THE SERENADE
Friday 26th June 2026
The Water Tower Garden
Five Flower Songs, Op. 47 Benjamin Britten
ii The Succession of the Four Sweet Months words by Robert Herrick
iv. The Evening Primrose words by John Clare
Monday’s Child from Five Childhood Lyrics
John Rutter words: Traditional
The Lads in their Hundreds from A Shropshire Lad George Butterworth Alex Tarsia - bass
If it’s Magic Stevie Wonder
The King’s Swingers arranged by Nicholas Todd
Solitude
James Whitbourn words by John Henry Newman
Deep River Spiritual arranged by Norman Luboff
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel Spiritual arranged by Moses Hogan
Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) Billy Joel
The King’s Men arranged by Kirby Shaw
Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffman Jacques Offenbach
Coco Ursell Beer & Emily Young - soprano
Sun, Moon, Sea and Stars Bob Chilcott
Morphy Minter & Eric Qiu - baritones
Song to the Moon from Rusalka
Pani Cochrane - soprano
Youth and Love from Songs of Travel
Louis Plaskett - soprano
Antonín Dvořák
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Seaside Rendezvous Freddie Mercury arranged by Paul Hart
Sleep Eric Whitacre words by Charles Anthony Silvestri
We Gather Together Traditional Dutch Hymn arranged by Stephen Paulus
I Touch God In My Song Ivo Antognini words by Rabindranath Tagore
The Serenade Choir
DirectedbyWilliamBersey
Ophelia Balmforth, Olya Bilyk, Hania Birnie, Madeleine Boileau, Chiara Boiteux, Sophia Chandy, Ewan Christian, Annabelle Clifford, Pani Cochrane, Oliver Davies, Caspar Del Mar, Felix Elliott, Bella Gabbitas, Edward Giblin, Freddie Gourdie, James Green, Cordelia Holden, Qianxi Huang, Angus Humphreys, Tanya Koff, Shira Lahav, Xavier Martin, Cici Mellor, Morph Minter, Abigail Ng, Bernice Ng, Annabel Nicholas, Stephen Oh, Kimora Okeke, Oladipo Oyetunde, Bella Pattison, Romilly Pellumbi, Abel Phelan Williams, Clevan Phelan Williams, Louis Plaskett, Natasha Pryde, Sean Qian, Eric Qiu, Spencer Ready, Eva Ridley, Nikki Ridley, Tilly Rogers, Annalise Roy, Barnaby Scholes, Dylan Shearer, Isabelle StewartStanton, Greg Swinford, Alex Tarsia, Ewan Tatnell, Monty Tatnell, Nicholas Todd, Eunice Tsang, Joyce Tsui, Coco Ursell Beer, Freddie Ursell Beer, Barney Valentino, Johanna von Andreae, Edward Wilson, Raife Withey-Harrison, Charley Woodhead, Caleb Yoo, Emily Young, Shirley Zhang
The King’s Men
DirectedbyGregSwinford
Ewan Christian, Felix Elliott, Morph Minter Sean Qian, Alex Tarsia, Edward Wilson
The King’s Swingers
DirectedbyNicholasTodd
Olya Bilyk, Madeleine Boileau, Pani Cochrane, Bella Gabbitas, Cordelia Holden, Romilly Pellumbi, Eva Ridley, Isabelle Stewart-Stanton
Annalise Roy – piano
Yair Avidor – guitar