What’s on this 2025-26 season
St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury
Tickets for the Gallery are still available. Tickets for the Nave are sold out. Ex Cathedra’s annual pre-Christmas concert has become a cornerstone of Shrewsbury's musical calendar, proferring a feast of seasonal favourites both traditional and modern, together with a menu of inspiring readings, all served up by gentle candlelight.
See this year's concert preview on YouTube below.
Gallery: £22; children and full-time students £11 - AVAILABLE
Ground floor (Nave): £25 with optional reserved seating for Patrons; children and full-time students £12.00 - SOLD OUT
Please note 7.00 pm start
NB: Early booking is recommended to avoid disappointment.
Running time approx. 2 hours 10 minutes, including interval.
Please note early start time of 7.00pm.
Early booking is recommended
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“One of Britain’s very best choirs” New York Times
Please note early start time of 7.00pm.
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St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury
** NB There has been a change of date, time, venue and programme for this concert **
Johann Sebastian Bach
– Weichnachtsoratorium, BWV 248 Simfonia (arr. A. Korepanovа)
– Choral prelude “Jesus bleibet meine freude,” BWV 147 (arr. W. Kempff)
– DIE SEELE RUHT IN JESU HÄNDEN (My Soul Doth Rest in Jesus' Keeping) from Cantata No. 127 Andante (arr. Harold Bauer)
– Choral prelude “Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme”, BWV 140 (arr. W. Kempff)
– Concerto in A minor for four harpsichords, BWV 1065 After Vivaldi ( arr. Florian Noack)
– Bach - Busoni. Chaconne in D-minor from Violin Partita No.2 BWV 1004
Sergei Rachmaninov
– Prelude Op.3 n 2
– Preludes Op. 23 n 1,2,3,4,5,6
– Preludes Op. 32 n 5, 12
– Preludes. Op. 23 n 7, 8
£22
Children and full-time students: £11
Polina Osetinskaya studied at the Moscow and St Petersburg conservatories. She has recently given a series of triumphant recitals around Europe, including playing three of Prokofiev’s piano concertos in a single concert, and is accompanist to the great Soviet-born Israeli violinist Maxim Vengerov, with whom she will be appearing at London’s Barbican Centre shortly after her recital in Shrewsbury.
Praised by fellow pianist Gabriela Montero as "A Queen, a grand and real artist … so true to herself and her convictions".
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Maidment Building, Shrewsbury School
Tim Garland, saxes & bass clarinet; Malcolm Creese, double bass; Gwilym Simcock, piano.
Acoustic Triangle's music contains a wide variety of influences – from ancient themes and folk styles through impressionism and the jazz era to the avant-garde – and blurs the perceived boundaries between genres. Their individual careers have taken them all over the globe; as an ensemble, they are known as one of the most original and respected British groups, always performing without amplification.
£18
Children and full-time students: £9
They are widely known for their site-specific works, particularly in sacred buildings. Much of the group's repertoire is specially composed by Tim Garland and Gwilym Simcock, but it also includes music by Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Bill Evans, Olivier Messiaen and Maurice Ravel.
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