The Yorke Trust has a rich history of presenting a variety of concert and opera performances in the beautiful, idyllic setting of South Creake and its surrounding areas. Here are some of the projects that we have undertaken since foundation.
Summer Opera Production 2019
The Tempest by Henry Purcell
Director: Jennifer Hamilton
Conductor: Christopher McMullen-Laird
Choir Master: ​Sue Valentine
Noxwode Baroque Ensemble led by Conor Gricmanis

St Mary's Church, South Creake.

Financially assisted by Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk Small Grants Scheme
Norfolk County Council Arts Project Fund
Norfolk Opera Trust

​Christmas Opera Production 2018
Heinrich Schütz: The Christmas Story 
Director Jennifer Hamilton 
The Yorke Trust Old Chapel, South Creake
Summer Opera 2018
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Director Jennifer Hamilton, Conductor Adam Johnson

​St Mary's Church, South Creake
Easter Choral Course 2018
​Cantatas No. 4, 22, 66 & 151
King's Lynn & South Creake, Norfolk 

Christmas Opera Production 2017
Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors

Summer Opera 2017
Handel Susanna

Easter Choral Course 2015
Handel  L’allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato

Summer Opera 2014
Christoph Willibald Gluck  Armide​

Easter Choral Course 2014 
Henry Purcell: The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation
Benjamin Britten: Hymn to the Virgin
J. S. Bach: Motet: Jesu, meine Freude BWV.227
Heinrich Schütz: Musikalishe Exequien
Heinrich Schütz: German Magnificat 
Johannes Brahms: Marian-Lieder, Opus 22

Summer Opera 2013
Britten A Midsummer Night's Dream

Easter Choral Course 2013
Carissimi Jephte (1648)
Purcell Laudamus Caeciliam (1683)
Purcell Welcome to All the Pleasures (1683)
Britten Hymn to St. Cecilia Op.27 (1942)
Handel Four Coronation Anthems (1727)

Summer Opera 2012 
Scenes of Enchantment, Comedy and Romance

Easter Choral Course 2012 
Bach St John Passion 

Summer Opera 2011
Monteverdi L'Orfeo

Easter Choral Course 2011 
Works by Adrian Batten c.1591-1637, William Byrd 1540-1623, Edward Elgar 1857-1934, Hubert Parry 1848-1918
Charles Villiers Stanford 1852-1924, Tomás Luis de Victoria c.1548-1611

Summer Opera 2010
La vie Parisienne and Cities of Dreams (Opera Scenes).

Easter Choral Course 2010
Bach Cantatas No.6 and No.104
Motet Komm, Jesu, Komm BWV 229
Orchestral Suite No.1 BWV 1066

Summer Opera 2009
Rameau Castor et Pollux

Easter Choral Course 2009 
Handel Israel in Egypt
Handel Concerto Grosso Opus 6 No.2 in F

Summer Opera 2008
Handel Theodora

Easter Choral Course 2008
Bach Magnificat
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Bach Cantata 67 Halt im Gedächtnis Jesus Christ

Summer Opera 2007
Purcell Dido & Aeneas
John Frederick Lampe Pyramus & Thisbe

Easter Choral Course 2007
Thomas Tomkins What David Heard
John Adams Shaker Loops
Handel Dixit Dominus

Easter Choral Course 2006
Bach Cantatas
No.9 Es ist das Heil uns kommen her
No.23 Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn
No.93 Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten
Bach Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor BWV1060a

Summer Opera 2005 
World Première – Norfolk and London - Yorke Trust commission
Jonathan Keates & Gerard McBurney The Airman’s Tale 

Easter Choral Course 2005
Handel Messiah

Summer Opera 2004 
Houghton Hall performance in the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales
Handel Samson

Easter Choral Course 2004
Vivaldi Gloria
Vivaldi Magnificat
Vivaldi Four Seasons
Scarlatti Dixit Dominus

Summer Opera 2003
Monteverdi The Coronation of Poppea

Easter Choral Course 2003 
Handel Alexander’s Feast 

Summer Opera 2002
World Première – Yorke Trust commission
Kevin Crossley-Holland & Rupert Bawden The Sailor’s Tale 

Easter Choral Course 2002
Bach
Cantata No.5 Wo soll ich fliehen hin?
Cantata No.105 Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht
Violin Concerto in A minor BWV 1041
Cantata No.75 Die Elenden sollen essen

Summer Opera 2001 
Handel Julius Caesar

Easter Choral Course 2001
An 80th birthday tribute for Sir Malcolm Arnold, CBE – performed in the presence of the composer
Arnold, Britten, Byrd, Handel, Howells, Purcell, Tallis and Walton

Summer Opera 2000
Rameau Hippolytus and Aricia

Easter Choral Course 2000
Bach Matthäus-Passion

July 1999 Norfolk & 
October 1999 Manchester
Claudio Monteverdi The Return of Ulysses

Easter Choral Course 1999
Bach St John Passion 

Easter Choral Course 1998
Bach Cantatas
No.50 Nun ist das Heil und der Kraft
No.51 Jauchzet Gott
No.80 Ein feste Burg

Summer Opera 1998 
Handel Semele

Summer Opera 1997
Purcell King Arthur

Easter Choral Course 1997
Haydn The Creation 

Easter Choral Course 1996 
Mozart Requiem 
Haydn Nelson Mass
Purcell Funeral Music 

Easter Choral Course 1995 
Bach Mass in B minor

Easter Choral Course 1994
Handel Messiah

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