Concert 3

Sunday, 1 March, 2026 @ 3:00 pm

By ROYAL Command!
A Choral Powerhouse featuring our own acclaimed Handel Week Festival Chorus along with magnificent Soloists, the Handel Week Festival Orchestra led by our Concert Master Thomas Yang, and all under the baton of Artistic Director and Founder Dennis Northway!

We will present the magnificent Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate HWV 278 & 279 along with the sublime Anthem The Ways of Zion do Mourn on the death of Queen Caroline HWV 264. Handel was commissioned by the royal family to write a glorious celebratory setting of the Jubilate and Te Deum, two canticles marking the Treaty of Utrecht, which established the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, ending the War of the Spanish Succession. We add to this the moving Anthem for Queen Caroline, consort of George II, who had been friend and patron to Handel for more than thirty years when she died in 1737. Our soloists are Kimberly McCord, Soprano, Michelle Wrighte, Mezzo Soprano, Cameo Humes, Tenor and Noah Gartner, Baritone. A sparkling afternoon of music-making awaits!