CONCERTS SINCE 2021

MARCH 2026: Holy Trinity, Cuckfield
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Robert Schumann - To the stars (An die Sterne) 
Camille Saint-Saens - Calme des nuits
Eleanor Daley - grandmother moon
Eric Whitacre  - Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening
Daniel Elder - Three Nocturnes
Gerald Finzi (arr. Rathbone) - Fear no more the heat o' the sun
Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque
Lili Boulanger - Renouveau
Will Todd - Christus est Stella
James Macmillan - O Radiant Dawn
Jimmy van Heusen (arr. Charlesworth) - Moonlight Becomes You So



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DECEMBER 2025: Ardingly College Chapel
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​Our final concert for 2025 was a carol concert on 18th December at the Chapel of Ardingly College
in support of the Air Ambulance Charity.
The chapel was full and it was an honour to be performing in support of such a phenomenal charity.

DECEMBER 2025: Trinity Southover, Lewes

Chilcott - This is the truth (1) from On Christmas Night 
Congregational Carol - O come all ye faithful
Ben Parry - The Aldeburgh Carol
Trad. arr. Willcocks - Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Trad. arr. Willcocks - Silent Night
Congregational Carol - O little town of Bethlehem
Beamish - In the stillness
South Malling Choir:
I saw three ships
Sednalo E Djore Dos
Girls & Boys carol 
Congregational Carol - Hark! The herald angels sing
Stopford - Lully, Lulla, Lullay
Reading - My Christmas Wish for You
Trad. arr. Willcocks - Sussex Carol
Rutter - What sweeter music
Martin & Blane arr. Gritton - Have yourself a merry little Christmas

NOVEMBER 2025: Holy Trinity, Cuckfield

BRAHMS - A GERMAN REQUIEM
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​JUNE 2025: Trinity St John sub Castro, Lewes

​In celebration of Sir John Rutter's 80th birthday year, New Sussex Singers present Utterly Rutterly, accompanied by the Mike Horner Trio.

Farrington - Then sing we all (1,2,5,7)
Rutter - Moon River
Rutter - I would be true (Londonderry Air)
Shearing - Songs and Sonnets

INTERVAL

Rutter - Let’s Begin Again
Rutter - Banquet Fugue
Rutter - Skylark
Rutter - Heavenly Aeroplane
Rutter - Birthday Madrigals

Encore:

Rutter - The Music’s always there with you

​APRIL 2025: All Saints Lindfield

Stainer – God so Loved the World
Lotti -  Crucifixus a 8
Gibbons – Drop, drop slow tears
Durufle – Ubi Caritas
Stanford – Beati Quorum Via
Nathaniel Dett – Ave Maria
Rachmaninoff – We Hymn Thee
Wheeler – Beati Quorum Via
Rheinberger – Abendlied
Part – The Deer’s Cry
Harris – Faire is the Heaven
INTERVAL
Matthew Coleridge ​- Requiem (performed with singers and players from the wider All Saints Community)

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DECEMBER 2024: Trinity Southover, Lewes
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Ding Dong Merrily on High - trad. arr. Mack Wilberg
Sussex Carol - trad.
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Congregation)
Cecilia McDowall: Christmas Natus Est (selections)
While Shepherd’s watched (Congregation)
Tavener: The Lamb
Herbert Howells: A Spotless Rose
Gareth Treseder: Blessed be that Maid Marie

South Malling CofE School Choir:

Feliz Navidad – Jose Feliciano arr. Lee Reynolds
Christmas Magic – Lucy Armstrong

O come all ye faithful (Congregation)
Deck the Halls - trad.
Will Todd: Softly
O little town of Bethlehem (Congregation)
Gardner: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Rutter: The Very Best Time of the Year
Jingle Bells (with School Choir)
Encore: A Merry Christmas (arr. Warrell)

NOVEMBER 2024: All Saints, Lindfield

       
 A Hymne to Christ - Imogen Holst
Ave Maris Stella - Cecilia McDowall
Paradise Found - Becky McGlade
Romance for Strings Op.11 in Eb Major - Gerald Finzi
Beatus Vir - Clive Osgood

INTERVAL
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Sunrise Mass - Ola Gjeilo

 JUNE 2024: TRINITY St John sub Castro, Lewes

The Goslings – Frederick Bridge
Three Nonsense Songs – Alan Bullard
Banquet Fugue – John Rutter
The Lobster Quadrille (from Three Choruses from Alice in Wonderland) – Irving Fine
Nonsense – Richard Rodney Bennett
The Hippopotamus Song - Flanders and Swan arr. Stickles
 
