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At Choral Eucharist on 19th November, 2023, the choir sang the Missa Brevis by Jonathan Dove (b. 1959). It was commissioned by the Cathedral Organists’ Association and first performed at Wells Cathedral in 2009. The organ features prominently in the setting, and its unsettling compound time signatures and vibrant chorus sections bring a new outlook to the familiar words of the mass movements. T...

Sung by the junior and senior choristers of St Michael and All Angels, Bassett, Southampton, this piece, by Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, was commissioned by the RSCM to mark the coronation of King Charles III in May 2023. Sung at the "Summer Pudding Concert" in St Michael's church on Wednesday, 19th July, 2023.

Daybreak, an orignal composition by J Fashole-Luke, performed by the JFL Trio, with Lewis Treasure on bass, and Ted Carrasco on drums, at St Michael and All Angels, Bassett, Southampton on 17th August, 2023.

An excerpt from Ragion nell'alma Siede (Flaminia's aria from Il Mondo della Luna ) - J. Haydn (Performed by Imogen Baker (Soprano) & Daniel Silcock (Piano) Flaminia laments her fate as she is in love but not with the person she is supposed to marry. She says that reason usually rules her thoughts but when love takes over, it takes over everything in its path. From a recital at St Michael and Al...

This lesser known secular cantata by George Frederic Handel was written for and dedicated to Queen Anne, to be performed on her birthday in February 1713, but it also celebrated the Treaty of Utrecht. This aria was originally scored for Soprano and Alto duet with solo oboe and orchestra. I discovered this work featured in a film and immediately saw the similarities in timbre that the alto tromb...

FRIDAY, May 19th - SU STRINGS CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS, Saint-Saëns This was a really fun evening with SU Strings who gave us a varied programme of pieces for string orchestra, soloists and small ensembles. The highlight was undoubtedly Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals, which featured several other instrumentalists and was played with exuberance and humour. For more details of concerts at St...

Yihan Chen is a postgraduate student in Music Performance at the University of Southampton, studying piano with Professor Helen Cawthorne. She began learning the piano at the age of six and was admitted to Henan University at the top of the province in the Chinese university entrance examination. She won several first prizes in piano competitions during her time at university and spent a year o...

A native of Suzhou, lyric soprano Yijia Cheng started her professional music training at the age of five. Among many of her musical achievements, Yijia performed at the 2021 Suzhou Spring Festival Gala hosted by the City Broadcasting and Television Station as a guest artist with Suzhou Symphony Orchestra. She has won music awards both nationally and internationally. Currently she is pursuing he...

Emily Manning is in her third and final year studying for a BA in Music at Southampton. She started playing the flute at home in London when she was seven. Since then, she has played in many school orchestras and bands, as well as being a member of the National Scout & Guide Symphony Orchestra & Concert Band, to which she will be returning for her 7th year this summer to play piccolo. She has b...

Yang Kexin studied at Anhui Normal University as an undergraduate. She was the deputy head and principal double bass of the Symphony Orchestra of Anhui Normal University. She is principal double bass in the Southampton University Symphony Orchestra and took part in their winter and spring concerts. One of the performances from the #SpringIntoSummer concert series at St Michael's, Bassett. More ...

Jingwen Lin is from Fujian Province, China. She graduated from Xiamen University and majored in vocal performance for her bachelor’s degree. She studied folk singing and Bel Canto singing, and has participated in many symphonic choruses and operas at home and abroad, such as Yellow River Canto, Symphony No. 9, and Long March Chorus, and held many successful solo concerts. Jingwen once served as...

Xinyi Wu was born and grew up in Suzhou, China, near Shanghai. She started learning the violin at the age of six and, more than a decade later, decided to pursue music performance as her major at university. In 2022, she completed her bachelor’s degree at Soochow University School of Music, and started her master’s at the University of Southampton. Throughout her undergraduate study, she was ra...

This piece was commissioned by the RSCM for the "Sing for the King" project involving hundres of choirs singing the piece for the Coronation of king Charles III. Here it is sung by the choir of St Michael's and All Angels, Bassett, for their Family Eucharist on Sunday, May 7th.

Next Singing Day is on Wednesday, 26th October 2022. More details here: nsab.org.uk/singing-days

Choral and Organ Scholarships at St Michael's Bassett

Morning worship for Trinity Sunday 2022

The Call (Vaughan Williams)

Morning worship 1st May 2022

Good Friday liturgy

Easter Sunday worship

Maundy Thursday 14th April 2022

Service for Palm Sunday 2022

Worship for the 5th Sunday of Lent

A Prayer for Ukraine (Mykola Lysenko)

Morning Worship 20th March 2022

Evensong 13th March 2022 A prayer for Ukraine

Morning worship for Lent 2

Morning worship 6th March 2022

Morning worship 27th February 2022