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.

After a smoked salmon supper at St. Peter's Grange Park we enjoyed performing to nearly 100 in the audience and received many appreciative comments - we look forward to returning!

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.  It was a very interesting day, ending with a couple of numbers from each group, and was a sort of launch of a new support organisation for all things a cappella.  Visit http://www.singacappella.org/ for more details and see photos by one of the guests (not David's - he's still working on his and they'll be put up on Flickr as soon as possible) on http://www.flickr.com/photos/30033632@N05/sets/72157616080645649/show/  One other upshot was that David received an invitation to join the steering committee so there might be more about this in the months to come...

Our next concert

takes us again to All Saints, East Finchley, on June 27th.  This will be a Buffet Supper Recital, entitled

The format of concert followed by supper will be the same as our last appearance there in February last year.  A map and more details are here and a poster in pdf form here or in Word form here.

And the food last year was gorgeous!

For future concerts, other events and a gradually growing 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