Cole directs Pimlico schools in a fun Summer singing day themed on literacy and stories.

An American Tapestry explores the breadth of American choral music, from spirituals and modern classics to bold experimental voices. Moving between stillness and energy, intimacy and scale, Holmbury Choral weaves together works by Bernstein, Whitacre, Shaw, Reich and others in a vivid Summer concert, tracing themes of nature, silence, and belonging.

Rosephanye Powell – The Word Was God
Eleanor Daley - Erosion
B. E. Boykin – Music of Life
Caroline Shaw – and the swallow
Undine Smith Moore – Daniel, Daniel, Servant of the Lord
Steve Reich – Clapping Music
Nico Muhly – Warm Summer Sun
Pauline Oliveros – Tuning Meditation
John Cage – 4’33
Elaine Hagenberg - The Music of Stillness
Simon/Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence (arr. Mac Huff)
Eric Whitacre – Child of Wonder (from The Sacred Veil)
Leonard Bernstein – Somewhere (arr. Mac Huff)
Stephen Paulus – The Road Home
Spiritual arr.Reginald Unterseher - Wayfarin’ Stranger

Cole Bendall (conductor)
Suzy Ruffles (piano)

Cole conducts New Dublin Voices in an end-of-masterclass concert, mentored by Yuval Weinberg (Norse Solistkor, Rundfunkchor Berlin). Repertoire TBA.

Workshop with Woking Choral, Reigate & Redhill Choral and guests on Elgar The Dream of Gerontius - open to public.

Cole Bendall (conductor)
Carris Jones (vocal coach/mezzo-soprano)
TBA (pianist)

Cole debuts with London Mozart Players in a performance of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, combining the forces of nearly 200 singers in Guildford’s G Live.

Woking Choral Society
Reigate & Redhill Choral Society
Chantry Singers
Octavian Singers
London Mozart Players
Judy Louie Brown (mezzo)
Dominic Bevan (tenor)
Ross Cumming (bass)
Cole Bendall (conductor)

Repertoire TBA.

Cole Bendall makes his debut with Southampton Philharmonic Choir and Oxford Bach Soloists in a programme celebrating the old and highlighting the new.

Handel Coronation Anthems
Roth A Time To Dance

Soloists to be announced
Oxford Bach Soloists
Southampton Philharmonic Choir
Cole Bendall (conductor)

Southampton Philharmonic Choir and Cole Bendall make a long awaited return to Winchester Cathedral celebrating French music, with the stirring and vibrant Poulenc Gloria matched with the celebration and drive of the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony. Featuring the brilliant Orpheus Sinfonia; rising star soprano, Hannah Dienes-Williams; and Katherine Dienes-Williams, recently announced as the new Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral.

Boulanger Psalm 24
Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine
Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 “Organ”
Poulenc Gloria

Hannah Dienes-Williams (soprano)
Katherine Dienes-Williams (organ)
Orpheus Sinfonia
Southampton Philharmonic Choir
Cole Bendall (conductor)

Cole Bendall conducts Reigate & Redhill Choral Society in their Spring Concert.

Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem

Orchestra TBA
Soloists TBA
Cole Bendall (conductor)

Southampton Philharmonic Choir and Cole Bendall conclude their first season with a visit to Romsey Abbey, undertaking a celebration of English cathedral music.

Parry I was glad
Stanford Three Motets, Op. 38
Panufnik Love Bade Me Welcome
MacMillan O Radiant Dawn
Ireland Greater Love
Howells Te Deum (Collegium Regale)
Byrd Excerpts from Mass for Four Voices
Weir Two Human Hymns
Tavener Funeral Ikos
Bainton And I saw a new heaven
Parry Blest Pair of Sirens

Southampton Philharmonic Choir
Adrian Taylor (organ)
Cole Bendall (conductor)