Making Music:
www.makingmusic.org.uk/MM/home.aspx Making Music, The National Federation of Music Societies, represents and supports amateur and semi-professional music groups of all genres throughout the United Kingdom. |
Sound and Music:
www.soundandmusic.org Sound and Music is the UK's landmark organisation for new music and sound, bringing a vital art-form to more people. |
The PRS for Music Foundation:
www.prsformusicfoundation.com The PRS for Music Foundation is the UK's leading charitable funder of new music. |
Aeolian Singers:
www.aeoliansingers.org.uk Aeolian Singers first joined with Hardynge Choir to sing Beethoven's Mass in C in St Albans Cathedral on 18 October 2014, and recently joined the St Albans St Cecilia Society to perform Haydn's Creation in St Albans Cathedral. Aeolian Singers is Hemel Hempstead's largest mixed voice chorus. Stephen Jones is the Aeolian Singers' Musical Director. |
Radlett Choir:
www.radlettchoir.org.uk Radlett Choir (formerly known as Radlett Choral Society) was formed in 1954 and has developed into a choir of some 70 members, singing a wide range of music from all centuries and styles. Alexander Flood is the musical director of Radlett Choir. See: https://www.facebook.com/people/Radlett-Choir/100067323152621/?ref=embed_page |
St Albans Chamber Choir:
www.stalbanschamberchoir.org.uk St Albans Chamber Choir made its debut 50 years ago, and is delighting audiences with music from the last six centuries, and winning awards for its innovative programming. John Gibbons has been the St Albans Chamber Choir's Musical Director since 2007. |
St Albans Symphony Orchestra:
www.saso.org.uk St Albans Symphony Orchestra comprises professional and amateur musicians of a high standard from throughout Hertfordshire and beyond. The orchestra is developing into one of the UK's leading non-professional ensembles. Bill Carslake is Conductor and Artistic Director. |
Richard Hills:
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=richard+hills+organist Richard Hills was the Jazz Organist in our 2012 summer concert, Anything Goes, and has performed in several carol concerts. He gave a spell binding performance of Poulenc's Concerto for organ, timpani and strings in our 2023 Spring Concert. To see some great YouTube videos of his playing go to the link above. |
Sasha Johnson Manning:
www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/81f29055-760b-496a-a872-c71ecf61b0df Sasha Johnson Manning, our Honorary President, is well known as the composer of The Manchester Carols, a festive suite of new carols with words by Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. We sang that work in our 2010 Carol Concert: one of the first performances outside Manchester. She composed The Hardynge Seasons specially for the Hardynge Choir, and in 2017 Ring Out, Wild Bells. She recently composed Three Songs, for us based on three poems chosen by choir members: we first performed this delightful work in September 2023 at the Our Fair Ladies concert in St John's Church, Markyate. See: www.facebook.com/people/Sasha-Johnson-Manning/719723011 |
Electric Umbrella:
www.electricumbrella.co.uk Electric Umbrella produce amazing live music experiences with learning disabled people. The Hardynge Choir supported Electric Umbrella with the Magnificat concert in December 2022. |
Classical Events :
https://www.classicalevents.co.uk Promote your classical music concerts for free with Classical Events. |
Concert-Diary.com:
www.concert-diary.com The interactive Concert Guide specialising in listings for Opera, Ballet and Classical Music Concerts. |
Creative Hertfordshire:
www.creativehertfordshire.com/ The online network for the arts & creative community in Hertfordshire. |
gerontius:
https://www.gerontius.net The dream site for choirs and lovers of choral music. |
Hertfordshire Directory:
https://directory.hertfordshire.gov.uk/Services/9578 Hardynge Choir is listed on Hertfordshire Directory, hosted on the Hertfordshire County Council website. |
Phillip Tolley's Concert Finder :
www.concertfinder.co.uk An online diary of choral music concerts. |
Harpenden Guide:
https://www.harpendenguide.co.uk/add-event The Harpenden Guide Community App provides easily accessible local information and updates. Entries are only viewed on the App. The App is available for iPad/iPhone from the App Store and for Android Tablets/Smart Phones form Google Play. Harpenden Guide Events are added via their website. |
English Chamber Choir:
www.englishchamberchoir.co.uk/ English Chamber Choir, one of London's leading and busiest vocal ensembles, has been at the forefront of musical life in the capital for the past 50 years we've. For almost all of that time we were led by our music director Guy Protheroe. Guy has recently stepped back to become Conductor Emeritus, and we are now led by our new artistic director, Rufus Frowde. |
Hospice of St. Francis:
www.stfrancis.org.uk The Hospice of St Francis is a charity which helps 2,000 local people and their families, in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, to live their precious lives well through improving symptoms, achieving personal goals and helping them to feel safe. In our 2023 Christmas Concert, "Christmas in Blue", Hardynge Choir is supporting the Hospice of St. Francis in memory of Ian Skelton and Jenny Elston. |