The Zemel Choir’s Past Performances 

Concert at Harrow Arts Centre on the 31st January was called

Hallelujah – Songs of Praise and Joy-Attendance nearly 300 people

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promoted by Spiro Ark

What is in a word? In the case of one, famous word – Hallelujah– we can hear the expression of praise, joy and happiness, and it is no surprise that it has been used by composers, both Jewish and non-Jewish, for many centuries. Using this word as an inspiration, the Zemel Choir presents an eclectic concert focussed on the expression of joy in music. That one word – Hallelujah– appears in works by both Jewish and non-Jewish composers, including Lewandowski, Bruckner, Boyce and Monteverdi, while the choir will also perform settings of psalms of praise by Palestrina, Freed, Carlbach and Sulzer. Praise for the land of Israel is heard in works by Copland and others, while we will also perform some old favourites by Machtenberg, Zilberts and Kurt Weill. You can also hear boisterous settings of folk-songs and Yiddish theatre tunes, and a choral setting of a well known song by Leonard Cohen. An opportunity to savour music from different ages and environments, and to hear some uplifting music, Jewish-style.

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Concert at Belsize Square

The Zemel Choir had a “full house” on 8th November  at a memorable concert called Shir L’Shabbat where we performed a selection of serious and light hearted liturgical music in celebration of Shabbat

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. There was also a superb performance of close harmony and quartet music by bOYbershop. You can read a very interesting review of this concert here, written by Malcolm Miller 

The repertoire included a specially-compiled Sacred Service with music by

Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Bloch, Weill, Schalit and others…

and was conducted by Benjamin Wolf, with organist Michael Cayton

with soloists Marc Finer, Eliot Alderman and Benjamin Cahn

…and settings of Adon Olam spanning four hundred years

“Just a quick note to say thanks for a marvellous concert last night. I could listen to Adon Olam all night so I loved it - in fact I’d be happy to hear the whole thing again. And thanks for limiting the applause, which can slow it down, especially when there are so many pieces and ensuring that it ended reasonably early .I persuaded my husband to come for the first time in many years - and he enjoyed it so it looks like you’ve got another supporter”

Celebrate With Song 2009

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The Zemel Choir along with members of the City of London Choir performing the Chichester Psalms

Zemel Flyer for 2009 Celebrate With Song

Israel Concert Tour, 15th to 22nd March 2009 -Ra’anana, Karmiel, Rishon-le-Tzion

Under our Musical Director Benjamin Wolf and with cantor Robert Brody, we sang synagogue music by 19th century composers Lewandowski and Sulzer, works by Israeli composers such as Gil Aldema and Yehezkel Braun, American music by Copland and Tom Lehrer, liturgical and folk music by British composers, and lighter numbers by John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Burt Bacharach. To see the media coverage generated around the Tour click here.

Sunday 9 November, 2008 - ENTENTE CORDIALE with the Polyphonies Hébraïques de Strasbourg

Belsize Square Synagogue, London

Sunday 6 July 2008 Charity Concert in aid of the Gidon Posner Memorial Fund

West London Synagogue-Special performances by The Zemel Choir and the Galron choir from Kfar Saba, Israel.

Sunday 15th June 2008 ‘Celebrate With Song’-10 Centuries of Jewish Choral Music

St. John’s Smith Square-A mass celebration of mixed-voice Jewish choral music, For media coverage click here

Wednesday 7 May 2008-A Selection of Israeli and Liturgical Music’

Celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut at Edgware and District Reform Synagogue

25th November 2007-Concert in Bournemouth.

Sunday 11th November 2007 -‘Liturgy to Latkes, A Choral Extravaganza’

Belsize Square Synagogue

Sunday 21st October 2007-‘Jewish Songs of Harmony and Reflection’

Victoria and Albert Museum

Sunday, 17th June 2007’ Celebrate with Song’

St John’s, Smith Square-for media coverage click here

Tuesday 17th April Concert In Strasbourg, France

Sunday 18th March, 2007 ‘Celebrating Forty Fabulous Years by Ann Sadan’

Edgware and District Reform Synagogue

Sunday 26th November, 2006 ‘A concert featuring music for Chanukah, sung in Hebrew, Ladino and English’

Victoria and Albert Museum

Sunday 26 November 2006 ‘A new shofar fanfare to celebrate 350 years of British Jewish music’

Royal Festival Hall, Purcell Room-Special performance of “King Ahaz” by Alman

Sunday 12th November, 2006 ‘Cantors and Choristers’

Belsize Square Synagogue

Sunday July 2, 2006 ‘An Evening of Jewish Music’

Belsize Square Synagogue

Sunday June 18, 2006, Sternberg Centre, Finchley

Sunday March 5, 2006

Kenton Synagogue

Sunday 27th November, 2005

Victoria and Albert Museum.

Sunday 20th November, 2005 ‘50th Anniversary Concert’

St John’s, Smith Square

Sunday 10th July, 2005 ‘Festival of Jewish Choirs’

South Bank Centre

Sunday 5th June, 7.30pm, 2005 ‘A concert for Yom Yerushalayim’

Wimbledon & District Synagogue

Sunday 27th February, 2005

Nottingham Hebrew Congregation

Sunday 23rd January, 2005 BBC Songs of Praise

Special broadcast as part of the annual Holocaust Day commemorations.

2004-Norma Roth Memorial Concert Sunday 13th June at EDRS

2004  Royal Festival Hall