Take a look at our repertoire and collaborations
Our favourite SINGS!
A summer cocktail of spirituals, with a mixer of madrigals, and a feast of folk songs, part songs and modern settings of songs by some much loved composers, ranging from Cole Porter to Fats Waller, Gerald Finzi to Hubert Parry, amongst many others.
Shakespeare in Song Concert
A celebration of some of Shakespeare's greatest words set to music, featuring Daniel Sumner (baritone) as guest soloist. Musical arrangements by composers Bob Chilcott, Matthew Harris, Daniel Hellden, John Rutter and George Shearing. Providing drama, romance, adventure and comedy from many of Shakespeare's plays including from: The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, As you Like it, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labour's Lost, along with several of his sonnets.
Christmas Concert
Celebrating Christmas with a joyful Latin American flavour featuring Navidad Nuestra & Misa Criolla by Argentinian composer Ariel Ramirez along with traditional early Spanish & Latin American villancicos and English Christmas carols.
With David Watkin-Holmes (tenor) and a band of musicians on guitar, violin, double bass, percussion and piano.
Whatever the Weather!
Our summer concert of choral music delivered sunshine, blue skies, rainbows, clouds, wind, rain, fog, ice and snow....everyone brought their sunglasses, raincoat and umbrella! Music included songs by Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Flanders & Swan, Bob Chilcott, John Rutter through to Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Weelkes and more.
A Baltic Odyssey
Journeying around the Baltic visiting music by composers from Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia and Norway, including choral pieces by Esenvalds, Gjeilo, Grieg, Lindberg, Mantyjarvi, Part, Rachmaninov, Reger, Rheinberger and Tormis.
Sounds of Heaven
Sheffield Chorale, Sterndale Singers, Sheffield Chamber Choir and Steel City Choristers joined forces to sing John Tavener's "God is with Us" and a selection of other heavenly choral pieces as part of the Classical Sheffield Festival 2025.
Christmas Concert
Performing with the West Riding Ensemble, Jonathan Gooing (organ) and Peter Taylor (baritone) provided a truly festive feast of Christmas music, including:
Charpentier - Messe de Minuit
Buxtehude - Magnificat and In Dulci Jubilo
Gjeilo - The Rose and much more
Fauré Requiem
To commemorate Remembrance Sunday, we performed Fauré's Requiem, one of the best loved requiem masses. Featuring Jonathan Gooing (Organ), Taylor (Baritone) and Susan Austin (Soprano for Pie Jesu).
Choral Jazz Concert
We were joined by jazz trio Jonathan Gooing (piano), Michael Bardon (double bass) and Nicholas Honeybone (drum kit) in a wonderful concert which included:
George Shearing - Music to Hear by
John Rutter - Birthday Madrigals
Carnival of the Animals
Our summer concert was a delightful and eclectic programme of choral music about animals... and a few birds too! Everything from peacocks to pussy cats and blackbirds to bears, and many more in between!
Music included pieces by Andrew Carter, Aaron Copeland, Flanders and Swan, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Rutter, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Eric Whitacre, Clement Janequin, Orlando Gibbons, John Wilbye and others.
O Vos Omnes
A choral meditation for Passiontide taking us on a journey from Christ's triumphant entry to Jerusalem through to his crucifixion on Good Friday.
The programme featured several settings of the text "O Vos Omnes" (O ye that pass by, attend and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow) as well as one of the finest unaccompanied settings of the Mass ever written - The Mass for Four Voices by William Byrd. Other composers included: Weelkes, Tallis, Victoria, Bruckner, Lassus and Durufle.
Christmas Concert
Our concert featured Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols" in the original version for upper voices with harp accompaniment by Alley York-Bridge.
We were also joined by organist Peter Heginbotham, who accompanied us as we performed a seasonal programme of music both old and new, including:
When thou wast born in wintertime - Lennox Berkeley; A Boy was born - Benjamin Britten; In the bleak midwinter - Harold Darke; There is no Rose - John Joubert; I sing of a maiden - Matthew Martin; Nativity Carol - John Rutter.
Concerts for Remembrance in Swinton & Sheffield
Let Your Spirit Soar
We performed a joint concert with Sheffield Chamber Choir and Sheffield Symphony Orchestra along with organist Jonathan Gooing & soloists Ben Thapa (Tenor), Peter Taylor (Baritone), Daniel Summer (Bass) at which we sang Puccini - Messa di Gloria and Jenkins - The Armed Man.
A Garland of Flowers
Our summer concert included a variety of choral music inspired by nature including pieces by: William Billings, Benjamin Britten, Nils Lindberg, Jakko Mantyjarvi, Hubert Parry, Camille Saint-Saens, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Thomas Wilbye and others.