INTERVAL
 
The Song that goes like this – Idle (arr. Huff)
Geographical Fugue – Ernst Toch
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park – Lehrer arr. Austin
Name that tune – Grayston Ives
Spider and the Fly – Waller arr. Chilcott
Chilli con Carne – Anders Edenroth
 
Encore
 
Seaside Rendezvous – Freddie Mercury arr. Paul Hart

APRIL 2024: Ardingly College Chapel
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New Sussex Singers joined forces with Ardingly Choral Society for a sold out performance of J.S Bach's St Matthew Passion.
Conducted by Sebastian Charlesworth (New Sussex Singers) and Robert Hammersley (ACS) with the Linden Baroque Orchestra. 
Evangelist - Richard Robbins
Jesus - Stephen Charlesworth
Soprano - Olivia Bell
Alto - Lauren Easton
Tenor - Edward Woodhouse
Bass - Matthew Duncan

DECEMBER 2023: St Michael's, Lewes
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Manning and Duffy - The Carol Singer’s Carol (from The Manchester Carols)
Macmillan - O Radiant Dawn
Congregational - The First Nowell
Sally Beamish - In The Stillness 
Bob Chilcott – The Shepherd’s Carol
Gustav Holst - In the Bleak mid-winter
arr. Willcocks - Sussex Carol
Congregational - God Rest Ye, Merry Gentleman
Children's choir pieces:
John Joubert - Torches
trad Spanish arr. Schram - A la nanita nana
Trad. arr. Barry Rose - Silent Night
John Rutter – Mary’s Lullaby
Richard Lloyd – Love came down at Christmas
arr. Willcocks - Deck the Halls
​Congregational - O Come, all ye faithful
Joint piece:
Marks arr. Allain - Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
arr. Warrell - A Merry Christmas

NOVEMBER 2023: Holy Trinity, Cuckfield

Elgar – They are at rest 
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Turtle-Dove 
Solo song: William Dennis Browne – To Gratiana Dancing and Singing 
Philip Stopford – Do not be afraid 
 POEM – The Send-Off by Wilfred Owen 
 Hubert Parry – Songs of Farewell (selections) 
-        1. My Soul there is a country 
-        3. Never weather-beaten sail 
-        4. There is an old belief 
Josef Rheinberger – Abendlied 
Richard Rodney-Bennett – A Good-Night 
Solo song: John Ireland – The Soldier from 2 Songs to Poems by Rupert Brooke 
POEM – My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling 
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Rest 
Edward Elgar – Lux Aeterna (Nimrod) 
Gabriel Faure – Agnus Dei and Lux Aeterna  and In Paradisum from Requiem

JUNE 2023: Trinity St John sub Castro, Lewes
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​H Harlen arr. Guy Turner - Over the Rainbow
Harline/Washington - When you wish upon a star
Van Heusen arr. Charlesworth – Moonlight becomes you
Raskin/Mercer arr. R Williams - Laura
Fain/Paul Francis Webster - Love is a many splendored thing
Livingston/Evans arr. Justin Got – Que sera, sera 
Mancini arr. Rutter - Moon River
Bacharach/David arr. Wendy L Jones - Alfie
Bacharach/David arr. Cederberg-Orreteg – Raindrops keep falling on my head  
Hal David/Barry arr. Lydon - We have all the time in the world
Bricusse/Newley arr. Matthew D Nielsen - Pure Imagination
Bergman/Berman/Hamlisch arr. Bunch – The way we were
Cross/Bacharach/Allen/Sager arr. S Charlesworth - Arthur's theme                        
John Williams arr. Richard Vaughan - Suo Gan
Alex North arr. Kirby Shaw - Unchained Melody
Lerner and Loewe arr. Huff - Almost like being in love
Chaplin arr. Ben Bram - Smile
Newman arr. Braggi Thorvalson - When She Loved Me
Enya arr. Austin - May it be
Mitchell arr. John Leavitt - Both sides now
Wilson arr. Bergquist - God only knows
Idle arr. Huff - Always look on the bright side of life

​APRIL 2023: Holy Trinity, Cuckfield

​Thomas Morley  – Now is the month of Maying
Haydn – Komm, holder Lenz (from The Seasons)
Ernest Moeran – Songs of Springtime
Peter Warlock arr. Tomlinson – My own country
arr. Ayres – As I went out one May morning
Finzi arr. ASG – It was a lover and his lass
Vaughan Williams - Just as the tide was flowing (from 5 English Folk Songs, no 3)
Trad. arr. Vine - Down by the Salley Gardens
Stanford – The Bluebird
Trad. arr. Holst – I love my love
Simon Austin – Jacaranda
Wilhelm Peterson - Berger – Varsang (I & II)
Våren (Last Spring) - Edvard Grieg
For the beauty of the Earth -John Rutter
When Daffodils begin to peer – Shearing

APRIL 2023: All Saints, Lindfield
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New Sussex Singers were invited to perform the beautiful and popular Requiems by John Rutter and Gabriel Fauré at All Saints Church, Lindfield, West Sussex. 

