Welcome to Serenata!

Hertfordshire-based Serenata has been entertaining audiences locally, nationally and in Europe for 30 years.  We are an a cappella octet of versatile singers performing  vocal/choral music which is complex and challenging, fulfilling and fun, and written in up to eight separate voice parts in all imaginable styles.  Over the years we have performed a wide variety of music - sacred or secular - from all eras, in a wide variety of private or public venues, including foreign tours (last year we went to Cyprus), usually unaccompanied but on some occasions sharing concerts with instruments. 

If you have a function/event/fundraiser with which you feel our choir (small in size but large of sound!) could help do contact David Robertson on 01707 325735 or via the links below.

On this site you should be able to find all forthcoming concert details, together with "items of historical interest" and you can hear some of our performances. 

We are dependent on concert organisers for some of the arrangement details - these are put on the site as soon as they are available.

Any queries, whether about this site or Serenata activities, please email enquiries@serenatavoices.org.uk or click here.

We have an emailing list for notification of our concerts.  If you would like to be on the list contact us via one of the above links.

We have a cd, based on live performances of music "on the lighter side" performed during 2005 and 2006, as a sort of demo disc - if you would like a copy get in touch, whether you might be wanting us to perform for you or simply wanting to give a small present.

We are affiliated to SingaCappella! which aims to serve and inspire the UK a cappella community involved in performing contemporary unaccompanied vocal music, whatever their style.  For more details visit http://www.singacappella.org

We greatly enjoyed performing for our friends at Grange Park as usual.  And the male half of Serenata sang for their supper at Digswell - an aspect of Serenata which we may well develop - there's a lot of a cappella male voice music which isn't barber-shop!  And it's great fun...

Our next full public concert is at St. Mary, Stapleford on November 12th at 7.30pm.  

Based on our Grange Park concert, it will be a wide range of music, from the 16th to the 20th century, with the lighter side of our repertoire balanced by more serious and atmospheric music - a loosely base theme of seasons, as befits the season, from early French and English songs to romantic yearnings, popular songs, farmyard frolics, lashings of honey and a sprinkling of sugar...  with composers from Victoria to Elgar, Mendelssohn to Whitacre (an amazing setting of "Go lovely rose" by this latest phenomenon on the a cappella scene), some music for advent, and, on the lighter side, a wide range of folk, pop and humorous songs, including Honey Pie, Sugar Sugar, some craziness about bananas and chick chick chickens...  and, of course, Blue Skies, as the concert is raising funds for the Herts Air Ambulance.

Their usual excellent refreshments will be served during the interval.  Tickets are £7 or £8, based on seating positions, and we must stress that all seats are numbered and comfortable!  For more details contact us or the organisers on 01992 500422.   For the poster see here  and for maps see here (both will download or open as a pdf) - the church is set back from the road, on the right as you go north from Hertford, postcode SG14 3NB. 
 

For a small collection of a cappella sound samples from our repertoire, based on the cd mentioned above, click here

For photos and other bits and pieces, including a growing history of Welwyn Garden City a cappella music, click here

Serenata singers only - click here