SOLD OUT - THIS EVENT IS NOW - SOLD OUT - FOR ANY TICKET ENQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT THE LONDON FILM MUSIC ORCHESTRA *Performance Two* Event description Experience cinema's most iconic music performed by The London Film Music Orchestra illuminated! General Info Dorchester Abbey Thursday 12th October 2023 Entry from: 19:45 Start time: 20:30 End [...]
Instruments of Time and Truth Edward Higginbottom director Bojan Čičić violin Oxford’s world-class early music ensemble, Instruments of Time and Truth, present a programme of music from Paris’s eighteenth-century Concert Spirituel. Created in 1725 to provide public musical performances on days when the opera was shut (principally around major religious festivals), the concert spirituel [...]
Enjoy a social evening eating and drinking in houses across the village. Start the evening with canapes and fizz in the beautiful Manor House garden, where you receive your instructions for the evening! Eat main course in one house, pudding at another and then gather in the Abbey for coffee. £28pp incl wine with each [...]
Spend a lovely afternoon wandering around 10 of Dorchester's finest private gardens of all shapes and sizes! Refreshments, plant sale and gnome hunt. Maps available from Dorchester Coop or the Abbey tea room. £5 for an individual, £10 for a family - max 2 adults, incl gnome hunt! All in aid of Dorchester Abbey
It's hard to imagine a link between John Rutter and George Shearing. Rutter is the doyen of British choral composers, whose many anthems and carols invariably delight and uplift us. Shearing was a renowned jazz pianist who as a performer, arranger and composer of such numbers as Lullaby of Birdland, achieved great popularity with his Quintet in the States and beyond after [...]
The Festival will be held in Oxfordshire, with events held in the glorious surroundings of Dorchester Abbey as well as at the Silk Hall at Radley College and the historic All Saints’ Church at Sutton Courtenay. The full programme, with details of venues, works and artists, is given below. The English Music Festival | [...]
Part of Chiltern Arts Week Long Festival - ‘Love, Loss and the Passage of Time’ The Choir of King’s College, London: Rachmaninov All Night Vigil (Vespers) with Joseph Fort conductor comes to Dorchester Abbey. The Choir of King’s College, London performs Rachmaninov’s breathtaking All Night Vigil alongside works by Tavener and the world premiere of a [...]
Following the great success of this concert last year, another inclusive evening of music-making with Derek Paravicini and friends featuring young musicians across the spectrum of neurodiversity. Derek Paravicini has been blind from birth and has autism and severe learning difficulties, yet he can play almost any piece by ear in any key and style and [...]
Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes Start your Lent journey with an act of repentance and commitment
The Creative Arts Partnership Presents BIG BAND of St Helens & St Katherine's School performing to local primary schools at Dorchester Abbey. This unique performance will include a workshop aspect for the invited children of participating schools to enable them to learn about and perhaps experience playing the Big Band instruments! This event is open [...]
