Rehearsals are timed so that singers can join them immediately after work, beginning at 6.15 and ending by 8.15, the first of the season being an Open Evening on Tuesday, 9th September 2008 at the NatWest building, 1, Princes Street, next to Bank station (Exit 2), a ten minute walk from Liverpool Street station & three minutes from Cannon Street.
The choir welcomes new singers in all voice ranges. If you enjoy singing and can attend rehearsal regularly, then come and give them a try! There are no auditions: some choral singing experience and some sight- reading ability would be an advantage but is not essential as all works to be performed are thoroughly rehearsed over the course of each term.
Forthcoming concerts in 08-09 season include music by Gabrieli, Handel, Finzi, Elgar, Holst, spirituals, carols and folksongs, at venues including Christ Church Spitalfields, St Botoloph’s- without- Bishopsgate and Southwark Cathedral.
The musical director of the choir is Paul Ayers who has recently been appointed to the choir.
Paul Ayres studied music at Oxford University, and now works freelance as a composer & arranger, choral conductor & musical director, and organist & accompanist. His compositions usually involve words – solo songs, choral pieces, incidental music – and he works with many choirs and theatre groups. Paul is conductor of the London College of Music Chamber Choir and the Walbrook Singers, and he has given many solo organ recitals throughout the world.
For more information to join the choir, please log on their website www.citychorus.info or contact our membership secretary Sarah Silve: [email protected] / 020 8367 3517.
Posted: 2008-08-01 14:48:02