The overarching theme of this concert is the connection between people and place: our relationship as human beings with the natural world, and how music – and poetry - can help to connect the two. We are glad to have the opportunity to remember and to pay tribute to our much missed and much-loved former choir member, Frensham parishioner, and owner of Pierrepont Farm, Josephine Baker, more commonly known as Jo Reader. This theme was close to Jo’s heart.

It is thanks to a generous bequest from Jo that we can offer our audience at this concert the world première of a new work, "Five Nocturnes", commissioned from Owain Park, one of the country's most inspirational young composers, who is also an accomplished performer in his own right. The work sets five different poems to music, exploring the different shades of night-time, from the setting of the sun to its rising again the following morning. We think Jo would have approved! We think as well that she would have enjoyed the poems of Rosie May Jones, which seek to help us all imagine a better world.

Complimentary bubbly and soft drinks will be served after the concert.

The Waverley Singers is a long-established, friendly and enterprising choir of around 100 singers, based in Farnham, Surrey.  Our musical director is Richard Pearce.

We perform four or more concerts a year with professional soloists and instrumentalists, in venues which include St. Andrew's church, Farnham, St Lawrence's church, Alton, Farnham Maltings, St Andrew's Garrison church, Aldershot, and Guildford Cathedral.

01252 792609

www.waverleysingers.com