Event: Speaker Dinner with David Chin
Date: 18th October, 2018 (Thursday)
Time: 7:15pm
Location: The Hong Kong Bankers Club, The Landmark, Central, Hong Kong
Cost: Member $850 / Guest $950 (Four-course dinner with drinks)
Dress code: Business attire
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The Choir of Merton College - Oxford University
O Holy Night Music for Christmas
''one of UK's finest choral ensembles" Gramophone
"outstanding" Guardian
4th Dec Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore
6th Dec Sheung Wan Civic Centre Theatre, Hong Kong
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Biography of the Choir
The Choir of Merton College is one of Oxford’s leading mixed-voice choirs and sings the liturgies, during term-time, in the thirteenth century chapel. The thirty undergraduates and postgraduates read a number of different subjects and are ordinarily members of Merton College. Outside term, the choir tours regularly, most recently visiting Sweden, France and the USA. Performances in 2016 included Mozart’s Requiem in Toulouse, and engagements at Washington National Cathedral and St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York and in 2017 the choir sang the first ever Anglican Service in St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Recent concert performances in the UK have included Duruflé’s Requiem in Gloucester Cathedral as part of the Cheltenham Music Festival, Tallis's Spem in alium in Cambridge, Oxford and London, and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius in The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. The choir regularly appears in London at St John’s, Smith Square, The Cadogan Hall and The Temple Church.
Described by Gramophone as "one of the UK's finest choral ensembles", the choir’s recordings are on the Delphian label and have been widely acclaimed. The first release in 2011 was named 'Gramophone Editor’s Choice' and the most recent disc was a 2016 ‘Gramophone Critics’ Choice’. The choir regularly broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 live from Merton College Chapel, and in 2013 was featured in the BBC series Music & the Monarchy.
Merton College Choir has demonstrated a strong commitment to contemporary music, and has held a new music partnership with Choir & Organ magazine and has collaborated with the Royal Philharmonic Society as part of its ‘Encore’ scheme. The choir has recently premiered new works from Birtwistle, Chilcott, Dove, MacMillan, Tabakova, Tavener and Weir and in April 2014 gave the world premiere performances of Gabriel Jackson’s Passion in Oxford and New York.