Saturday 17th December 2022 2.00-3.00 pm: Bowes Museum
The Andreas Ensemble at the Bowes Museum Christmas Market
Saturday 10th December 2022 7.00 pm: St. Cuthbert's Church, Crook
Carols for all to sing
Come and enjoy singing all your well-known favourite carols with the Andreas Ensemble in this beautiful church
Saturday 18th December 2021 1.30 pm: Bowes Museum
The Andreas Ensemble at the Bowes Museum Christmas Market
Friday 10th December 2021 7.00 pm: St. Cuthbert's Church, Crook
Sing Carols at Christmas
Come and enjoy singing all your well-known favourite carols with the Andreas Ensemble
Saturday 7th December 2019 11am-3pm: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
The Andreas Ensemble sings Christmas music for visitors and museum staff
Friday 6th December 2019 7.30 pm: St. Mary's RC Church. Bishop Auckland
Carol Singing for everyone
Come and sing Carols for Marie Curie Care.
Fill this lovely church with the sound of your voices!
All your favourite carols for everybody to sing, plus short choir pieces sung by the Andreas Ensemble
Tuesday, 15th October 2019 2-3pm: The Laing Art gallery, Newcastle
The Andreas Ensemble was invited to sing at the Amy Barker memorial event
Amy was a former member of the Andreas Ensemble, who tragically died at the early age of only 42.
Saturday, 15th December 2018 2-3pm
The Andreas Ensemble at the Bowes Museum Christmas Market
Seasonal carols and polyphonic motets
Friday 8th December 2018 7.00pm
Sing for Marie Curie: all your favourite carols for everyone to sing:
St. Cuthbert's Etherley nr. Bishop Auckland
Saturday, 1st December 2018 11am & 1.30pm
Some members of the Andreas Ensemble at the Laing Art gallery Newcastle
Seasonal carols and polyphonic motets
Saturday, 16th December 2017 2-3pm
The Andreas Ensemble at the Bowes Museum Christmas Market
Seasonal carols and polyphonic motets
Sunday 1st December 2017 2.00 pm: St. Mary's RC Church Bishop Auckland
Carol Singing for everyone:
Friday 24th November 2017 7.30 pm: Bishop Auckland Methodist Church
Bach as Advent begins
All of the Orgelbüchlein Preluds for Advent, Christmas and the New Year
With the chorales and polyphonic motets based on them
Sunday 17th December 2016 2.00 pm: Bowes Museum
The Andreas Ensemble at the Bowes Museum Christmas Market
Friday 9th December 2016 7.30 pm: St. Andrew's
Carol Singing for everyone
Come and sing Carols for Marie Curie Care.
Fill St. Andrew's with the sound of your voices!
All your favourite carols for everybody to sing, plus short choir pieces sung by the Andreas Ensemble
Friday 25th November 2016 7.30 pm: St. Andrew's
Bach for Choir & Organ ...as Advent begins
All of the Orgelbüchlein Preludes for Advent, Christmas and the New Year
with the chorales and short polyphonic motets based on them, sung by
The Andreas Ensemble, with Brian Varley (organ)
Sunday 24th July 2016 4 pm: Auckland Castle Chapel
The Andreas Ensemble sings Choral Evensong in the Chapel of Auckland Castle
Saturday 23rd April 2016 2.30-4.30 pm: St. John's Neville's Cross
Come and Sing Gounod
An opportunity for choral singers to join us to perform Gounod's Messe Brève and other music
Sunday 24th April 2016 2.30-4.30 pm: St. Mary's's Staindrop
Come and Sing Gounod
An opportunity for choral singers to join us to perform Gounod's Messe Brève and other music
Saturday 19th December 2015 7.30 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at the Bowes Museum Christmas Market
Music for a Christmas Fayre, sung from the Gallery
Friday 11th December 2015 7.30 pm
"Carol Singing for everyone" - all your favourites, with the Andreas Ensemble, St. Andrew's, South Church, Bishop Auckland, 7.30 pm, in aid of Marie Curie Care
Sunday 15th November 2015 3 pm
The Andreas Ensemble sings Fauré Requiem in St. Andrew's, South Church, Bishop Auckland, with Brancepeth Choir
