Upcoming Performances

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Concerts in which Cole Bendall is involved in the 2021-22 season and beyond will be posted here as announced - some are still to be confirmed. Please use the contact form to ask for more information!

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Online Music Making

In light of the current healthcare crisis, Cole runs several of his regular choirs on Zoom and offers regular choral workshops online. To express an interest, please contact using the form here.

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October 2, 2021

Brockham Choral

Role: Conductor

Come & Sing Handel Messiah
St Pauls Church, Dorking, 10am-4pm

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October/November, 2021

Reigate & Redhill Choral Society/Quincy Choral Society/Covent Garden Sinfonia

Role: Conductor

Recording sessions (closed to general public), Fauré Requiem

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December 4, 2021

Academy of Ancient Music, Brockham Choral

Role: Conductor

Handel Messiah

St Martin's Church, Dorking, 7.30pm

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December 5, 2021 (TBD)

Kingston Youth Choir

Role: Conductor

Christmas Showcase concert

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December 8, 2021

Surrey Youth Choir (with Surrey Youth Training Choir)

Role: Conductor

Vivaldi Gloria, festive works for choir & organ.

Christ Church, Woking, 7.30pm

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Various, March to June 2022

Surrey Arts Primary Schools Singing Festivals

Role: Workshop Leader & Conductor
Various venues across Surrey. More information TBA.

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May 21, 2022

Brockham Choral, Surrey Youth Choir, Surrey Youth Training Choir

Role: Conductor

70th Anniversary Concert. More information TBA.

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August 2022 (TBD)

Reid Consort

Role: Conductor

Performance at Edinburgh Sacred Arts Festival. More information TBA.

Recent Performances

April 7, 2018

The Reid Consort

Role: Conductor

Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem; Bruckner motets (selection)

St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, 7.30pm

April 8, 2018

Coro Vincenzo/The Squair Mile Consort of Viols

Role: Tenor (Jesus)
Schütz Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi

St Vincent's Church, Edinburgh, 7.30pm

April 14, 2018

Come & Sing

Role: Tenor (Jesus)
Schütz Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi

St Vincent's Church, Edinburgh, 7.30pm

April 21, 2018

St Andrews Renaissance Singers

Role: Conductor

Vivaldi Gloria

Dunkeld Cathedral, 5pm

April 22, 2018

St Andrews Renaissance Singers and the St Andrews Chamber Orchestra

Role: Conductor

Vivaldi Gloria, Monteverdi Beatus Vir, Lotti Crucifixus

St Salvator’s Chapel, St Andrews 7.30pm

May 2, 2018

St Andrews Renaissance Singers

Role: Conductor

Medical Memorial Service, St Salvator’s Chapel, St Andrews

May 19, 2018

The Reid Consort

Role: Conductor

Duruflé Requiem, Leighton Crucifixus

St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, 7.30pm

May - July, 2018 (various dates)

Byre Opera

Role: Chorus Master

Handel Xerxes

Byre Theatre, St Andrews - Friday 22, Saturday 23, Sunday 24 June (all 7.30pm)
Sunday 24 June, morning TBC - dementia friendly performance
Maltings Theatre, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Saturday 30 June (7.30pm), Sunday 1 July
Priory Church of the Order of St John, Clerkenwell, London, Thursday 5 July, Friday 6 July (7.30pm).

11-15 June 2018

DIMA Conducting Competition

Role: Conductor

Competition and masterclasses with Patrick Russill, Ronald Börger, Cornel Groza

14-15 July 2018

Sonoro Choir

Role: Conductor

Masterclass conductor - works by Ethel Smyth, Elgar, Jackson.

17-24 August 2018

Rundfunkchor Berlin (Berlin Radio Choir)

Role: Conductor

Active participant in Berlin International Masterclass.

Works by Dove, Stravinksy, Verdi, Bruckner, Schnittke.

24 August 2018

Rundfunkchor Berlin (Berlin Radio Choir)

Role: Conductor

Verdi Te Deum, closing concert of Berlin International Masterclass.

October 27, 2018

The Athenaeum Singers of Warminster

Role: Conductor

Workshop Day - Vivaldi, Treasder, Haydn

The Minster Church of St Deny's, Warminster

November 10, 2018

The Reid Consort

Role: Conductor

Parry Songs of Farewell, works by Joanna Gill, John Tavener and more.

St Vincent's Chapel, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, 7.30pm

December 1, 2018

The Athenaeum Singers of Warminster

Role: Conductor

Vivaldi Gloria, Haydn Little Organ Mass, short works by Poston, Howells, Praetorius.

Organist - Simon Dinsdale

The Minster Church of St Deny's, Warminster, 7pm.

December 11, 2018

The Athenaeum Singers of Warminster

Role: Conductor

Christmas Carols and Community Carols

Organist - Simon Dinsdale

Christ Church, Warminster, 7.30pm.

January 12, 2019

St John's Parish Church, Horsham

Role: Workshop Leader

Be a Chorister! workshops

Further information here.

February 2, 2019

Haslemere Musical Society

Role: Soloist

Come & Sing Fauré Requiem with Joanna Tomlinson

St Christopher's Church, Haslemere, 2pm-6.30pm.

February 9, 2019

The Reid Consort

Role: Conductor

Family Choral Music Workshops

Augustine United Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, various times during day.

