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Cirencester Male Voice Choir welcomes new members throughout the year.
There is plenty in the calendar for the year ahead. We will be holding a professional recording session of new tracks for our website and for social media sites in April; and we are performing at the Winchcombe Music Festival in May. Then we will be off to Cornwall to give a series of concerts and take part in competition at the World’s largest Male Choral Festival. Our next home concert is planned for June 13th at the Parish Church and will feature a Military Wives’ choir and (hopefully) the brilliant Willshire Piano Duo. And we will round of the year on November 7th with our amazing guests, Celtic Harpist Harriet Earis – one of the foremost exponents of the Celtic harp in the UK – and the City of Bath Male Choir.
A “PERFECT” PERFORMANCE SAVED THE DAY AT OUR CHRISTMAS CONCERT
What could have been a Christmas concert crisis became a triumphant evening, thanks to the dazzling, last-minute apperance of 17-year-old soprano Harriet Perfect. When two soprano soloists were forced to withdraw after losing their voices, and the concert just two days away, we needed a musical miracle.
James Willshire is an internationally acclaimed pianist and recording artist and on the Keyboard Department faculty at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and Head of Keyboard at Clifton College.
A former Head of Music at Farmor’s School, Louise Matley has been appointed as an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and examines any instrument up to diploma level all over the country.
Our thanks to Lewington Wealth Management for their continued support, and our special thanks to the people of Cirencester and the surrounding area for helping us raise much needed funds for good causes.
NEW MEMBERS ARE WELCOME THROUGHOUT THE YEAR – NO NEED TO AUDITION
Cirencester Male Voice Choir welcomes new members at all times of the year. There is no need to have performed before, and no need to be able to read music. Above all we love to sing. We make new friends from all walks of life help the local and national charities to help people in need. When the mood grabs you, please come and try us out.
Details of how to come to a rehearsal, with no obligation, are here.
SUPPORTING LOCAL AND NATIONAL CHARITIES
With performances in Newport and Swansea we helped raised funds for charities in Wales and here in Cirencester raised more than £2500 for the Severn Freewheelers Emergency Voluntary Service. In December we will sing to aid the Longfield Community Hospice. Last year we were able to give monies to The Holly Gazzard Trust, the Cirencester Opportunity Group, the Cirencester Citizens Advice Bureau, the Oak and Furrows Wildlife Centre and the Cirencester Branch of Parkinson’s UK. Our success would not be possible without the amazing support of our wonderful audience members.
