Introducing Coro Nuovo
Passionate about Music!
Coro Nuovo is an exciting new choir made up of the very best singers from Mid Sussex and surrounding area many of whom are professional musicians. The choir aims to explore a wide repertoire of music from Renaissance to Contemporary and is designed to be challenging, to help singers learn and develop.
We aim to perform up to three concerts per year (Christmas, Spring and Summer) and we hold about 4 rehearsals for each concert. Our Music Director is Andrew Rees international tenor, who provides us with a focus on delivering quality and subtlety across a broad range of music. A feature which makes us different is “singing in the round” at the start of every concert which enables us to connect us with our audience as well as providing a touch of theatre. Previous Summer concerts have been Opera Night, Best of British, Night at the Movies, Shakespeare 400, Music and Monarchy, American Summertime. In addition we have performed Mozart Requiem, Faure Requiem and (with Mid Sussex Sinfonia) Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
Our outreach programme is to support young Sussex musicians choral or instrumental who are studying music and who are at the beginning of their professional career. We offer an annual bursary worth £1,000 to aid their learning and development and also offer a platform to perform with us at concerts.
2021 Sussex Young Musician of the Year – The Results!
Congratulations to this year’s winner – Jane Burnell (Soprano). Jane won the £1000 Competition prize and will have the opportunity to perform at a future Coro Nuovo concert.
The runner up was Laurence Cuttriss (Clarinet) who won a £500 prize. The other finalists were Maria Luc (Piano) and Nancy Holt (Mezzo Soprano) who each won a £250 prize.
The 2021 competition judge was Sakari Oramo, OBE who is the Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. In the autumn of 2021 Sakari will be conducting the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms which he has been doing since 2014.
The finalists’ performance and the judge’s comments on the Competition and each of the finalists can be viewed on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/1D_r4QNi91I
Once again we are indebted to the Traditional Oak and Timber Company (https://www.tradoak.com) who are the main sponsors for this year’s competition.
Next Concerts & Events
We are all grateful to the NHS Staff and Health and Care workers for looking after the Mid Sussex community during the Coronavirus pandemic. As a ‘Thank You’, Coro Nuovo – the leading Mid Sussex not-for-profit choir – will be performing a fantastic concert on Saturday 20th November 2021 at 7pm. Hurstpierpoint College have kindly provided their New Bury Theatre as the concert venue. The choir, guest singers and musicians will be performing a wide range of music – something for everyone!
NHS Staff and Health and Care workers who are working and/or living in the Mid Sussex are eligible for FREE tickets (2 per person). The free tickets for NHS Staff and Health and Care workers can be booked from the 1st July 2021. The sale of general public tickets is from the 1st September 2021 and any concert profits will go to the local NHS and Mid Sussex charities who are helping those affected by Covid.
Coro Nuovo is particularly grateful to all of the concert sponsors including Mid Sussex District Council who are providing a Covid-19 Recovery Grant for this event.
If you have problems with using this page to buy tickets, try this link instead: https://nhs-celebration-concert.eventbrite.co.uk
Note – the time of this concert is still to be confirmed.
Note – the time of this concert is still to be confirmed.
Carmina Burana by Carl Orff
This concert is a collaboration with Mid Sussex Sinfonia