Join us this Easter to sing The Crucifixion by John Stainer, led by our Choral Director, Andrew Hopwood and accompanied by Julian Elloway.

Tickets are available here (https://bit.ly/ComeSingStainer) priced £20 to include score hire if required (if you would like to bring your own score we will be using the Novello version).

Details for the day
10.00am Registration at The Beacon Hall in The Painswick Centre, tea and coffee.
10.30am Morning rehearsal
11.30am Tea & cake break and short talk by Julian Elloway on ‘The Writing and Publishing of Stainer’s Crucifixion’.
12.00 noon Rehearsal
1.00pm Lunch break in The Beacon Hall
2.00pm Afternoon rehearsal in St. Mary’s Church
3.30pm Tea break
4.00pm Informal performance

Road Closure A46 You may have picked up that the A46 between Stroud and Painswick is closed, so if you’re coming from Stroud, you’ll need to take the diversion. The simplest is as follows: When you reach the fork at Pitchcombe, turn left up the A4173. Continue till you get into Brookthorpe. Turn right at the first mini-roundabout, into Upton Lane. Follow Upton Lane, crossing the M5, following through the new housing development, till you reach the T-junction with the B4703 Painswick road. Turn right, towards Painswick. You’ll come out onto the A46 in the centre of Painswick.

We would recommend bringing a packed lunch, however there are several cafés and pubs nearby as well as a small grocery store.
There’s no specific dress code but do wear plenty of layers!
Toilet facilities are available in the Beacon Hall during the morning. There is a single toilet in the church for use in the afternoon plus public toilets in Stamages Lane car park adjacent to the church.

Entry to the afternoon performance is free with a retiring collection for charity – all welcome.

Directions and parking
There is free parking at Stamages Lane car park (a short level walk through the churchyard & village to the Painswick Centre) or on-street parking. If parking in the village please be considerate of other vehicles, residents and pavement users. (Parking at the Painswick Centre is very limited but if you do park there please can you move your car at lunchtime).

Andrew Hopwood – Conductor

Andrew spent 20 years singing in opera before turning to teaching voice. However, like many of his generation his singing started as a Parish Church choir boy. He participated in Royal School of Church Music courses and it was via the RSCM and its cathedral courses that Andrew was inspired to sing as a career.
In the early days he became a lay clerk and has trained several church choirs. The singing of choral church music combined with his time in opera and now working and coaching singers of musical theatre and even rock music, gives Andrew a wide and deep experience of helping singers get the best out of their voice.

Julian Elloway – Accompanist

Julian Elloway studied piano in Oxford with Lucy Van-Jung Page, at the Guildhall School of Music with Cimbro Martin, and subsequently specialised in piano accompaniment with Paul Hamburger. Julian was also organ scholar at Sussex University. He worked in Brighton as keyboard player, choir conductor and répétiteur, and subsequently moved to Oxfordshire to be Senior Music Editor and Manager of the Music Department at Oxford University Press.

At OUP, he worked with contemporary composers, overseeing their music from composition to publication. He also commissioned new editions of many classic works from the choral society repertoire and worked with scholars on new understandings of composers’ original intentions.

Julian now lives in Minchinhampton, where he works as a freelance musician and editor.