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Waterperry Christmas Carol Concert

With guest reader Petroc Trelawny and vocal ensemble Hemiola.

13th December 2026, 2:30pm

St Mary the Virgin Church, Waterperry Gardens

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Join us in the historic St Mary the Virgin Church, nestled within Waterperry Gardens, for a beautiful afternoon of carols and sacred music. With special guest reader, Petroc Trelawny (BBC Proms and Radio 3), and the voices of vocal ensemble Hemiola filling the church, this is a moment of quiet magic to mark the start of Christmas.

Credits

Programme to be announced.

Timings

Performance starts at 2.30pm. Approx. finish 3.30pm.

Booking Dates

Priority Booking: 29 September
General Booking: 6 October

Tickets

Tickets £50. NHS/Blue Light Card Holders Tickets at £25.

Petroc Trelawny

Raised in west Cornwall, his early career includes broadcasting in Hong Kong for the British Forces Broadcasting Service, being part of the launch team for Classic FM and London News Radio, presenting breakfast on BBC Radio Manchester, and working as a presenter for RTE in Ireland. He is President of the Lennox Berkeley Society, Luton Music. The Friends of the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove and the Three Spires Singers and is Vice-Patron of the London Chorus. As well as classical music he loves books, travel, food and wine, cinema and theatre.

He is a Trustee of the Hall for Cornwall, Truro and a member of English Heritage’s Blue Plaque panel.

Petroc Trelawny’s best-selling book ‘Trelawny’s Cornwall – a Journey Through Western Lands’, published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson, is out now in paperback. ‘Petroc Trelawny’s Classical Puzzle Book’ was published by Quarto last year. Petroc is one of the best-known voices on BBC Radio Three - where after fourteen years presenting the daily Breakfast programme, he now hosts In Tune. Last year he succeeded David Dimbleby as commentor for the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph on BBC1 and previously was part of BBC Television’s coverage of the Coronation of King Charles III and the funeral of Her Majesty The Queen. He has presented BBC Proms on radio and television for twenty-five years and introduces the annual live BBC Television broadcast of the Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Day Concert. In 2023 he hosted BBC Television’s ‘Cardiff Singer of the World’ for the thirteenth time. He has presented the international telecast of Eurovision Young Musician to more than two dozen countries from Edinburgh and hosted Eurovision Choir live from Gothenburg. He presents performances by the Royal Ballet shown in cinemas around the world, and anchors note-by-note coverage of the Leeds Piano Competition for Medici.tv.

About Hemiola

Harvey Lok (Director)

Lucy Mitten, Lingling Bao-Smith

Alicia Hunt, Phoebe Wakefield

Hugo Williamson, Robert Murray-John

Duncan Tarboton, James Gooding

Established in 2023 by co-founders Harvey Lok (Director) and Alicia Hunt (General Manager), Hemiola is a vocal ensemble formed by former choral scholars of The Choir of Royal Holloway, alongside friends and fellow singers met along the way. The group draws on some of the UK’s finest emerging talent, with singers also performing with The Sixteen, Voces8 Scholars, Siglo de Oro, Tenebrae, the Oxford Bach Soloists, and more.

In spring 2025, the ensemble completed their first tour with a reflective programme inspired by Christina Rossetti’s Good Friday, and in July 2025, Hemiola was honoured to headline the Brecon Choir Festival, marking another significant milestone in the ensemble’s growing artistic journey.

The group are due to complete their first recording session in the VOCES8 Centre this November, and can’t wait to be featuring in Waterperry Opera Festival’s Winter Season.

FAQs

  • The Waterperry Christmas Carol Concert will run for approximately one hour.

  • In St Mary the Virgin Church, Waterperry.