The Collati Singers is a chamber choir conducted by Trefor Farrow, which - in 'normal' times - rehearses in Bittaford near Ivybridge. The choir’s name comes from the Latin word collati, which means bringing together, as in 'to collate'. Trefor and his wife Gillian (soprano) set the choir up in 2013. Our aim is, in the main, to sing challenging unaccompanied music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, as well as more recent works from twentieth and twenty-first century composers. In addition a lighter repertoire, including a cappella arrangements in jazz style of well-known songs, is occasionally included in the programme. The choir has now grown to a membership of over 30 and has gone from strength to strength. And by the way, Collati is pronounced Col-lah-tee...
Audience feedback:
"... this choir is great - almost as good as The Sixteen!'
“...I don’t know what it is, but you just have a little bit of magic about you!"
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Audience feedback:
"... this choir is great - almost as good as The Sixteen!'
“...I don’t know what it is, but you just have a little bit of magic about you!"
collatisingers@gmail.com www.facebook.com/collatisingers 01364 643134 / 07900 553077 / 07713 087994
VIRTUAL COLLATI CONTINUES! |
Photo: Andrew Lester
Released just in time for Christmas 2020, our fourth 'Virtual Collati' recording of Christmas Song - composed and arranged by our very own musical director Trefor Farrow, ended the year on a positive note. Again all tracks were recorded remotely during lockdown. Trefor Farrow - musical director, composer and arranger, lyrics Gillian Webster - lyrics, audio and video mixing/editing Sopranos: Nicola Davies, Fee Machen, Gillian Webster, Alison O'Connell Altos: Laurette Guest, Janet Hooper, Pollyanna Magne, Kate Purver, Gillian Webster Tenors: Richard Coombs, Trefor Farrow, Carol Law, John Messham, Gillian Webster Bass: Den Anderson, Trefor Farrow, David Schura, Ian Wiseman Photography: Richard Lester Our third 'Virtual Collati' recording was Autumn Leaves by Joseph Kosma, all recorded remotely on mobile phones and tablets (released 7th November 2020 under PRS Limited Online Music Licence). Credits as follows: Trefor Farrow - musical director Gillian Webster - audio and video mixing/editing Sopranos: Alice Beverly, Nicola Davies, MaryBeth Dunstan, Ruth Frampton, Janet Hooper, Fee Machen, Gillian Webster Altos: Laurette Guest, Pollyanna Magne, Kate Purver Tenors: Richard Coombs, Giles Frampton, Carol Law, John Messham Bass: Den Anderson, Richard Coombs, Giles Frampton, David Schura, Ian Wiseman Photography: Kirsty Webster-Crowe, Gillian Webster This was our second 'Virtual Collati' recording of Sweet Day So Cool by David Jepson (b. 1941). All recorded remotely on mobile phones or tablets during COVID-19 (released 17th May 2020). Credits as follows: Trefor Farrow - musical director, tenor & bass; Gillian Webster - mixing and editing, 1st soprano Fee Machen - soprano solo, 1st and 2nd soprano Janet Hooper - 2nd soprano Alison O'Connell - 2nd soprano Nicola Davies - soprano & alto Pollyanna Magne - alto Kate Purver - alto Richard Coombs - tenor Giles Frampton - tenor Carol Law - tenor Den Anderson - bass Photography - Andrew Lester
We were very proud to release our first 'Virtual Collati' recording of Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus (4th May 2020). All recorded remotely in the privacy of our own homes – on mobile phones and tablets during COVID-19. Trefor Farrow - musical director, tenor & bass Gillian Webster - mixing and editing, soprano & alto Nicola Davies - soprano & alto Mary Beth Dunstan - soprano Janet Hooper - soprano Fee Machen - soprano & alto Pollyanna Magne - alto Kate Purver - alto Richard Coombs - tenor Giles Frampton - tenor Carol Law - tenor Den Anderson - bass |
CONCERTS TO COME:
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Concerts in 2021
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Saturday 17th April 2021- CANCELLED due to covid19
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St Mary's Church, High Street, Totnes TQ9 5NN
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
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Saturday 6th November 2021 – fingers crossed
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Buckfast Abbey, Buckfast TQ11 0EE
7.30pm Tickets £10 from Buckfast Abbey website www.buckfast.org.uk, from Buckfast Abbey gift shop, or from the Abbey stewards on the door on the evening of the concert. |
Programme TBC
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Concerts in 2020
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Saturday 25th April 2020 - CANCELLED due to covid19
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St Petroc's Church, South Brent TQ10 9AG
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Les Chansons des Roses - Morten Lauridsen
Shakespeare Love Songs - Owain Park Five Anthems - Henry Purcell Four Sacred Part Songs - Felix Mendelssohn |
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Saturday 18th July 2020 - CANCELLED
due to covid19 |
St James's Church, Christow EX6 7LZ
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
A concert of light music including selections from Jenkins - Motets, selections from By Popular Request (arrangements of well known songs in a light jazz idiom) plus a few Church anthems ancient and modern.
