Upcoming Performances
Concerts in which Cole Bendall is involved in the 2020-21 season and beyond will be posted here as announced - please stay tuned or use the contact form to ask for more information!
Online Music Making
In light of the current healthcare crisis, Cole runs several of his regular choirs online on Zoom and offers regular choral workshops online. To express an interest, please contact using the form here.
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).
3 September 2019
Athenaeum Singers of Warminster
Role: Conductor
Come-and-Sing rehearsal - Poulenc Gloria & Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols
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
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
25 March 2020 (cancelled - covid-19)
Surrey Youth Choir and Surrey Youth Training Choir
Role: Conductor
Spring Concert
The Marist Primary School, West Byfleet
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
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.
An archive of previous performances can be found here.