Welcome to the Serenata site

Serenata was formed in Welwyn Garden City in 1981 as an octet of versatile singers performing complex, challenging, interesting and fulfilling (and/or fun!) choral music written in up to eight separate voice parts.  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, generally unaccompanied but often 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 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 join contact us via one of the above links.

We've produced 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.

At the end of March seven of us went to a Heathrow conference centre for an a cappella day, where we and seven other small/chamber choirs shared some inspirational coaching from a number of past and present Swingle Singers.  The SingaCappella organisation (of which David is part) is planning a similar day for March 7th 2010, this time including in addition a beatboxing coach.  If you're in a group that might be interested contact David through the links above or visit http://www.singacappella.org/ for more details.

Many thanks to all at St Mary's Guilden Morden, where we sang our way through seven centuries of Christmas music with a rood screen behind us as old as our earliest music... what an atmosphere!  We are pleased to have been invited back for Christmas 2010.

Our next concert

in England will be a concert with a French flavour for Hertford Music Club on Sunday April 18th at 3pm.  Go to their website

www.hertfordmusicclub.co.uk/events-concerts-in-hertford-6871.asp?page=6871  for more details.  We're pleased to welcome Geoff Blyth who will be singing with us in place of Colin.

A map and more details will appear in due course.

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Meanwhile we are busy preparing for

Our Cyprus tour

17th-24th February, which is of course very exciting, and also gives us the chance to get away from this (as I write) unbearably dull weather!  We'll be performing in an ancient church, and a presumably not so ancient restaurant, on:

Fri 19: sacred concert 6pm in Ayia Kyriaki Church (St Paul's Pillar) in Paphos  http://www.paphosanglicanchurch.org.cy/our_churches.html   and

Sun 21: lighter concert at lunchtime at Hill View Restaurant Pissouri  http://www.hillview.com.cy/default.aspx?articleID=17461&heading=Restaurant

This will sadly be Colin's last concert with us - quite a setting!

Posters with full details are available here - a surprising number of people seem to know someone in Cyprus - so do tell them all about it.

And the church for the 19th Feb concert looks like this - wonderful!

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

For photos and other things click here

Serenata singers only - click here