The 2009 Festival ran from Thursday 16th April to Saturday 18th April 2009.
The evening programmes included Mendelssohn "Lauda Sion", Puccini "Messa di Gloria", Handel "Zadok the Priest" and "Blessed are they that consider the poor" (Foundling Hospital Anthem), Jonathan Willcocks "A Great and Glorious Victory", Michael Haydn "Missa in honorem Sancta Ursulae" and Joseph Haydn "Te Deum" as well as the competition pieces.
All three concerts featured the Leith Hill Festival Choirs and either the English Festival Orchestra or Canzona under the baton of Festival Conductor Brian Kay.
Piano accompaniment was provided by the Festival Accompanist Alan Brown.
Results from the competitions
Photo album - Day 1 (Div 3 choirs)
Photo album - Day 2 (Div 1 choirs)
Photo album - Day 3 (Div 2 choirs)
Messiah
Each year, as a curtain-raiser to the Festival itself, Festival and independent singers come together in a performance of a major choral masterpiece: The Bach St. Matthew or St. John Passion, or Handel's Messiah. This year it was Messiah and you can read a review of this moving performance here.