Sunday 8th November 2015 7 pm
The Andreas Ensemble sings Fauré Requiem in St. Brandon, Brancepeth, with Brancepeth Village Choir
Sunday 23rd August 2015 4 pm
The Andreas Ensemble sings Choral Evensong in the Chapel of Auckland Castle
Saturday 20th December 2014 2-3 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at the Bowes Museum Christmas Market
Music for a Christmas Fayre, sung from the Gallery, followed by choir party
Saturday 6th December 2014 7.30 pm
The Andreas Ensemble in St. Andrew's
Carols for everybody in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care
Sunday 26th October 2014 4 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at Auckland Castle
Full Choral Evensong sung by the Andreas Ensemble
Saturday 31st May 2014 2 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at sings for a wedding at Minsteracres Monastery
Sunday 22nd December 2013 2-3 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at the Bowes Museum Christmas Market
Music for a Christmas Fayre, sung from the Gallery
Sunday 15th December 2013 4 pm
Service of Nine Lessons and Carols in St. Andrew's
A traditional service of Nine Lessons, with carols for all to sing.
Friday 6th December 2013 7.30 pm
The Andreas Ensemble with Prince Bishops Brass at St. Andrew's
Bishop Auckland Music Society Christmas Concert
Choir, Organ and Brass fill St. Andrew's in a festival of music for Christmas
Download the programme for this concert Take a look at the Prince Bishops Brass website See the BAMS website for ticketing and contact details: Tickets �12.50 include wine/soft drinks and mince pies in the intervalSunday 22nd September 2013 4 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at Auckland Castle
Full Choral Evensong sung by the Andreas Ensemble
Service Music
Introit: Hymnus Eucharisticus (Rogers).
Responses: William Smith of Durham
Psalms: 108 & 129 to chants by Walmisley and Flintoft
Magnificat & Nunc dimittis: Gibbons Short Service
Lord's Prayer: Bernard Rose
Concluding Anthem: Tebe poëm (Church Slavonic), Bortniansky
Hymns:
Soldiers of Christ arise! Arr. BV verses 3 & 6
The day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended
Saturday 22nd December 2012 3 pm and 7 pm (two performances)
Christmas with the Soundpower Orchestra and the Andreas Ensemble
A full orchestra and singers fill Gibside Chapel with historic and contemporary classics in two memorable candlelit concerts
See the Gibside website for ticketing details and directions. �15 including mulled wine and mince pies, booking essential. Soundpower Orchestra websiteSunday 16th December 2012 3 pm
Service of Nine Lessons and Carols in St. Andrew's
A traditional service of Nine Lessons, with carols for all to sing.
Saturday 15th December 2012 2-3 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at the Bowes Museum Christmas Market
Music for a Christmas Fayre, sung from the Gallery
Friday 7th December 2012 7.30 pm
The Andreas Ensemble with the Cobweb Baroque Strings at St. Andrew's
Bishop Auckland Music Society Christmas Concert
A programme of Baroque works for choir and chamber orchestra, together with
carols and seasonal motets by the choir.
Including:
Bach: Cantata No.140 Wachet auf
Handel: Let thy Hand be strengthened
Buxtehude: In dulci jubilo
Bach: Ehre sei dir Gott gesungen (Christmas Oratorio Part 5)
plus(orchestra):
Corelli: Christmas Concerto
Bach: Concerto for Violin and Oboe
Sunday 25th March 2012 at 6.00 pm
The Andreas Ensemble sings Choral Evensong at St. Cuthbert.s Church, Durham
Responses: Smith of Durham (5 parts)
Anthems: Exsultate Deo (Palestrina), Sicut Cervus (Palestrina)
Service: Stanford in Bb
Saturday 11th February 2012, 2 - 5 pm
Choral Training Workshop held on 11th February, 2012, 2 - 5 pm in St. Andrew's, South Church, Bishop Auckland, lead by Paul Hale (Southwell Minster).