DECEMBER 2022: St Michael's, Lewes

Warlock – Bethlehem Down
Darke - In the Bleak Mid-winter
Philip Stopford - Lully, lulla, lullay
South Malling CE Primary and Nursery School

• Lawson - How far is it to Bethlehem?
• Gruber arr. Sargeant - Silent Night ​

Trad. Arr. Allwood - Jingle Bells
Lauridsen – O magnum mysterium
Rutter – Christmas Lullaby
Bach – O little one sweet
CAROLS:

• O little town of Bethlehem
• Hark! The herald angles sing
• O come, all ye faithful​

Lowell arr. Rutter - Joy to the world
A. Warrell - A merry Christmas
Martin and Blanc arr. Gritton  - Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas

​NOVEMBER 2022: St Michael's, Lewes

James MacMillan – O Radiant Dawn
Stephen Chatman – Time Pieces No.4 Clock
Benjamin Britten – ‘The Evening Primrose’ and ‘The succession of four sweet months’ from Five Flower Songs
Vaughan Williams – The Springtime of the Year (From 5 English Folk Songs)
Jonathan Dove – The Passing of the Year
Benjamin Britten – Op.53 Choral Dances from Gloriana No.3: Time and Concord
Edward Elgar - As Torrents in Summer
Kenneth V Jones - Twilight – (No.4 from Four Part-Songs)
Finzi arr. Rathbone – Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
Samuel Barber – To be sung on the water
Bob Chilcott – Even Such is time
Arthur Sullivan – The Long Day Closes​

​JUNE 2022: Trinity St John sub Castro, Lewes

Brahms - Liebeslieder Op. 52. 
Paul Carr - Old-Fashioned Love Songs
Kern arr. Blackwell - Smoke gets in your eyes
Sherwin arr. Puerling - A Nightingale sang in Berkeley square 
Cole Porter arr. Blackwell - Let’s do it
Gershwin arr. Campbell - Our Love is here to stay
​Jerome Kern arr. Chilcott - Don’t ever leave me 
Jimmy van Heusen arr. S Charlesworth - Moonlight Becomes You
Mancini arr. John Rutter - Moon River 
Ivor Novello arr. J Derbyshire - We’ll gather lilacs

APRIL 2022: Holy Trinity, Cuckfield

F M Christiansen Lamb of God

JS Bach Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 4

Ethel Smyth Komm Susser Tod
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JS Bach Magnificat in D Major BWV 243

​DECEMBER 2021: St Michael's, Lewes

Trad - O come all ye faithful
Richard Rodney Bennett – I wonder as I wander
Tchaikovsky – The Crown of Roses
Trad. – The sun in the morning (Sussex folk song)
Lauridsen – Dirait-on (from Les Chansons des Roses)
Trad/Willcocks– Tomorrow shall be my dancing day​
Trad. - Good King Wenceslas
Rutter – Shepherd’s Pipe Carol
Arvo Part - O Weisheit (From Sieben Magnificat antiphons)
Anon. – Gabriel’s Message
Anon. arr. Mathias – Sir Christemus
Trad. - Ding dong merrily on high
Britten – There is no rose (from A Ceremony of Carols)
Richard Rodney Bennett – Lullaby Baby
​Pearsall - in Dulci Jubilo
Trad. Arr. Warrell – A merry Christmas

​NOVEMBER 2021: Trinity St John sub Castro, Lewes

Healey Willan – Rise up, my love, my fair one
Samuel Barber – Sure on this shining night
Morten Lauridsen – Les Chansons des Roses
Aaron Copland – Old American Folk Songs:
- Long Time Ago (arr. Irving Fine)
- I Bought me a cat (arr. Irving Fine)
- At the River (arr. Ray Wilding-White)
- The Golden Willow Tree (arr. Gregory Rose)
Daniel Elder – Three Nocturnes:
Ballade to the moon,  Star Sonnet, Lullaby
Trad. Arr. Linda Steen Spevacek – Shenandoah
Stephen Sondheim –Sunday
(from Sunday in the Park with George)
Ernest Charles – When I have sung my songs to you
Trad. (arr. Stephen Jackson) – The Rio Grande