Concert Reviews
October 2021: Hope, Renewal and Inspiration
Saturday 9 October 2021
Exeter Cathedral
“A fabulous performance … as people were leaving at the end of the concert, you could feel the buzz and excitement …
November 2019: Saints and Angels
Saturday 23 November 2019
St David's Church, Exeter
Kieran White - tenor
Peter King - organ
David Ogden - guest conductor
To perform a concert to such a high standard on only three rehearsals with a guest conductor is an indication of the continuing excellence of the Exeter Festival Chorus.
July 2019: Vivaldi Gloria & Mozart Mass in C minor
Saturday 13 July 2019
Exeter Cathedral
Rhiannon Llewellyn - soprano
Anna Sideris - soprano
Catherine King - contralto
Kieran White - tenor
Rob Clark - baritone
Nigel Perrin - conductor
Two choral classics were presented to a full Cathedral by Exeter Festival Chorus on a balmy summer’s evening.
April 2019: Miserere
Saturday 6 April 2019
St Michael's Church, Exeter
It was encouraging to see St Michael’s church well-filled for this Exeter Festival Chorus concert, a programme of music for Lent entitled “Miserere”.
December 2018: Peace on Earth
Saturday 15 December 2018
Exeter Cathedral
Baritone Roderick Williams OBE
Band of HM Royal Marines, CTCRM
Conductor Nigel Perrin
This concert, given in aid of the Lord Mayor’s Appeal for the armed forces charity SSAFA, aimed to bring together three disparate themes: World War I, Christmas, and the choir’s own 25th anniversary.
October 2018: An Evening with J S Bach
Saturday 20 October 2018
Sidmouth Parish Church
It was an imaginative idea to present four of Bach’s wonderful motets in a single programme, interspersed with two of his French Suites.
July 2018: Claudio Monteverdi Vespers 1610
Saturday 14 July 2018
Exeter Cathedral
It was with a sense of excited anticipation that I sat in a very warm Exeter Cathedral awaiting the start of one of the greatest choral works ever written, confident that Nigel Perrin and the EFC would deliver a credible performance.
Audience comments on the Monteverdi Vespers concert
"The evening brought out many emotions and even the occasional tear due to the magnitude of what we were experiencing... a memorable evening."
March 2018: Rachmaninov Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
Saturday 17 March 2018
Exeter Cathedral
Exeter Festival Chorus started the celebrations for their 25th anniversary in style in Exeter Cathedral last night.
December 2017: A Ceremony of Carols
Saturday 9 December 2017
Buckfast Abbey
Planning a Christmas Concert programme with any degree of originality is a tough call for a choir director,