The Parish Church of St John-at-Hampstead

Our Music

ALTO VACANCY

The Parish Church of St-John-at-Hampstead wishes to appoint an alto with relevant skills and experience to sing at the weekly Holy Communion and Evensong on Sundays, and for other major liturgical festivals, starting on Sunday 7 September. The fees currently range from £82.50 per service to a ‘specials’ rate of £125. There is no minimum attendance requirement, and suitable deputies are booked using an approved deputy list as far as possible. The choir comprises 4 or 5 singers at the Communion service and 8 at Evensong.

The current choir membership is S: Christine Buras, Olivia Hugh-Jones, A: Rebekah Nießer-Jones, Jessica Gillingwater; T: Aidan Coburn, Ruairi Bowen; B: James Geidt, Eoghan Desmond.

The current music list may be viewed here.

Applications

If you would like to audition, please send your CV and links to recordings (if available) to the Director of Music, Dr Geoffrey Webber, at [email protected] as soon as possible, and no later than Friday 26 June. Auditions will be held on Sunday afternoons during June and July.

Audition requirements

Please bring two contrasted pieces to sing, from any era or genre.

There will be two passages of sight-reading, one from pre-1700 and one from post-1950.

Geoffrey Webber

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Music is an important part of our worship at Hampstead Parish Church. Many of our services are enriched by fine and varied music from the Anglican cathedral tradition and beyond, including music by formerly under-represented groups.

An excellent fully-professional mixed-voice Choir sings at the 10.30 am Holy Communion Service and 5 pm Evensong each Sunday and at special times during the Church’s year. There is also a Junior Choir of boys and girls from the parish which takes part in the 10.30 am Holy Communion Service and sings Evensong on certain Thursdays at 6.30 pm during term time. 

Hampstead Parish Church has a notable Henry Willis Organ of 1884, and also a modern Grotrian Steinweg grand piano. The building has good acoustics, particularly well suited to the performance of choral and chamber music; it is regularly used for concerts by chamber musicians, orchestras and choral groups as well as for our own musical events.

The musical tradition at Hampstead has a distinguished History. The church’s choir and musicians are currently funded by the Parochial Church Council and the Hampstead Church Music Trust, with the support of the Friends of the Music who arrange an annual fund-raising programme of musical and social events.

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