Pimlico Musical Foundation are excited to be featuring at a brand new event at Battersea Park Children’s Zoo. This will be a festive evening with the chance to watch our Children’s Choir sing.

Alongside the ticket is exclusive access to the zoo after dark, and the chance to see their array of animals.

📅 Friday 13th December 2024

⏰ 5.30pm

The Children’s Choir will be performing from 6pm - 6.30pm

📍 Battersea Park Children’s Zoo, London SW11 4NJ

🎟 Ticketed event

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Come & Sing at the Street Party

🎉 PMF are back for a new academic year!

On Saturday 14th September, we’re providing music across Westminster City Council’s ‘Community Meet & Eat’ – an all-day street party celebrating Pimlico residents of all ages.

Come & Sing: Join us at 5 PM on Churchill Gardens Road for an energetic sing-along session with a live band. We’ll be performing pop hits, both old and new, and everyone is welcome to join in—no sign-up required!

Food & Drink: Enjoy delicious food and beverages available from 12 PM and throughout the day, ensuring you’re fueled up and ready to enjoy the festivities.

The whole event is open to the public. Just show up with your singing voice and enthusiasm for a day filled with community spirit.

We can’t wait to see you there!

Show Tunes in the Square
as part of South West Fest 2024

Soak up the sun with a spectacular evening of film music and show tunes for the south Westminster community, accompanied by full orchestra and performed by talented children from local schools. For this special South West Fest performance, PMF are joined by the London City Orchestra, an amazing ensemble who will provide lush accompaniment to some iconic show tunes and film music. Think Disney, Superman, Jurassic Park and much, much more.

Saturday 6 July | 17:30 - 18:30 | St George’s Square Gardens, SW1V 3QU

Please note, this performance is free and no tickets are required.

The Most Beautiful Sound

The Pimlico Musical Foundation’s Spring 2024 Concert.

An evening of iconic music, featuring highlights from West Side Story and Mozart’s Requiem performed by 200 singers from across the Pimlico community.

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A Service of Nine Lessons and Carols

Join us for an evening for a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols with the Foundation Scholars, Teacher-Singers and friends from Westminster Cathedral Choir School.

📅 Tuesday 12th December 2023

⏰ 19:00 - 20:00

📍 St Gabriel's Church, Warwick Square, Pimlico SW1V 2AD

🎟 Tickets are not required, but you may reserve them here

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Mendelssohn’s Elijah

Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah oratorio is a powerful musical masterpiece that weaves together storytelling from the Old Testament to create a deeply striking experience for audiences.

Drawing inspiration from biblical narratives from the Old Testament, this work showcases the dramatic tale of the prophet Elijah, capturing the essence of human struggle, triumph, and redemption through richly orchestrated melodies and captivating choral arrangements.

Our performance brings together two of PMF’s key programmes, the Foundation Choir (comprised of Foundation Scholars and Teacher-Singers) and the Pimlico Chorus.

Elijah | Dan D’Souza
Orchestra | Southbank Sinfonia
Conductor | James Day

St Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico

Introduction | As God the Lord of Israel liveth
Overture
Chorus | Help, Lord!
Duet with Choir | Lord! bow thine ear to our prayer!
Aria | If with all your hearts
Chorus | Yet doth the Lord see it not
Recitative with Choir | As God the Lord of Sabbath liveth
Chorus | Baal, we cry to thee; hear and answer us
Recitative with Choir | Call him louder, for he is a god!
Recitative with Choir | Call him louder! he hearth not!
Aria | Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel!
Quartet | Cast thy burden upon the Lord
Recitative with Choir | O thou, who makes thine angels spirits (The fire descends)
Recitative with Choir | O man of God, help thy people!
Chorus | Thanks be to God

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Between Tuesday November 28th and Tuesday December 5th, every donation you give to PMF is DOUBLED!

