PEREGRINE
Orchestra | Voices | Chamber
Daniel Collins
Founder and Artistic Director
Due to the hot weather, and associated concerns over safety of audience and performers, the Peregrine Voices concert in Kensal Green on Thursday 25 June has been postponed until the autumn. Info on this concert will be found in the season email.
What happens when The Sixteen’s Harry Christophers, probably the best known choral director in the world is indisposed and Associate Conductor Eamonn Dougan is otherwise engaged?
Daniel Collins The Sixteen’s Alto and Peregrine founder and conductor comes to the rescue!!!
Daniel stepped in at short notice to make his conducting debut with The Sixteen in Truro Cathedral, Friday June 12 2026.
2026
Peregrine Orchestra
Previous Concert
Peregrine Orchestra and Voices
Sunday 21st June, 6pm: Mozart’s Requiem
St Augustines, Kilburn
Peregrine Orchestra and Voices performed a work especially close to Peregrine’s heart: Mozart’s extraordinary final masterpiece. Around it, we have built a programme of music that moves through solemnity, radiance, grief and hope.
Mendelssohn – Overture to St Paul
Beethoven – Funeral March from Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Eroica
Mozart – Laudate Dominum
Stanford – Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in A
Mozart – Requiem
Review of the Peregrine Orchestra and Voices concert 21/6/26
Last Sunday’s concert saw a change in the planned programme, Holst’s The Planets suite was replaced by Mendelssohn’s Overture to "St. Paul”, Beethoven’s Funeral March from Symphony no. 3, Mozart’s Laudate Dominum and Stanford’s Magnificat. All performed to perfection, with beautiful singing by fantastic soloists as well as the choir.
This was quite a feat by Daniel Collins, Musical Director of Peregrine Orchestra and Voices, to re-plan a program at the last minute, rehearse the music, even write concert notes for the audience, and still produce a quality evening that would make any top echelon orchestra proud.
The main piece remained as planned, Mozart’s Requiem. This was the most requested piece (by past audience poll, we were told). It too was enthusiastically received.
I urge you to seek out future concerts by Peregrine - you get more than just music played for you: Daniel Collins gives some insight about the music and his own take on what inspires him about it, which enhances the entire experience.
M B-L
Peregrine Chamber
Upcoming Concerts
all at St. Mary le Strand (all free entry/donation only)
Residency at Grand Junction
Peregrine Voices Tickets, Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 7:30 PM | Eventbrite
Sat 12 December 2026, 7pm - at St. Mary Magdalene, Paddington
Residency at St. Mary le Strand
Wed 20 May 2026, 7pm - at St. Mary le Strand
Wed 30 Sept 2026, 7pm - at St. Mary le Strand
Plus evening services at St. Mary le Strand and St. Gabriel’s, Pimlico
Our chamber series supporting emerging artists is returning at the beautiful church of St. Mary le Strand.
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Previous Event
Music of the night
Sunday 8th March 7:30pm
St. Gabriel’s, Pimlico
PEREGRINE ORCHESTRA
Directed by Daniel Collins
Co-Leader - Poppy McGhee
Co-Leader - Angus Bain
Tenor - William Searle
Horn - Tim Costen
Mozart – Overture from Don Giovanni
Bach – Ich habe genug BWV 82
(first movement only)
Britten – Serenade for Tenor, Horn and strings
(Soloist: William Searle)
Tchaikovsky – Symphony no.6 in B minor “Pathetique”
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Review of Music of the night
Peregrine Orchestra
Peregrine Orchestra with their leader Daniel Collins gave us, true to form, an excellent performance of works by Britten, Bach (with Dan Collins singing - and what a beautiful voice!) the cantata, and to top it all, Tchaikovsky's 6th ("Pathetique") symphony in all its complexity and mood swings. Daniel Collins spoke to us about the works prior to play, thus giving better insight which I found fascinating and informing. All this and the beautiful space of St. Gabriel Pimlico church, while supporting a young students musical scholarship. They have been consistently performing concerts that are hugely entertaining and enlightening for several years, and long may they go on flourishing. Or in a word, recommended.
M B-L
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