ST.JAMES’ CHURCH, STONEHAVEN What a wonderful experience this was for the seventeen members who made up the “small but beautifully formed “Stonehaven Chorus” last Sunday and for the few others members who attended the concert but were unable to take part. Several months ago we were asked by David Fleming of St.James’ Church if we […]

STONEHAVEN TOWN HALL Over many years, the Stonehaven Chorus have built a reputation for fine performances of challenging contemporary music often by composers with a Nordic background. Conductor Ralph Jamieson continued that tradition on Sunday with a remarkably successful performance of A Solstice of Light by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Strictly speaking, Maxwell Davies is […]

STONEHAVEN TOWN HALL Stonehaven Town Hall was packed on Saturday when the Stonehaven Chorus presented one of their superbly imaginative and ever popular Scottish programmes. The conducting honours were shared between Dr John Hearne and Ralph Jamieson, a past conductor of the choir, while Drew Tulloch was as ever on hand to provide colourful keyboard […]

St. JAMES’S CHURCH, STONEHAVEN Given that the previous concert by the Stonehaven Chorus in December last year was for Homecoming Scotland rather than their traditional Christmas Fare there were no popular carols for the audience to join in singing. Their latest concert in St. James’s Church on Sunday corrected that omission with the opportunity for […]

STONEHAVEN TOWN HALL An early Scots song “Nou let us sing” was a thoroughly apt choice of opening number to kick-start the special Homecoming Concert given by the Stonehaven Chorus on Friday. It introduced the various sections of the choir while suggesting which drinks, and in what quantity, would provide the ideal booster for each […]

When The Stonehaven Chorus departed from Aberdeen on Wednesday 21st October, they could hardly have imagined the programme of exciting events the next four days had in store. The thirty-five singers (two-thirds of the full choir), along with their conductor and a few partners set off on their long-awaited maiden Tour into Europe. The Chorus, […]

St James’s Church, STONEHAVEN At this year’s Spring Concert, the Stonehaven Chorus offered one of the great time-honoured classics of church music, Bach’s Magnificat in D. This they set alongside the world premiere of the new English version of a Requiem by Fredrik Sixten, one of Sweden’s most celebrated composers of contemporary church music. Dr […]

Dunnottar Church, STONEHAVEN Thanks to the tireless adventurous spirit of their musical director Dr John Hearne, the Stonehaven Chorus can be relied upon year after year to come up with an exciting programme of music from all around the world; something for their Christmas Concert that is sure to astonish as well as to delight. […]

St. JAMES’S CHURCH, STONEHAVEN Sunday’s performance was dedicated to the memory of the late J. Finlay Squires, a stalwart of the bass section in the Stonehaven Chorus. What better music to remember him by than Rachmaninov’s Vespers. His rich basso profundo voice was, as the programme said, such an asset when the Chorus performed movements […]

DUNNOTTAR CHURCH, STONEHAVEN A capacity audience at this year’s annual Christmas concert in Dunnottar Church on Sunday afternoon raised their voices to the rafters to join with the Stonehaven Chorus in singing some of the best loved hymns and carols that have come to define the traditional Christmas. What gave Sunday’s concert its unique cachet […]