Organisations

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If you represent one of the organisations participating in the Festival, you can now add your own content to this web site. This can be used to say more about your group and can contain a link to your web site if you have one.

Celebrating 40 years of conservation

Stamford was designated as England’s first Conservation Town in 1967. This confirmed recognition of the town’s qualities over several centuries.

  • In the late 17th Century, the traveller Celia Fiennes, said Stamford is 'as fine a built town all of stone as may be seen'.
  • Sir Walter Scott claimed the view up to St Mary’s Church was ‘the finest sight on the road between London and Edinburgh’.
  • John Betjeman called Stamford 'England's most attractive town'.
  • Nicholas Pevsner said: ‘Stamford is the English country market town par excellence'.

This web site was developed as part of Stamford Civic Society's festival celebrating 40 years of Stamford's conservation status.

Stamford Chamber Orchestra

Stamford Chamber Orchestra was formed in 1983 by Jeremy Pike. Its players are drawn mostly from Stamford, Oakham and surrounding areas. The orchestra has developed a reputation for providing high quality performances of classical music for people in and around Stamford, performing three concerts a year.

Stamford Chamber Orchestra is conducted by Christopher Brown, who studied at Cambridge where he was a choral scholar at King's College. He later studied with Lennox Berkeley at the Royal College of Music and with Boris Blacher in Berlin. Christopher Brown has been a much sought-after composition teacher at the Royal Academy of Music since 1969, and has been active as a conductor since the mid 70's.

The Burghley Singers

The Burghley Singers are a Stamford-based choir founded by the late Harold Harvey and meet weekly on Wednesdays to rehearse. They are a relatively small group with a 'everyone a soloist' feel to them.

Woven Chords: world music choir

Woven Chords is a mixed choir from Stamford who sing unaccompanied harmony songs from across the globe. Celebrating the richness and variety of the human voice, Woven Chordsacappella singing gives expression to sumptuous harmonies from many different cultural traditions.

The Stamford Endowed Schools

The Stamford Endowed Schools is proud to be a part of the town's conservation celebrations. We will be making up part of the musical programme for April 28th 2007, when some of our students perform solos.

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