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During October the St Peters Singers, a fifty strong chamber choir from Leeds, England performed a number of concerts during a short tour of the island of Mallorca.

The highlight of the tour was their performance on Wednesday 28th October in Palma's impressive La Seu Cathedral. The concert started at 7pm.

The singing group first came into existence thirty years ago but only recently have they spread their wings and performed concerts overseas. In 2007 the choir organised their first tour to Romania and sang in the Cathedrals of Sibiu and Bucharest. The head of the choir is Simon Lindley, who has been the Musical Director since it started in 1977. Musical accompaniment will provided by organist David Houlder.

The choir performed four times whilst on Mallorca and the churches hosting the hour long concerts were all selected because they each have wonderful pipe organs. The first concert on Sunday 25th October took place at 8pm at the Parish Church of Sant Joan, which lies in the centre of Mallorca around 20 miles east of Palma. On the next evening the choir sang at the Parish Church of Sant Andreu at 7:30pm and on 28th October the choir warmed up for their big cathedral performance later in the day with a lunchtime concert at Basilica de Sant Francesc at 1pm.

During their stay the choir were based in the north west of the island at the holiday resort of Puerto Pollenca. There are many British people living on the island of Mallorca now so the programme of works which includes pieces by British composers Purcell and Elgar may be familiar. The choir also sang works by Mendelssohn, Elgar, Handel and Haydn.

The sandstone-built La Seu Cathedral towers above the city of Palma. It has a magnificent structure, the construction of which started in 1209. Some people may compare the Gothic components of the church with those of the Sagrada Familie in Barcelona. That is not surprising because Antoni Gaudi, the architect of the famous cathedral in Barcelona, was called in to help with a restoration project in 1901. The La Seu Cathedral which originally took almost four hundreds years to build, overlooks Palma's harbour area on the south coast of the island. Flythomascook.com offer frequent flights to Palma from many UK Airports.