Thank you to everyone who supported our June 2024 concert, where we were delighted to present a programme of choral and organ music to celebrate St Alban’s Day, in an inaugural concert at St Peter’s Church, following its major refurbishment. 
 
Assistant conductor Naomi Jones led the choir in a variety of works – Mendelssohn’s ever-popular extended anthem Hear my Prayer, Grieg’s achingly beautiful Ave Maris Stella and Rossini’s dramatic O Salutaris Hostia.
 
The choir also premièred a specially commissioned setting of the Ave Verum Corpus from BBC prize-winning composer Sarah Frances Jenkins and completed the programme with popular American/Scandinavian composer Morten Lauridsen’s rich and intensely moving Lux Aeterna – a non-liturgical Requiem.
 
St Albans Choral Society were joined by outstanding young Cornish soprano Lucy Mitten and organist Richard Harvey, in his final concert as the long-standing accompanist of the choir. Richard was afforded the opportunity to shine in César Franck’s Chorale in A minor, the Belgian composer’s final masterpiece.