5 December: Levowan Chamber Choir

Calstock Arts is delighted to welcome back the ever popular Levowan Chamber Choir to perform their Christmas concert.

Founded in 2015 and brought together to celebrate in the collective joy of making music, Levowan Chamber Choir has now become well-established in the South West. The ensemble performs several concerts each year at venues across Devon and Cornwall, captivating audiences with its signature sound. Passionately driven to maintain high standards of performance and musicianship, the choir works on tonal richness and choral blend as well as musical expression and artistic delivery. The singers all have a strong musical background and bring a broad range of experience and versatility. Levowan presents an extensive repertoire, comprising sacred and secular choral works from the fields of both classical and contemporary music, and has been honoured to premiere several pieces here in the UK. With a core ethos of promoting accessibility to the world of beautiful choral music, the choir commits to delivering a number of free performances for charitable causes.

For more information, please visit their website: www.levowan.com

Mark Smith, director and accompanist,  studied piano and organ at Trinity College of Music London and worked as an accompanist in London and the South East before moving to Cornwall in 2011. He now works as an accompanist in the West Devon/East Cornwall area and also as a freelance gardener. When not sat at a piano in front of a choir or up to his elbows in brambles, Mark enjoys growing organic veg, foraging, reading, walking and, yes … playing the piano.

Christmas 2025 Programme

Lux Aurumque (Eric Whitacre)

The Darkest Midnight in December (Stephen Main)

Wexford Carol (arr. Timothy Noon)

Hodie Christus Natus Est (JP Sweelinck)

Love Came Down (Hugh Walkington – première)

Good Ale (John Rutter)

To Thee My Heart I Offer (Elaine Hagenberg)

Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Will Toff)

Winter’s Waking  (Amy F Bernon)

The Lamb (Luke Mayernik)

O Magnum Mysterium (Morten Lauridsen)

Stille Nacht (Franz Gruber)

Sussex Carol (Elain Hagenberg)

Shepherd’s Pipe Carol (John Rutter)