ALL SAINT'S CHURCH, Mill Street, MAIDSTONE ME15 6YE - 7pm Wednesday 6th December 2023
Come and listen to Vox Cantium Choir
conducted by Martin Bruce
singing a joyful selection of
Christmas Carols and Songs
Free Entry!!
Bar refreshments from 6:30pm
Retiring Donations to the HEART OF KENT HOSPICE
REMEMBER THE BURGUNDY TOUR
April 2019 - CLICK HERE!
Performed in memory of Peter Brice
Vox Cantium’s late Director of Music
Peter, a choral exhibitioner from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, started a choir
in 1995 for a Christmas concert in aid of the Weald of Kent Hospice at Leeds Church, near
Maidstone.
This evolved into a very popular annual Christmas Concert, now in its 27th year,
which has raised over £90,000 for the Hospice.
Vox Cantium
"Vox Cantium" means the "voice of Cantium", referring to Celtic people who lived
in Cantium,
the area we now call Kent. Today Vox Cantium consists of 20 voices
singing music from the
early Renaissance period (typically Allegri, Byrd, Tallis, de Lassus,
Victoria, Gibbons) through
later composers (Purcell, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov)
to the present day (Esenvalds, Tavener, Hawes).
Julius Caesar remarked:
Of all the Britons, the inhabitants of Cantium, an entirely maritime district,
are by far the
most civilised, differing but little from the Gallic manner of life.