Concerts & Events

In our Spring 2025 concert, we were joined by our French partner choir La Villanelle de Sceaux to mark our 55th anniversary.

Since 1985, we have developed close links with La Villanelle de Sceaux, a choir from Sceaux near Paris (Leamington’s twin town). In conjunction with Leamington International Twinning Society (LITS), we planned a joint concert to celebrate our 55 years of song.

Seventy singers in double chorus performed an eclectic and exciting programme. It was a three-in-one format – first Warwickshire Singers, then La Villanelle, with both choirs then joining forces to sing the main work, a Latin mass by Théodore Dubois, “Messe brève à 3 voix”.

Other pieces included:

Panis Angelicus Reimagined by Rebecca Dale (an emerging talent from London, who was the first female composer to sign to Universal Music's Decca Classics label);

Cantate Domino by Karl Jenkins (possibly best known for “The Armed Man”);

Three pieces by V C Johnson (a minister for Shiloh Baptist Church in Texas, and a prolific composer/arranger with 350 choral works to his name);

Alleluia by Sally K Albrecht (a popular American choral composer who has held clinics, conventions and workshops in 40 states, Canada, Singapore and Australia);

Clair Flambeau du Monde by Jean-Philippe Rameau (this is an extract from the French Baroque opera-ballet, “Les Indes Galantes”).

To balance these lesser-known, mostly modern pieces, we sang some famous classics such as “Zadok the Priest” and the “Hallelujah Chorus” by Handel.