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Choir Section

Choir on stage at Chester Cathedral

The Senior choir currently has 170 members.  Drawing singers from Chester and the surrounding district the choir gives five concerts each year in the beautiful location of Chester Cathedral.

The three principal concerts in November and in the Spring are performances of major choral classics, oratorio and similar works with professional soloists and orchestra.

The choir engages professional soloists and orchestral players to perform the works in their entirety to a very high standard.

Choir in rehearsal

In May the concert comprises a number of smaller works, usually performed with accompaniment from the cathedral organ.  This concert also forms the basis of the overseas tour programme.

The choir makes an overseas tour every two years. Tours to Ghent, Venice, Prague, Dresden and Leipzig, Budapest and Florence have been made in recent years.

In addition to these concerts, the choir gives two performances of Christmas music in Chester Cathedral in December. These two Christmas concerts provide an opportunity for all the family to celebrate the festive Season with us.

You will find full details of future choir concerts elsewhere in this web site.

Admission to the choir is by audition; either in September, at the start of the new season, or in January, at the beginning of the second session of the season.

Choir on Tour

Full details of admission procedures can be obtained from the Membership Secretary,  0151 336 5088 or by
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Video of choir rehearsing Mahler's 2nd Symphony in Chester Cathedral on YouTube Youtube.

 
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Newsflash

Our 2012 Newsletter is now available here.

 

Chester Young Composer 2012 Competition.

A new competition for a piece of Christmas-themed music to be performed by Chester Music Society Choir. Click here  for full details.

 

Full details of the Choral Workshop are now available. Click here.

 

The Society will be holding its annual Chamber Music Workshop for string players on 31st March 2012 at Abbeygate College. Further details  are available here.

 

Special Recital
29th February 2012 in St Mary's Centre.

A special recital by the winners of the Chester Music Society Young Musicians of the Year Competition. Selim Ungut, piano and Heather Heighway, soprano.