Welcome
Welcome to our 43rd season. Yes – 43! And we have an exciting programme to share with you.
We start our season with a Come & Sing Day, performing choruses from Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. We sing old and new British music at Shapwick Church to mark an Autumn evening and return to Blandford Parish Church for a concert of Baroque Christmas music with the Sinfonietta Players. Our two Noël! Noël! concerts, one in Dorchester and – for the first time – the other at Clayesmore School, end the year with a festive ring.
We enjoy two collaborations with specialist period ensemble Wessex Baroque Collective. In the New Year we give the final concert of the Shaftesbury Baroque Festival, celebrating one of the greatest female composers of the era. Milton Abbey is the magnificent setting for our rendition of JS Bach’s St John Passion on Palm Sunday. Nature is the theme of our next concert in Wimborne Minster and we will be accompanied by a brass quintet. The highlight of this concert will be a performance of Seven Songs of Nature by Joseph Phibbs, premiered in 2025 in London. Following a highly successful concert in Athelhampton House in July 2025, we return there to explore more musical links with its history.
We are proud to present you with a varied and exciting programme and look forward to seeing you at our concerts.
David Gostick, Director of Music
Next event
Come and Sing: Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man
Saturday 27 September 2025 at 2.00 pm
Methodist Church, Wimborne
Join us in one of the most powerful and popular modern works. By turns exciting, dramatic and moving, the lyrical melodies and driving rhythms carry the singers forward on an emotional journey.
All are welcome – you will be supported by BSC members during the afternoon rehearsal and early evening, informal performance, between which you will be refreshed by the delicious tea provided by Sinfonietta Choir members.
You can book your place here or contact Jan Perrett on 07780 702287 or
Tickets: £20 in advance (£24 on the door), £5 Students/under18, to include music hire and tea.
Concert Dates 2025-26
For your diary:
Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir concerts and events planned for the 2025/2026 Season:
Saturday 27th September 2025 at 2.00pm
Come & Sing: Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man at Wimborne Methodist Church
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Saturday 18th October 2025 at 5.00pm
Music for an Autumn Evening at St Bartholomew's Church, Shapwick
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Saturday 29th November 2025 at 7.30pm
Christmas Baroque with the Sinfonietta Players, at Blandford Parish Church
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Monday 15th December 2025 at 7.30pm
Noël! Noël! at Clayesmore School
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Friday 19th December 2025 at 7.30pm
Noël! Noël! at Dorchester Corn Exchange
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Sunday 25th January 2026 at 3.00pm
Joyful Mysteries as part of Shaftesbury Festival of Baroque at St Peter's Church, Shaftesbury
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Sunday 29th March 2026 at 3.00pm
Bach: St John Passion with the Wessex Baroque Collective, at Milton Abbey
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Saturday 23rd May 2026 at 7.30pm
Serenade to Nature with a Brass Quintet at Wimborne Minster
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Friday 3rd July 2026 at 5.30 for 7.00pm
Ghosts of Athelhampton at Athelhampton House
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