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St Matthew Passion

Ben Crick and a formidable line up of professional singers and instrumentalists delivers what we believe is the first ever performance in Skipton of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion.

Considered by many to be the greatest of all choral masterpieces, Bach’s St Matthew Passion combines drama with devotion like no other, and contains some of the most beautiful and exquisitely crafted music ever written.

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Mozart's Requiem

Skipton Camerata provides orchestral support in this concert given by Alan Eost and the Sheffield Oratorio Chorus. Mozart's haunting Requiem is paired with Handel's beautiful and expansive anthem The Ways of Zion, written in 1737 as a funeral anthem for Queen Caroline, consort of George II.

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Messiah

Handel's perennial masterpiece Messiah is performed by Skipton Camerata, a line up of international soloists and Leeds University's celebrated chamber choir, The Clothworkers' Consort.

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Messiah

Handel's perennial masterpiece Messiah is performed by Skipton Camerata, a line up of international soloists and Leeds University's celebrated chamber choir, The Clothworkers' Consort.

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A Merry Yorkshire Christmas

Join the Skipton Building Society Camerata's brass ensemble for an hour long festive celebration of all things Christmas. The group will be joined by a choir made up of local school pupils and an international soloist to mark this festive time with an unashamedly Yorkshire bias!

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A Merry Yorkshire Christmas

Join the Skipton Building Society Camerata's brass ensemble for an hour long festive celebration of all things Christmas. The group will be joined by a choir made up of local school pupils and an international soloist to mark this festive time with an unashamedly Yorkshire bias!

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The Battle of the Ancre

The Battle of the Ancre was filmed between September and November 1916. In between battle sequences, audiences were shown the human side of war as the British “Tommies” queued up to receive their mail and consume their food rations and fraternization between German prisoners and their British captors.

Composer Laura Rossi’s new score for chamber orchestra is in 5 movements, which accompanies the five parts of the film. The music depicts the varied emotions conveyed throughout, reflecting the more poignant moments as well as echoing brighter scenes of the high-spirited soldiers.

The Camerata will perform the score alongside a screening of the film in a concert that will also contain the pastoralism of Elgar and the humanity of Bach. 

For the Bach the Orchestra is delighted to welcome the Lithuanian pianist Justa Servenikas.

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Cafe Culture

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Cafe Culture

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Beethoven's Seventh

Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is a work that captures the zeitgeist like few others. Premiered at a concert to raise funds to help those wounded at the Battle of Hanau, Beethoven himself said he was motivated 'by nothing but pure patriotism and the joyful sacrifice of our powers for those who have sacrificed so much for us'.

Paired here with Haydn's Military Symphony, a full performance of Beethoven's Seventh follows a dramatisation of the story and events behind Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony using diaries, letters and contemporary accounts of the time illustrated with live musical extracts.