Tickets here. (via Ticketsource)

March 2, 2019

Haslemere Musical Society

Role: Chorus Master

Haydn The Creation

Haslemere Hall, 7.30pm.

Further information here.

April 6, 2019

The Athenaeum Singers of Warminster

Role: Conductor

Workshop Day - Poulenc Gloria

Warminster Baptist Church, Warminster

Further information here.

April 13, 2019

The Reid Consort

Role: Conductor

Arvo Pärt Passio
With Instruments of the Reid

St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, 7.30pm

Tickets here. (via Ticketsource)

May 4, 2019

Haslemere Musical Society

Role: Chorus Master

Jenkins The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (Cole Bendall - conductor)

Shostakovich Symphony No. 9  (James Ross - conductor)

Haslemere Hall, 7.30pm.

Further information here.

May 8, 2019

Surrey Youth Choir

Role: Conductor

Primary Schools Music Festival, Dorking

Folksongs and traditional music.

May 25, 2019

The Reid Consort

Role: Conductor

PATCHWORK REQUIEM

St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, 7.30pm

June 1, 2019

The Athenaeum Singers of Warminster
British Sinfonietta

Role: Conductor

Haydn The Creation

The Minster Church of St Deny's, Warminster, 7pm.

Further information here.

June 24-28, 2019

Surrey Arts

Role: Workshop Leader

Singing Picnics for county primary schools - contact Surrey Music Hub for more details.

June 29, 2019

Leatherhead Choral Society
Surrey Youth Choir
Surrey Primary Schools

Role: Youth Choir Director

Assersohn The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The Old Barn Hall, Church Road, Bookham, KT23 3PG

July 2019

Sarteano Choral Conducting Workshop
Conducting workshop participant at the invitation of Simon Carrington and Brian O'Connell.

August 2019

Surrey Arts

Role: Youth Choir Director

Workshops in Woking/Walton.

11 August 2019

Reid Consort

Role: Conductor

Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle

St Vincent's Chapel, Edinburgh (part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe).

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3 September 2019

Athenaeum Singers of Warminster

Role: Conductor

Come-and-Sing rehearsal - Poulenc Gloria & Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols

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4 October 2019

Surrey Youth Choir

Role: Conductor

Civic Service, Holy Trinity, Guildford

19 October 2019

Athenaeum Singers of Warminster

Role: Conductor

Workshop Day - works by Poulenc, Joanna Gill, Alice Tegner, Melissa Dunphy

2 November 2019

The Reid Consort

Role: Conductor

...to the lonely dreams

UK Premiere of LaVoy Return Again, Dove The Passing of the Year, works by Kerry Andrew, Eliza Gilkyson, Morten Lauridsen

St Vincent's Chapel, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, 7.30pm

30 November, 2019

The Athenaeum Singers of Warminster

Role: Conductor

Poulenc Gloria, Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols, new Advent works

The Minster Church of St Deny's, Warminster, 7pm.

Further information here.

7 December 2019

Haslemere Musical Society
Role: Chorus Master

Bach Christmas Oratorio

11 December 2019

Surrey Youth Choir and Surrey Youth Training Choir
Role: Conductor

Britten Ceremony of Carols accompanied by harp
Christ Church, Woking

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1 February 2020

Turkish State Choir

Role: Conductor

Concert of the Walter Strauss Masterclass - symphonic and a capella repertoire
CSO Concert Hall, Ankrara, Turkey

8 February 2020

Haslemere Musical Society

Role: Conductor

Come and Sing - Rutter Requiem

7 March 2020

The Reid Consort
Role: Conductor

Lassus Lagrime di San Pietro

St Vincent's Chapel, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, 7.30pm

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25 March 2020 (cancelled - covid-19)

Surrey Youth Choir and Surrey Youth Training Choir
Role: Conductor

Spring Concert

The Marist Primary School, West Byfleet

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28 March 2020 (cancelled - covid-19)

Covent Garden Sinfonia
Role: Conductor

Mozart Symphony No. 40 and Haydn Nelson Mass

St Martin's Church, Dorking, 7.30pm

2 May 2020 (cancelled - covid-19)

The Reid Consort

Role: Conductor

Martin Mass for Double Choir, Leighton Laudate Pueri and works by Pearsall, Stravinsky.

St Vincent's Chapel, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, 7.30pm

16 May 2020 (cancelled - covid-19)

Haslemere Musical Society
Role: Chorus Master

Mozart Symphony No. 35 in D, Haffner, Mozart Kyrie in D minor, Mozart Overture and Scenes from Idomeneo

13 June 2020 (cancelled - covid-19)

Surrey Youth Choir and Surrey Youth Training Choir

Role: Conductor

Cecilia MacDowell Everyday Wonders: The Girl from Aleppo with Brockham Choral

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20 August 2020 (cancelled - covid-19)

Edinburgh Sacred Arts Festival
Role: Conductor

Composer portrait of Sir James MacMillan & Pizzetti Missa de Requiem with Reid Consort

Information here.

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November 2020

Reigate & Redhill Choral Society

Role: Interim Conductor

Recording Sessions of Christmas Carols

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Various, June & July 2021

Surrey Arts Primary Schools Singing Picnics

Role: Workshop Leader
Various venues across Surrey

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July 9 2021

Reigate & Redhill Choral Society

Role: Interim Conductor

Vivaldi Gloria, Haydn Insanae et vanae curae

St John's, Redhill, 7.30pm

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An archive of previous performances can be found here.