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Music
at
St
John's
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 Simon
Winters - Musical Director - Simon joined us in
January 2005. He was educated at Bancroft's School and St Anne's
College, Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal College of
Organists. Besides St John's, he is also musical director of the
chamber choir Felicitas and of Epping Forest Voices, and is well
known to many singers in Epping as he conducts the ECCA Choir [Epping
Church
Choirs
Association]. Somehow he still finds time to
teach piano, organ and recorder at Chigwell and Brentwood Schools.
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Our Choir
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 Our
robed
choir
has around 25 members with ages ranging from
7 to 70. It sings at the
9:20am Sunday Eucharist on the first, third and fourth Sundays, at our
monthly Choral Evensong on the second Sunday of the month and at other
special services.
The choir enjoys
singing a wide range of music - from Gregorian chant to Howard Goodall
and much in between...
We
have a junior choir which follows the RSCM's Voice for Life scheme and we encourage
our children to work towards the scheme's awards.
The
choir
is
accompanied
by
our four manual organ - more information
to
be found > here.
Choral
Settings The
Parish
Communion at 9:20am at St John's uses sung settings for the Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei. Simon Winters, our musical
director, has composed an Epping Mass setting, which is used for most
services; the music is in the service booklets for Ordinary Time.
Alternatively the
Caesar setting is sung.
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 Choir
Trips
2006 visit
to Llandaff Cathedral
> photographs here.
May
2009
trip
to
Southwell
Minster
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Rehearsals on
Thursdays:
Junior
Choir 7.15 - 8.15pm
Adult
Choir 7.45
- 9.00pm
For further
details contact Simon Winters
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Band
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 The Band, our
instrumental group, accompanies worship at our UpFront, (lay-led
all-age service), which is usually on the second Sunday of the
month. Currently we have a wide range of musicians - around
twelve in all - with instruments ranging from oboe to piccolo, via
trumpet and guitar... performing a mixture of traditional and more
recent hymn tunes to accompany the service.
The band rehearses before the UpFront
Service on the second Sunday of the month at 9am. For
further details contact Simon Winters
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Other Music in Church
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 Bells
are rung before the start of the 9:20am service
by the team of bell ringers. Find out more about Bell
ringing and the bells on the Bell
Ringing page |
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 Various groups and
organisations use the church for concerts. Any concerts
booked in the next month are to be found on the
Events Page.
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Coffee
Concerts - a Saturday morning concert, coffee served from
11am,
concert starts at 11:30am. The current series are all organ
recitals, starting on
13 March - Matthew
Jorysz, organ scholar at St
John's.
10 April - David
Boarder
15 May - Simon
Winters
12 June - David Cook
17 July - David
Winters
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| ECCA
- An ecumenical choir of around 50 voices drawn mainly from church
choirs in the Epping district |
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 Chigwellian
Choral
Society
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 Epping
Forest
Band
a popular brass band which plays regular concerts at
St John's
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 Felicitas (conducted by Simon Winters) - sing
regularly at St John's. They have a new CD of sacred and secular
music available
to buy from Simon Winters.
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| Harlow Chorus |
 Harlow
Symphony
Orchestra at
St John's 7:30pm Sunday 4th July
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London Oriana choir [Listen to the London Oriana Choir recorded in St John's]
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For Sale
only £10, a limited
edition
CD
of
the
Organ Spectacular performed  by David and
Simon Winters on St John's organ before the restoration - available
from Simon Winters
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