Clare College Choir are to take part in a performance of celebrated contemporary composer Harvey Brough's ’‘Requiem in Blue' at the start of next month.

The Clare alumnus and former chorister Brough marks his 50th birthday and 30 years in the music industry with a series of concerts of which the performance in Cambridge will be the culmination.

The composition is a fusion of classical, jazz and rock styles and will provide an unusual departure for the Clare College Choir.

Brough a performer, composer and producer is best known for his band ‘Harvey and the Wallbangers' formed in Cambridge in the early eighties. Since then he has composed, arranged and produced music for other performers as well as writing music for BBC television and major Hollywood films.

Written for his late brother Lester, also a Clare alumnus who died in a motorcycle accident when Harvey was 17, ‘Requiem in Blue' has been performed throughout Europe and was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 programme.

The piece, composed for an adult choir, children's choir and eight musicians, will be performed with the Hills Road Chamber Choir.

The concert will be on Saturday December 1 at St George's Church, Chesterfield Road, Chesterton. Tickets are £8 or £5 for concessions. More information is available from www.hillsroad.ac.uk and tickets are available for purchase from the Clare College porter's lodge.

The choir have a number of other up-coming performances outside of regular chapel services including a Choral Evensong for Remembrance Sunday, November 11, to be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

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