On Sunday 1 July at 7.30pm, The Stockton Chorale are performing their third Ireland/UK concert tour in the Old High Church, Church Street, Inverness. This famous and well travelled choir has grown to more than 100 singers from the Central Valley of California and the Sierra Foothills. They regularly perform a varied repertoire consisting of both sacred and secular music. The choir also serves as the chorus for the Stockton Symphony Orchestra, recently performing Beethoven’s Ninth, Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast and Orff’s Carmina Burana.

The choir’s concert in Inverness will include:- Kyrie from Schubert’s mass in G major; Mari’s Wedding – arr Roberton; Haydn’s Te Deum in C; Loch Lomond; Red, Red Rose; Old Time Religion & The Battle of Jericho; Bile the Cabbage Down; Cindy; and O My Darling Clementine.

The conductor and musical director of The Stockton Chorale since 1999 is Dr Edward Cetto. He is also director of choral activities at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music. He adjudicates at the national convention of the American Choral Directors’ Association and leads regional honour choirs.

This is the sixth concert of Highland 2007 arranged by Rena Beaton, organist and choirmaster of the Old High Church to help raise funds towards the £150,000 refurbishment and reinstatement of the historic Willis organ.

The next in the series of the Old High Church concerts is by Music Fyne/Coronach to be held in the church hall on Friday 7 September 2007.

For further information telephone 01463 220802 or email: lenwjohnson@tiscali.co.uk