Sing We At Pleasure

Saturday 21 June at 7.30 pm
All Saints Weston, Esher, KT10 8JL

Sensuous Madrigals and Playful Partsongs

Join us as we celebrate the joy of singing together. Through a programme of madrigals and partsongs by Monteverdi, John Dowland, and Barbara Strozzi, we cover a rich tapestry of emotional narratives, offering vivid expressions of love, longing, and divine inspiration.

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Recruitment flyer

We’re recruiting

Do you want to sing in an adventurous chamber choir with friendly, like-minded individuals, under the direction of top-class choral conductor?

We welcome enquiries from experienced choral singers of all voice parts who enjoy singing in a smaller choir.

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The Ripieno Choir June 2023

Choral Scholarship

The Ripieno Choir are delighted to announce the launch of a new Choral Scholarship scheme, designed to foster a love of choral singing in ambitious young singers. The scholarship is open to applications from young (aged 18-30) tenors, baritones and bass singers who aspire to be a professional musician. The scholar will join The Ripieno Choir for a year, for which they will receive a stipend of £1,200. Read more

Applications due by 6th July

Patrick Allies

Our conductor

Patrick Allies has been the Ripieno Choir’s director of music since April 2023. He studied music at King’s College, London, followed by postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge.

He is now a conductor and musicologist based in London, artistic director of the vocal ensemble Siglo de Oro, and is researching fifteenth-century choirs and their performance spaces for a doctorate from the University of Oxford.

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