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52<h3>2026</h3>
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55  <strong>Saturday 13 June at 5.30pm</strong><br>
56  Concert at St Luke’s Church<br>
57  <i>Full Circle - A year in poetry & sacred music</i>
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61  <strong>Sunday 5 July at 6pm</strong><br>
62  St Martin’s Parish Church<br>
63  <i>Patronal Festival Choral Evensong</i>
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67  <strong>Sunday 4 October at 6pm</strong><br>
68  St George’s Church, St Ouen<br>
69  <i>150th Anniversary Choral Evensong</i>
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73  <strong>Sunday 29 November at 6.30pm</strong><br>
74  St Brelade’s Parish Church<br>
75  <i>Advent Carol Service</i>
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79  <strong>Sunday 6 December at 6pm</strong><br>
80  St Martin’s Parish Church<br>
81  <i>Nine Lessons & Carols</i>
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102        <h1 class="content-subhead">About Us</h1>
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109            <p class="post-meta">A mixed choir of around 30 voices that was formed specifically to sing church music</p>
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113            <p><strong>Cantabile</strong> is a friendly SATB chamber choir specializing in performing the finest church music from the Renaissance to the present day. Regularly invited to sing Choral Evensongs, concerts and special services in the many beautiful churches in Jersey, we have also sung in English cathedrals (most recently Leicester in 2018 and Salisbury in 2022). In recent years the choir has sung regularly in Normandy & Brittany - in Coutances Cathedral and churches in Agon-Coutainville, Gratot & Virey in Normandy, and in Eglise St. Méen in Cancale, Brittany. The choir also occasionally sings for civic services, services of Confirmation and Ordination; for weddings and memorial services and also for corporate and private events.</p>
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115            <p>Our musical director, Graham Caldbeck, is one of the UK’s leading conductors of amateur choirs and brings a wealth of practical experience as a singer, conductor and teacher to our rehearsals. The choir meets on a Tuesday evening in St. Martin’s Parish Church between 7.30pm and 9.00pm. You are most welcome to attend a rehearsal on a trial basis and to sample the opportunity to improve your vocal and musical skills in a thoroughly enjoyable way.</p>
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117Between September 2024 and September 2025 the choir has sung on 9 occasions – in 6 Jersey churches and 6 parishes, plus an <i>al fresco</i> wedding performance in St. John. The services sung include an Advent Carol Service; a Nine Lessons & Carols service; 4 Choral Evensongs; a Compline service and a Memorial service.</p>
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119            <p>During the past year the choir has sung 43 works, spanning the 14<sup>th</sup>-century to the present day by 33 composers in addition to singing psalms, plainsong and many hymns and descants. If you have enjoyed singing in a church or university choir in the past, or wish to sing this wonderful choral repertoire, you’ll find us welcoming and stimulating company.</p>
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121            <p>If you would like to receive the choir’s newsletter please sign up using the nearby link on this page, and if you are interested in joining us or booking us, please contact our Chairman Fred Benest on 863826.</p>
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129        <h1 class="content-subhead">Director Of Music</h1>
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132            <h2 class="post-title">Graham Caldbeck</h2>
133            <p class="post-meta">Graham is also Director of Music at St Clement's Church.</p>
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136            <p><img class="pure-img post-images" alt="Graham Caldbeck"  src="/assets/images/graham-caldbeck-small.jpg" srcset="/assets/images/graham-caldbeck-medium.jpg 800w, /assets/images/graham-caldbeck-large.jpg 1600w">Graham Caldbeck is one of Britain's leading conductors of amateur choirs. He studied music at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Choral Scholar, and has sung with the Cathedral Choirs of Guildford and Winchester. He holds both the Fellowship and Choir Training diplomas of the Royal College of Organists, is a former Assistant Organist at St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Director of Music at St Mary The Boltons in Chelsea. After initially working in schools in Cheshire and London, he headed the Hampshire Specialist Music Course before moving to the Royal College of Music. There he was Head of Undergraduate Studies and subsequently Head of Individual Studies between 1989-2004, and also conducted the RCM Chorus and Chamber Choir. For five years he was an External Examiner at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.</p>
137            <p>Graham was founder-conductor of the Winchester-based chamber choir Southern Voices in 1984 and directed it until 1999, appearing in the Southern Cathedrals’ Festival and also preparing concerts and recordings conducted by Richard Hickox (winning a Grammy for their 1993 Delius recording) and David Hill. Graham conducted the Somerset Chamber Choir between 1990-2017, working with many of the UK's most talented instrumentalists and soloists. Between 1996-2012 he conducted the Nonsuch Singers, a well-known central London chamber choir, and directed the Mayfield Festival Choir in East Sussex between 2005-2012. He is now conductor of the recently-founded chamber choir, Somerset Voices.</p>
138            <p>His concerts have regularly been highlighted in the national press and broadcast on TV and radio, both in the UK and the USA, and he has worked with many of the UK's leading composers. He has conducted choirs for services in many UK cathedrals, including St. Paul's, Winchester, Salisbury, Wells, Truro, Hereford, Worcester, Brecon, Leicester, Ripon and York Minster.</p>
139            <p>Graham now pursues a freelance career as conductor, organist, vocal coach and teacher. In 1992, 1994 and 1996, he conducted the Jersey Festival Choir as guest conductor with an RCM Orchestra. He moved to Jersey in September 2012 and was Director of Music at St Clement's Church between 2013-2025.</p>
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149            <h2 class="post-title">The History of Evensong</h2>
150            <p class="post-meta">It remains a living part of the Anglican tradition</p>
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153jpg" srcset="/assets/images/canterbury-cathedral-medium.jpg 820w">From the earliest days of the Church of England until the 1960s Sunday worship consisted mainly of Morning Prayer (or <em>Mattins</em>) and Evening Prayer (or <em>Evensong</em>). Holy Communion was only celebrated three or four times a year (which explains why you will find it somewhere in the middle of the Book of Common Prayer and not at the beginning). It was the Parish and People Movement (later to become the Parish Communion Movement), formed in 1949, that began the shift away from Mattins and Evensong towards weekly communion.</p>
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