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Our original community production of Noye’s Fludde (2023)

On 5th July 2023, two hundred young performers and four hundred audience packed out St Gabriel’s, Pimlico for our original production of Benjamin Britten’s community opera. The performance followed six weeks of educational workshops in five of our partner schools using the story as a tool for teaching about climate change, rewriting traditional hymn texts and unleashing the creativity of the Pimlico community.

After being tipped off that a flood is coming, Noye (played by Gareth Brynmor John) enlists the help of the Pimlico community to help build a boat big enough to survive. This summer, the Pimlico Musical Foundation launches its most ambitious project yet, bringing together hundreds of local schoolchildren, teachers, volunteers, and professional musicians to transform St Gabriel’s, Pimlico into the world of Noye’s Fludde.

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Haydn’s Creation

The Southbank Sinfonia, our Foundation Scholars, the Pimlico Chorus and our Teacher-Singer soloists join forces for a very special performance of Haydn’s ‘The Creation’.

Composed by Joseph Haydn in 1798, ‘The Creation’ tells the story of the creation of the world as described in the Book of Genesis and John Milton's ‘Paradise Lost’. The evening will be a celebration of the Pimlico community and an opportunity for our participants to join together and celebrate their progress.

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A Service of Nine Lessons and Carols

Join us for an evening for a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols with Pimlico Foundation Scholars and Teacher-Singers and Inner Voices

📅 Tuesday 13th December 2022

⏰ 19:00 - 20:00

📍 St Gabriel's Church, Warwick Square, Pimlico SW1V 2AD

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Earth, Sun and the Stars

Join us for PMF's spectacular winter concert Earth, Sun and the Stars joined with over 200 performers and professional musicians singing a selection of winter choral favourites including Schutz’ Magnificat, Essenvalds’ Stars, LaBarr’s The Wisdom of the Moon and others.

Featuring Foundation Scholars, Pimlico Chorus, Pimlico Children's Choir and local schools.

📅 Wednesday 30th November

🕰  7:00pm | doors open 6:40pm

📍  St Gabriel's Church, Warwick Square SW1V 2AD

🎫  £8 Adults | £5 Children

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Everyday Wonders: The Girl from Aleppo

By Cecilia McDowall with James Day, The Foundation Scholars Choir, Adult Choir.

Join us for an extraordinary evening hearing the Pimlico Musical Foundation Adult Choir, joined with the Foundation Scholars and Children’s Choir sing Cecilia McDowall’s Everyday Wonders: The Girl from Aleppo. We will also be joined by esteemed Syrian musicians. More details to be released soon.

The evening will be full of Syrian themed food and drinks, followed by a concert of approximately 1 hour.

About the piece

Everyday Wonders: The Girl from Aleppo tells the extraordinary story of Nujeen Mustafa, a Kurdish teenager with cerebral palsy forced by war to flee her home and embark on an arduous journey to Europe with her sister. In this five-movement cantata Nujeen’s story – recounted in her biography ‘The Girl from Aleppo’ (co-authored by Christina Lamb) – is retold by Kevin Crossley-Holland and richly scored by Cecilia McDowall. A wealth of musical effects are employed to capture the narrative, including chorales, rhythmic spoken sections, body percussion, and a solo violin part infused with Middle Eastern flavours. The prevailing mood of Nujeen’s story is embodied by the final line of a chorale that bookends this unique concert work: ‘singing the song of life itself.’

Reviews:
‘Cecilia McDowall has won a reputation as a leading composer of choral music and her extensive catalogue contains many distinguished examples.  The emotional heft of this story has clearly inspired her to produce one of her most striking scores for the medium.’
Tempo

‘McDowall has long had a special gift for choral writing, and here she resourcefully combines upper voices with an SATB chorus . . . in settings of Kevin Crossley-Holland’s text narrating the journey of two sisters (one pushing the other in a wheelchair) across the miles from Syria to asylum in Germany . . . The music bursts with compassion.’
The Birmingham Post

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