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Concert Review: After the considerable successes of Verdi's Requiem and Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man, how were Isle of Wight Cantata Choir going to top that?Their Concert at All Saints' Church, Ryde on Saturday 23rd March was a real feast of choral classics. Lots to...

Concert Review: Isle of Wight Cantata Choir, conductor Rachel Tweddle Saturday, 24th November 2018 at the Medina Theatre Isle of Wight Cantata Choir gave a solemn and thought-provoking concert at the Medina Theatre on Saturday, conducted by Rachel Tweddle. Taking...

Music teacher, cellist and singer, Rosemary Joy Woodhouse, has died, aged 91, on 5th May 2018.Born in Harrow, Middlesex on July 11, 1926 she attended the Royal College of Music studying singing, piano and cello, gaining an ARCM in singing performance and a GRSM...

Concert Review: AN EXCITING AND SPIRITED PERFORMANCE OF VERDI'S REQUIEM Medina Theatre saw some splendid music-making on Saturday 14th April when the Isle of WightCantata Choir performed Verdi's Requiem with a 50 strong orchestra and 4 young professional soloists...

Concert Review: Cantata Choir - Chilcott “Little Jazz Mass” & Todd “Mass in Blue”Garfield Road Methodist Church, 7th October 2017 The first half of the concert featured Bob Chilcott"s “Little Jazz Mass” The Southern jazz influences can be heard throughout with...

On Sunday 7th May members of the choir travelled up to the Royal Albert Hall to join 1,500 other singers to perform the Mozart Requiem to a packed out concert hall. The trip was part of the 60th year celebrations of the choir. We all thoroughly enjoyed the day and are...

Concert Review: Cantata Choir’s Return to Dvorák It’s been 32 years since the Isle of Wight Cantata Choir performed Dvorák’s Stabat Mater, when the group was still in its early years. Indeed, some of its singers still remember the first time they approached this...

Concert Review: Post Concert Reactions: There has been a great reaction to our concert last Saturday, a performance of  Faure's Requiem and Carr's Requiem for an Angel. Here are some of the comments from Twitter and Facebook Moving and uplifting performance...

Event Review: One of the UK’s leading contemporary composers, Will Todd, visited the Island last Saturday, 8th October, to hold a workshop for choral singers at St Catherine’s Church, Ventnor. The event, which had been organised by the Isle of Wight Cantata Choir, was...

Concert Review: A GERMAN REQUIEM IN NEWPORT It is, unbelievably, twenty years since the bitter Britpop battle between Blur and Oasis. But 150 years ago, a similar head-to-head was taking place in Vienna: Brahms -v- Wagner...and Brahms's German Requiem took it to a new...

Concert Review: Magnificent Magnificat and Crowd Pleasing Choruses When John Rutter composed his Magnificat in 1990, he conceived the work as “a bright Latin-flavoured fiesta”.  And the Cantata Choir injected sunshine and sparkle into the piece in its packed...

Press Release: Choir's showcase for young singers The Isle of Wight Cantata Choir is giving its next concert next Saturday, March 14, at 7.30 pm in Medina Theatre. The works to be performed are Mozart’s Coronation Mass, three motets by C. V. Stanford and Haydn’s Te...

Press Release: Favourites and premieres from Cantata The Cantata Choir will be giving a Concert of Christmas Music in the Medina Theatre, Newport, at 2pm on Sunday, December 8. The choir will be accompanied by a brass quintet and the afternoon is intended to be a...

Concert Review: Island first for sacred sounds The IW Cantata Choir gave a memorable concert at Medina Theatre, on October 19, featuring the first performance on the Island of Verdi’s Four Sacred Songs (Quattro Pezzi Sacri), a complex and difficult piece to sing,...

Concert Review: When the work you are performing is as well-known as Handel’s Messiah it is imperative to communicate the familiar message of Christ’s birth through to the hope of eternal life as though telling it for the first time. This involves singing with...

Press Release: Composer to attend concert Composer Howard Blake will be at Medina Theatre next Saturday, March 17, to hear his work, The Benedictus, performed by the IW Symphony Orchestra and the IW Cantata Choir. Blake is famous as a pianist, conductor and composer —...

Press Release: New setting for choir's Surprise The IW Cantata Choir’s March offering is appropriately called A Spring Surprise, the title referring both to the programme’s content and to the venue. Instead of its normal home of the Medina Theatre, the choir will...