Following the success of the revived May Festival at St Stephen's we're delighted to present a two-day Michaelmas Festival on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 October
Saturday 3 October
11.00: Organ Recital by Simon Lole (organist of St Mary's Swanage)
16.00: Choral Evensong
Tomkins responses, Second service (Gibbons), My beloved spake (Greenhow)
Sunday 4 October
10.45: Solemn Mass
Mass for five voices (Byrd), Factum est silentium (Dering)16.00: Choral Evensong
Caesar responses, Wood in F (Collegium Regale), Hail gladdening light (Wood)
Including the installation of Canon Nicholas Jepson-Biddle as Rector of Bournemouth Town Centre Parish
Director of Music: Nigel Groome
Organist: Geoffrey Morgan
All services sung by St Stephen's Festival Choir
Future dates for your diary:
- Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 December 2026: Britten Festival
- Saturday 1 to Bank Holiday Monday 3 May 2027 - May Festival