The Richard Roddis Singers

2008 - RRS 29th Annual Season

The Richard Roddis Singers are a choir of talented amateur singers who meet as a choir for only one week of the year. The singers are hand-picked by their director, Richard Roddis, and come from all over the country, from all walks of life, to enjoy a full week's music making and social activity in the glorious Derbyshire countryside. The Choir has built up a fine reputation in the area, particularly at Bakewell, where they made a commercial cassette-recording in 1991. The RRS are well-known for their attractive programming, and for their skillful and enthusiastic performances.

The choir was formed in 1980, and they have undertaken many exciting ventures together, including representing Britain in a European Choral Festival, recording for BBC radio and television, the Bakewell cassette, and they have sung all over the Midlands and South-West at over 20 venues, including Exeter Cathedral, Buckfast Abbey and Southwell Minster. In 1999 they sang at the English Bruckner Society's annual conference.

The year 2000 was a special year for the choir, as well as the millennium it was their 21st anniversary. To celebrate, that year's week was dedicated to just one work: the Monteverdi Vespers. Easter 2004 saw the Richard Roddis Singers' 25th Annual Singing Week, and their 15th to be based at the Nightingale Centre, Great Hucklow. To mark the occasion the choir performed Mass in B Minor by JS Bach (Read a review).

2008 Concert Series

Vaughan Williams: Sons of Light
Brahms: Zigeunerlieder
(subject to change)

Venues

All Saints' Church, Bakewell, Thursday, 27 March 2008, 7.30pm (Church Website)
Buxton, Friday, 28 March 2008, 7.30pm
St. Mary's Church, Wirksworth, Saturday, 29 March 2008, 7.30pm (Church Website)

Maps and Directions

Pietà - Richard Roddis

You can now hear a sample of the choir's work by downloading an MP3 file of a performance of Pietà, a piece written by Richard Roddis specially for the choir. You can either download it as a 64kbps MP3 (3.87 Mbytes) or a 128kbps MP3 (higher quality but much bigger).

Pietà is based on a poem called 'Endless Sorrow' by Margot Arthurton - 1994

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