May 2018 | Cantores Chamber Choir

Cantores – Data Privacy Notice

May 18, 2018

1. Your personal data – what is it?

Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the Data Controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR).

2. Who are we?

Cantores is a chamber choir based in the Cotswolds and registered charity 1055674. The Committee of Cantores acts as Data Controller (contact details below). This means it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.

3. What personal data do we collect?

We may collect the following information:

Names and titles;

Contact details such as telephone numbers, addresses, and email addresses;
Photographs for use on our website and social media.

4. How do we process your personal data?

We comply with our obligations under the GDPR by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures and processes are in place to protect personal data.

We use your personal data for the following purposes: –

To fundraise and promote our interests;To inform you of news, future events and activities being organised by us;

To notify you if an event is cancelled or if the event information advertised has changed;
To maintain appropriate photos on our website and social media accounts;
To contact you from time-to-time to ensure that the data we hold is current;
To conduct surveys to ask your opinions;
To administer our membership records;
To keep in touch with professional musicians who work with us from time to time;
To maintain our own accounts and records, including the processing of gift aid declarations;
To notify you of any updates to this Data Privacy Notice.

5. What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

Consent of the data subject so that we can keep you informed about future concerts and events, request feedback, and to administer choir membership recordsProcessing is necessary for the legitimate interests of the data controller or a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests, rights or freedoms of the data subject;
Compliance with legal obligations.

6. Sharing your personal data

We will not share or pass on your personal details to any other organisation or third party, except to any party who we may from time to time engage to perform functions relating solely to us, currently MailChimp, GroupSpaces and Eventbrite. We and any such party engaged by us adhere to the principles set out in Data Protection Act 1998, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 and the GDPR.

7. How long do we keep your personal data?

Personal data processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary. Choir members or professionals who cease their association with Cantores will have their data record removed from our database within 12 months. Specifically, to comply with legal obligations we will retain gift aid declarations and associated paperwork for up to 6 years after the calendar year to which they relate.

8. Your rights and your personal data

Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data: –

The right to request a copy of your personal data which we hold about you;
The right to request that we correct any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;
The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for us to retain such data;
The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time;
The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;
The right to object to the processing of personal data (where applicable);
The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.

9. Further processing

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Data Protection Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing.

10. Contact Details

To exercise all relevant rights, queries or complaints please in the first instance contact us at cantorescotswolds@gmail.com.

You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.

Cantores Chamber Choir

Registered Charity 1055674

Contact Address: 48 Tinglesfield, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 2JL, UK

Email: cantorescotswolds@gmail.com

Website: https://cantores.net

This Data Privacy Notice was approved by the Cantores Committee on 10 May 2018

Music’s Praise – 23 June 2018

May 8, 2018

Michael Hurd, the composer of the headline work in our programme ‘Music’s Praise’, was born in Gloucester in 1928 and died in 2006. Written for the Stroud Festival in 1968, the work sets four poems by Alexander Pope, William Strode, William Shakespeare and Robert Herrick for chorus with an accompaniment of string ensemble or piano. The music mines the rich vein of twentieth century English pastoral romanticism, contrasting differing ways in which music can reflect and inspire the human condition.

When John Holloway set ‘Six Poems of John Drinkwater’ in celebration of Cantores’ first twenty years in 2011 it had been some decades since he had performed Michael Hurd’s songs but the unconscious influences are clear! John Drinkwater was one of the so-called Dymock poets, including Rupert Brooke and Edward Thomas, some of whom lived in or near the village in Gloucestershire and were writing in the years immediately preceding the First World War. Their words conjure a lost world of bucolic innocence and the looming tragedy of war.

The programme also presents three vocally challenging Baroque masterpieces, of which perhaps the best known is Handel’s famous coronation anthem ‘Zadok the Priest’, composed for George II in 1727, some 42 years after Purcell’s had composed ‘My Heart is Inditing’ for the coronation of James II in 1685, the year of Handel’s birth. The work juxtaposes ensembles with full choruses, with notably complex overlapping rhythms and textures.

The motets of J.S.Bach paved the way for generations of succeeding composers, in particular Mendelssohn and Brahms. Bach’s lines and textures are uncompromisingly instrumental, yet the music displays his incomparably profound response to the text, which in this case is drawn from Psalm 117 ‘Praise the Lord all ye people’.

Cantores will present the same programme again on Saturday 30 June in Forthampton Parish Church (near Tewkesbury) at 7.30pm. Tickets £15, available on the door or telephone 01684 292401. Concessions available; U16s free.

Monthly Archives: May 2018

Cantores – Data Privacy Notice

Music’s Praise – 23 June 2018