, 2020|Comments Off on Michaelmas Ordination Service

Michaelmas Ordination Services

In this time of pandemic, the ordination of Priests and Deacons this Michaelmas takes place at a number of churches. The Abbey will livestream the services Links to each live stream will be posted here in the coming days. Simply click the [+] button below the service for how to connect. In most instances, a recording [...]

By |2020-09-16T17:13:16+01:00September 16th, 2020|Comments Off on Michaelmas Ordination Services

OSJ Unlocked 4 – 6pm and 7.45pm. Pre booking essential

Karlowicz ‘String Serenade’ Hurd ‘Love bade me welcome’ motet for choir Tchaikovsky ‘String Serenade’ Strings of Orchestra of St John’s OSJ Ashmolean Voices John Lubbock conductor This is the fourth of four socially distanced chamber concerts at Dorchester Abbey during the autumn. To allow as many as possible to attend, we are  offering two identical [...]

By |2020-09-07T15:55:37+01:00September 7th, 2020|Comments Off on OSJ Unlocked 4 – 6pm and 7.45pm. Pre booking essential

OSJ Unlocked 3 – 6pm and 7.45pm. Pre Booking essential

Glazunov ‘Intermezzo Romantico’ Faure ‘Four songs’ Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ‘African Suite: Danse nègre’ Wagner ‘Siegfried idyll’   Ilona Domnich soprano Orchestra of St John’s John Lubbock conductor This is the third of four socially distanced chamber concerts at Dorchester Abbey during the autumn. Each orchestral concert features an unknown masterpiece discovered by John Lubbock in the [...]

By |2020-09-07T15:53:08+01:00September 7th, 2020|Comments Off on OSJ Unlocked 3 – 6pm and 7.45pm. Pre Booking essential

OSJ Unlocked 2 – 6pm and 8pm. Pre Booking essential

Mozart  ‘Sonata in B Flat, KV 454’ Brahms ‘Sonata No 2 in A major op. 100’ Ravel ‘Tzigane’ Jan Schmolck violin Tim Horton piano This is the second of four socially distanced chamber concerts at Dorchester Abbey during the autumn. To allow as many as possible to attend, we are  offering two identical concerts of [...]

By |2020-09-07T15:50:48+01:00September 7th, 2020|Comments Off on OSJ Unlocked 2 – 6pm and 8pm. Pre Booking essential

OSJ Unlocked 1 – 6pm and 7.45pm. Pre Booking essential

Bloch ‘Concerto Grosso’ Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ‘Summer is Gone’ motet for choir Dvorak ‘Serenade for strings’ Strings of Orchestra of St John’s OSJ Ashmolean Voices John Lubbock conductor This is the first of four socially distanced chamber concerts at Dorchester Abbey during the autumn. Each orchestral concert features an unknown masterpiece discovered by John Lubbock in [...]

By |2020-09-07T15:47:37+01:00September 7th, 2020|Comments Off on OSJ Unlocked 1 – 6pm and 7.45pm. Pre Booking essential

Corona Strings ‘Heartstrings’ a feast of romantic works

Another Corona Strings special – a concert of romantic music for Valentines! Top of the bill is Tchaikovsky’s magnificent Serenade for Strings along with stunning works by Nordic composers Sibelius and Nielsen. Also featured in this concert is the delightful concerto for Guitar and Strings by Vincent Lindsey-Clark for which the orchestra is joined by [...]

By |2020-01-24T08:39:41+00:00January 24th, 2020|Comments Off on Corona Strings ‘Heartstrings’ a feast of romantic works
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