SPRING CONCERT 2026

Saturday 28th March 2026

7pm, Greenock Town Hall

 

Britten - Saint Nicolas

Vivaldi – Gloria

 

Tickets available through Choir members or via TicketSource (£15, under 18s & students free). Alternatively contact 07847 250 529 or email info@greenockphilharmonic.co.uk

 

Led by Nicholas Wilks and featuring Glasgow Chamber Orchestra, VOISS singers, gallery choir, piano duet, organ and percussion.

 

After a successful year, Greenock Philharmonic, led by Musical Director Nicholas Wilks, are setting out to look at new ways of developing the choir and our place in the community. With this in mind, we are joining forces with young singers from Inverclyde for our Easter concert, which will programme Britten’s Saint Nicolas alongside Vivaldi’s Gloria.

 

We are delighted that we will be joined by Voices of Inverclyde Senior Schools under Polly Beck and singers from St Mary’s Primary School. Our soloist for St Nicolas will be the Greenock tenor, Euan McDonald, and the soloists for the Vivaldi will be Polly Beck and Elysia Wilson.

 

We are especially pleased that Hebba, our weekly accompanist, and her colleague Chris Baxter will be playing the piano duet, and that Chris Nickol will be playing the Greenock Town Hall organ.

 

This concert will honour the important legacies of Agnes Park and Alistair Massey, two significant and forward-looking Greenock musicians. Both works were written for young people, albeit centuries apart and in very different circumstances.

 

Written for schools in Sussex to mark the centenary of Lancing College, Britten’s St Nicolas ingeniously combines organ, piano duet, strings, percussion, a gallery choir of young voices, treble soloists, tenor solo and chorus.

 

Vivaldi’s Gloria was written for the Ospedale della Pietà, a convent, orphanage, and music school in 18th century Venice, renowned for superlative performances by its teenage pupils.