Pinner Music Festival – Pinner Parish Church Choir

Director & Organist – MARTIN SINGLETON

Pinner Parish Church Choir – around which Pinner Music Festival has grown – will delight us in a splendid gathering of anthems. The ‘tops’ of the choir have always been youngsters, unusual now in a parish church. As a result, the Choir’s regular contributions to worship in Pinner and beyond (the photo by Fiona Rich is from a visit to Llandaff Cathedral in 2019), as well as in concerts, has fostered the musical talents and skills of numerous young people over very many years, initially guided by Michael Turvey, and more recently by Martin Singleton.

Their programme includes two anthems by Vaughan Williams, whose 150th Anniversary falls this year, O Taste and See; Let All the World in Every Corner Sing, Handel’s Zadok the Priest, and more. They will also perform the lovely Hymn to St John the Baptist by Russell Pascoe, which was commissioned for them to perform, marking the 700th Anniversary of the Dedication of St John’s, Pinner, and premiered by our vocal consort last year.

After the impressive instrumental and vocal solos given at PMF2021 by younger members of the Choir, we shall – by popular request – hear more such items displaying their musicianship this year.