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Saturday 14th November 2020 - CANCELLED
by Buckfast Abbey due to covid19 |
Buckfast Abbey, Buckfast TQ11 0EE
7.30pm Tickets £10. These can be bought online through the Abbey website www.buckfast.org.uk, from the Abbey gift shop, or from the Abbey stewards on the door on the evening of the concert, if there are any remaining. |
Excerpts from Rachmaninov Vespers, anthems by Byrd; Dove’s Seek Him that Maketh the Seven Stars and Rutter’s Gloria, both accompanied by Peter King (organ).
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Sunday 13th December, 3pm, 2020 - CANCELLED due to covid19
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St Mary's Church, Totnes, TQ9 5NN 3pm!!
Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Christmas concert - programme to be confirmed.
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PREVIOUS CONCERTS
2014 – 2019 |
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Sunday 15th December 2019
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St Andrew's Church, Ashburton TQ13 7DT
Christmas Concert 3pm. Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Seasonal music including 16th century motets by Palestrina and Victoria, alongside modern pieces by Chilcott and Rutter amongst others. In addition The Damerel Belles will perform Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols (SSA), with harp accompaniment by Emma Graham, all conducted by Trefor Farrow.
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Saturday 2nd November 2019
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Buckfast Abbey, Buckfast TQ11 0EE
7.30pm Tickets £10 from Buckfast Abbey website www.buckfast.org.uk, from Buckfast Abbey gift shop, or from the Abbey stewards on the door on the evening of the concert. |
Bernstein - Chichester Psalms
Palestrina - Missa Brevis and pieces by Rachmaninov and Esenvalds. Organ: Peter King, harp: Emma Graham, percussion: Shan Chana. Many thanks to the Bryan Foster Charitable Trust for their support for this concert. |
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Saturday 13th July 2019
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Plympton St Maurice Church, PL7 1NH
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Rutter's Birthday Madrigals and a selection of English anthems, plus lighter music including motets by Karl Jenkins and some jazz standards. Solos by Fee Machen, Janet Hooper, Clare Lash-Williams and Gillian Webster.
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Saturday 11th May 2019
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St Andrew's Church, Ashburton, TQ13 7DT 7.30pm
The Damerel Belles women's ensemble, conducted by Trefor Farrow, performed as part of the second Ashburton Choirs Festival 2019 Tickets £6 (£2 under 15) from choir members, from Ashburton Information Centre or on the door. |
The programme included a mixture of classical and lighter genres, including pieces by Purcell and Willcox, and ending with a performance of 'Jazz Songs of Innocence', five poems by William Blake (1757-1827) set to music by Bob Chilcott (b. 1955).
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The Ashburton Choir's Festival is non-competitive. The Damerel Belles performed in the first half of the concert, whilst the second half of the evening featured The Big Noise Chorus.
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Saturday 6th April 2019
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St Mary's Church, High Street, Totnes TQ9 5NN
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
English Renaissance and early Baroque motets:
by Gibbons, Byrd, Parsons, Tomkins, Purcell and Tallis, contrasted with modern pieces: Lukaszweski – Like As the Waves and Two Lenten Motets Esenvalds – Only In Sleep and O Salutaris Hostia (soprano soloists Fee Machen & Janet Hooper) Todd – Vidi Speciosam Rutter – Hymn to the Creator of Light |
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Saturday 24th November 2018
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Buckfast Abbey, Buckfast TQ11 0EE
7.30pm. Tickets £10. These can be bought online through the Abbey website www.buckfast.org.uk, from the Abbey gift shop, or from the Abbey stewards on the door on the evening of the concert, if there are any remaining. |
Featuring Goodall's stunning Eternal Light Requiem with tenor soloist Matthew Oakes and soprano soloists Teresa Stubbs and Gillian Webster, accompanied by acclaimed organist Peter King, alongside unaccompanied baroque and Renaissance motets.
