A warm welcome to you from Antiphon

Founded in 2000, Antiphon is a chamber choir based in the Northumbrian Tyne Valley with a particular interest in early sacred music. 

Under the leadership of our conductor and musical director John Roper, the choir has built up a wide repertoire of English and continental works ranging  from Dufay, Josquin and Palestrina to Tallis, Byrd and Tomkins. 

Antiphon has sung in well over 30 Northumberland churches for patronal and other festival services and also performed concerts in English Heritage and National Trust sites. In 2017 the choir also performed live on BBC Radio 3 as part of the Free Thinking Festival and has also been on tour in Italy, France and Belgium, as well various parts of the UK .

Antiphon has been delighted to collaborate with other professional groups to produce works for the local community, involving local composers, musicians and singers.These include The Cantata of the Creatures (based on St Francis’ great hymn) and Northumbrian Fragments, a song-cycle of music celebrating Northumbria’s saints, performed in Hexham Abbey in 2011. This was revised and performed on Holy Island in 2013 as part of the Lindisfarne Gospels celebrations.

Antiphon is also available to sing for weddings and civil partnership ceremonies.Please see our 'Weddings' page for more details.

We are a sociable bunch of around 28 members and we are always pleased to audition good singers who share our love of early music and can sight sing well and hold a part. We practise on a Tuesday night in St John Lee church, which is about 1 mile outside Hexham. Please contact us through our email info@antiphonchoir.co.uk for more details.

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2019 Season

Full details of each choir   performance to be published nearer the time.


Saturday 2nd February at 7pm  
A Candlemas Liturgy
St Cuthbert’s Church, Bellingham. 

Seasonal music plus liturgical music written by Conductor John Roper
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Saturday, 6th April at 7.45pm
Concert.
"Treading the Upward Path"
A devotional concert travelling from
Palm Sunday to the Ascension based on
T.L. de Victoria's "Missa pro Defunctis" 
and other works.
​St Mary's Roman Catholic Church,Hexham
               
May 25th to June 1st   
Antiphon West Country Tour

Services
Sunday May 26th – Evensong in Frome Church
   ​Monday May 27th – Evensong in Wells Cathedral
     Friday May 31st – Marian Eucharist Salisbury                                         Cathedral                                                                                               
Concert
Thursday May 30th 
 T.L. de Victoria's
     "Missa pro Defunctis" 
and other works.
St Benedict’s Church, Glastonbury


Saturday, 23rd November at 7.30pm 
  Autumn concert  
Highlights of Rachmaninoff Vespers
​ plus other settings of the Vespers Psalms
Hexham Abbey
 
 
Sunday 22nd December at 6.30pm
Festival of Lessons and Carols
St John Lee Church

 
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