Classical Sheffield 'Sounds of Heaven'
Sterndale Singers, Sheffield Chamber Choir, Sheffield Chorale and Steel City Choristers performed individually and also joined together to sing John Tavener's masterpiece "God is with Us" in St Marie's Cathedral, as part of the Classical Sheffield Festival.
A Venetian Celebration
Sterndale Singers were joined by an expert Brass Group for a programme of uplifting and joyful early Venetian music for choir, brass and organ, including music by:
Giovanni Gabrieli
Claudio Monteverdi
Heinrich Schutz
Lodovico da Viadana
Christmas Concert
Performing a range of Christmas music both familiar and new, including songs by some well known contemporary choral composers including:
Howard Skempton - Adam lay ybounden
Will Todd - My Lord has come
John Rutter - Candlelight Carol
Cecilia McDowall - A Heavenly Song
Bob Chilcott - Sussex Carol
Music for Stage & Screen
A light-hearted Summer Concert in aid of South Yorkshire Refugee Law and Justice which contained many great songs from the world of Stage and Screen, including: a medley of the best James Bond themes; songs by Cole Porter and Gershwin; the theme song from 'Titanic'; Moon River from 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and many other favourites.
Not the Eurovision Concert
Sterndale Singers performed an imaginative and original alterative to the Eurovision Song Contest, selecting music from 18 of the countries which compete in Eurovision, including for example:
Finland - Mantyjarvi "Double Double Toil and Trouble"
Germany - Brahms "Ach, Arme Welt"
Portugal - Fernandes "Xicochi Xicochi"
Scotland - Trad. "An Eriskay Love Lilt"
Sweden - Lindberg "Shall I compare thee"
Ukraine - Lysenko "Prayer for Ukraine"
Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle
Sterndale Singers and Bel Canto, both conducted by Robert Webb, joined forces to sing the gloriously operatic style Petite Messe Solennelle by Rossini in performance with top class soloists:
Sally Perkins - Alto
David Watkin Holmes - Tenor
Charles Cunliffe - Bass
Philip Collin - Piano
Ruth Milsom - Harmonium
Christmas Concert
Performing a selection of old and new carols and seasonal choral music to celebrate the festive season including:
Lauridsen - O magnum mysterium
Ord - Adam lay y-bounden
Rodney Bennet - What sweeter music
Warlock - Bethlehem Down
Music for All Saints
With Joshua Stephens on Organ, including choral music by:
Durufle - Tu Es Petrus
Brahms - How lovely are thy dwellings
Bainton - And I saw a new heaven
Gabrieli - Angeli, Archangeli
Victoria - O Quam Gloriosum
Fauré Requiem
An emotional first concert post-lockdown for both choir and audience at St Marie's Cathedral Church, performing in memory of those we have lost during the covid pandemic:
Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine
Sterndale Singers with Sheffield Symphony Orchestra
A joint concert with Sheffield Symphony Orchestra featuring:
Bernstein - Chichester Psalms
Lambert - Rio Grande
A Fragile Peace
"A Fragile Peace" 30 years on, recalling the Berlin Wall .
Choral music by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Purcell, Ireland, Bernstein, Jenkins, Poulenc, Part, Bainton among others
Around the World in 80 Minutes
Songs from across the globe following the trail of Phineas Fogg in a cafe-style setting, including music by Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Verdi, Mozart, Sondheim and Lennon & McCartney among others.
Classical Sheffield Weekend
9 March - Sterndale Singers perform William Sterndale Bennett's "The Woman of Samaria" at The Upper Chapel
10 March - four Sheffield chamber choirs - The Abbeydale Singers, Sheffield Chorale, Sheffield Chamber Choir and Sterndale Singers - join together for "Sounds of Heaven" singing a feast of choral music exploring texture, harmony and space at Sheffield Cathedral
Christmas Concert
Telling the Christmas story through music by Poulenc, Mendelssohn, Byrd, Cornelius, Warlock and Lauridsen and traditional carols arranged by Willcocks, Kodaly, Wood, Shaw and Webb
JS Bach "St Matthew Passion"
Sterndale Singers and Sheffield Chamber Choir perform St Matthew Passion with English Touring Opera conducted by Jonathan Peter Kenny
Music for a Summer Evening
Choral music by Tallis, Weelkes, Britten, Poulenc, Tchaikovsky as well as traditional Part Songs, Spirituals and other lighter items
Fun Family Concert
Costumed fun for children and their families, with Sterndale Singers performing Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo and St George and the Dragon
A Venetian Celebration
Sumptuous music for choir and brass including:
Gabrieli - Jubilate Deo
Schutz - Psalm 150
Lotti - Crucifixus a8
Sterndale Singers 40th Anniversary Celebration Concert
A celebratory concert for our 40th anniversary involving both current and many former members of Sterndale Singers. Performing pieces from Sterndale's extensive repertoire from over the years including Tallis' 40-part motet "Spem in Alium" in the round in St Mark's Church, Broomhill