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Saturday 14th July 2018
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St Bartholomew's Church, Yealmpton PL8 2HG
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Programme based on choral settings of the words of Shakespeare, to include:
O Mistress Mine Murrrill Three Shakespeare Songs Vaughan Williams Silence and Music Vaughan Williams Greensleeves Vaughan Williams To Daffodils Farrar Fear Ye More Tavener It Was a Lover and His Lass Harris Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred Harris PLUS a set by the small women's ensemble The Damerel Belles, also conducted by Trefor Farrow |
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Saturday 5th May 2018
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St Mary's Church, High Street, Totnes TQ9 5NN
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Programme to include Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor; Monteverdi Dixit Dominus and Two Motets; Whitacre Water Night, Sleep and Her Sacred Spirit Soars; Gjeilo Serenity and Gorecki Totus Tuus
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16th December 2017
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St Luke's Church, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0DA
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Christmas Concert - to include Bob Chilcott's On Christmas Night, Vaughan Williams' Fantasia and a selection of more familiar Christmas music.
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Saturday 18th November 2017
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Buckfast Abbey, Buckfast TQ11 0EE
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
The autumn programme concert in Buckfast Abbey was Palestrina’s Stabat Mater, Taverner's Western Wynde Mass and Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna. Organ - Richard Lea.
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Saturday 17th June 2017
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St John's Church, Bridgetown, Totnes, TQ9 5AJ
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Programme included Trois Chanson by Ravel,
A Boy and a Girl and Sleep by Eric Whitacre, a selection of arrangements of folk songs by the Kings Singers and various motets and part songs. |
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Friday 19th May 2017
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Ashburton Choirs Festival: St Andrew's Church, Ashburton, TQ13 7DU 7.30pm
The Collati Singers are performing in the first half of this concert, which is shared with The Singers Upstairs and The Devonly Singers who will sing in the second half. |
Tickets £6 available from choir members or on the door.
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Saturday 4th March 2017
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Buckfast Abbey, Buckfast TQ11 0EE
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Programme included Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb
and unaccompanied ancient and modern church music (Byrd, Gibbons, Parsons, Bairstow, Walton etc). Soloists in the Britten: Clare Lash-Williams (soprano), Cheryl Stead (alto), Sue Hadow (tenor), Den Anderson (bass). Solo in Walton: Terry Ash (tenor). |
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Saturday 17th December 2016
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St Luke's Church, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0DA
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Christmas concert - Poulenc Christmas Motets and seasonal music ancient and modern.
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Saturday 17th September 2016
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Buckfast Abbey, Buckfast TQ11 0EE
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Programme to include Bach Lobet den Herrn, Tye Euge Bone mass, Britten Hymn to Saint Cecilia and Richard Rodney Bennett Missa Brevis.
Soprano soloist: Clare Lash-Williams |
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Saturday 16th April 2016
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St John's Church, Bridgetown, Totnes, TQ9 5AJ 7.30 pm
Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Programme to include a selection of English 16th century madrigals and some modern light music arrangements.
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Wednesday 16th December 2015
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St Luke's Church, Buckfastleigh, TQ11 0DA 7.30pm
Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Christmas concert - advent and seasonal music.
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Thursday 10th December 2016
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St Mary's Church, Rattery, TQ10 9LD
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Christmas concert - advent and seasonal unaccompanied music.
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Sunday 22nd November 2015
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St John's Church, Bridgetown, Totnes, TQ9 5AJ N.B. 3pm
Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Howells' Requiem, Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli and motets by Jenkins, Gjeilo & Lukaszweski.
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Saturday 24th October 2015
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Buckfast Abbey, Buckfast TQ11 0EE
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Howells' Requiem, Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli and motets by Jenkins, Gjeilo & Lukaszweski.
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Saturday 4th October 2014
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Buckfast Abbey, Buckfast TQ11 0EE
7.30pm Entry free, retiring collection. No tickets - just turn up. |
Byrd Mass for Four Voices, Lauridsen Lux Aeterna, Palestrina motets.
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Saturday 5th April 2014
The first concert by the choir newly formed by Trefor and Gillian before it became The Collati Singers. |
St Bartholomew's Church, Yealmpton
7.30pm Tickets £5 on the door or from choir members. |
Richard Rodney Bennett Missa Brevis, Lauridsen Chanson des Roses, Palestrina motets, two songs by Gillian Webster sung by Clare Lash-Williams, and a selection of familiar songs in light jazz style.
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