This open-to-all workshop event was a great succcess and, not unexpectedly, a most enjoyable afternoon, given Paul's great skills as a choir trainer and communicator.
Organists/Choir Leaders brought their choirs along as a groups, joining individual singers who enrolled on their own initiative.
The Andreas Ensemble served as a core of singers and sang some illustrations, but the workshop was for everybody to enjoy singing together under Paul's expert direction.
Paul's own words give the flavour:
"Come and Sing the Psalms with Paul Hale. Refresh your Anglican chant, take a peek at the world of plainchant, and bring new life to sublime settings of psalm texts by Howells and Palestrina. Paul is passionate about the psalms and aims to infuse the afternoon's singers with a similar delight for their power and their beauty".
Download a Poster with full details of this event and how to enrol
Some 120 choral singers and directors from all over the region enrolled for this workshop.
Sunday 18th December 2011 at 2.00 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at The Bowes Museum Christmas Market
Sunday 11th December 2011 at 3.00 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at St. Andrew's, South Church, Bishop Auckland
Service of Nine Lessons & Carols
Friday 2nd December 2011 7.30 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at St. Andrew's, South Church, Bishop Auckland
A Concert to celebrate the Season of Christmas
*Charpentier: Messe de minuit. A jolly and rustic setting based on French carols with Christmas Eve in mind
*A set of three Northumbrian folksongs, arr. Jack Wolstenholme
*Special Advent and Christmas choral music in glorious polyphony
*Music for 2 flutes and continuo
Sunday 19th December 2010 at 3.00 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at St. Andrew's Bishop Auckland
Service of Nine Lessons and Carols
Saturday 11th December 2010 7.0 pm
The Andreas Ensemble in the Chapel of Auckland Castle:
Bishop of Jarrow's Choral Evensong with Carols for the Friends of Auckland Castle with the Andreas Ensemble
Open to members of the public by Invitation
Thursday 9th December 2010 7.30 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at Auckland Castle
Bishop Auckland Music Society Christmas Concert
*Christmas carols for all to sing
*Special Advent and Christmas choral music in glorious polyphony
*Music for flutes and harpsichord
Sunday 18th July 2010 3.00 pm
The Andreas Ensemble sings Evensong in St. Anne's, Bishop Auckland for the visitation of the Bishop of Jarrow
Saturday 15th May 2010 7.30 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at Grange Road Baptist Church, Darlington
Palm Sunday 28th March 2010 3 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at St. Andrew's Bishop Auckland
The Crucifixion by Sir John Stainer (1840-1901) - 'A meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy Redeemer'
A pageant in beautiful English choral music including hymns for all to sing with the choir
Sunday 20th December 2009 2 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at the Bowes Museum Christmas Market
Sunday 13th December 2009 at 3.00 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at St. Andrew's Bishop Auckland
Service of Nine Lessons and Carols
Sunday 29th November 2009 at 3.00 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at St. Anne's Bishop Auckland
'Hymns and Anthems for the first Sunday in Advent'
Saturday 17th October 2009 at 7.30 pm
The Andreas Ensemble at Sunderland Minster
The October programmes centred on Liszt's lovely Missa Choralis and included:
Stainer: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in Bb
Tomkins: Holy, Holy, Holy and Above the Stars
Russian Liturgical Music by Bortniansky and Rachmaninov
together with musical interludes for organ and flute/oboe and piano plus a couple of festive hymns for everyone to join in singing.
Saturday 3rd October 2009
The Andreas Ensemble at St. Edmund's Sedgefield
Saturday, 25th April 2009
The Andreas Ensemble at St. Ives Leadgate
Sunday 21st December 2008
The Andreas Ensemble at the Bowes Museum Christmas Market
Sunday 14th December 2008
Nine Lessons and Carols with the Andreas Ensemble St. Andrew's, South Church, Bishop Auckland
Saturday, 15th November 2008
The Andreas Ensemble at the Church of the Ascension, Middlesbrough