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WINCHCOME MUSIC FESTIVAL AT ST PETER’S
We are performing at the Winchcombe Music Festival Concert on May 31st along with Soprano Hannah Davey and the Cotswold Male Voice Choir. It’s part of a brilliant four day event featuring Baroque Sonatas on harpsichord and violin, a children’s concert, and the LANO string quartet. For full details and tickets, click here.
BOOKING IS NOW OPEN FOR OUR SUMMER CONCERT WITH THE WILLSHIRE PIANO DUO AND A MILITARY WIVES CHOIR – BUY ONLINE HERE.
Our next home concert is planned for June 13th at Cirencester Parish Church and joining the Cirencester Male Voice Choir will be our guests, the Corsham and Colerne Military Wives’ Choir. The Military Wives organisation operate as a registered charity and network of 75 choirs in British military bases across the UK and overseas, bringing women in the military community closer together through singing. They welcome wives, partners, serving member, reservists, veterans, widows, mothers, sisters, and daughters linked to the Armed Services. The evening will be headlined by the amazing Willshire Piano Duo, who seem to sell out the church every time they play for us.
A VERY SPECIAL EVENING WITH THE BRILLIANT HARPIST HARRIET EARIS AND THE CITY OF BATH MALE CHOIR
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, who recently triumphed as ‘Best British Choir’ at the Cornwall International Male Choral Festival.
HEAR OUR PERFORMANCE IN TRURO CATHEDRAL FOR THE CORNWALL INTERNATIONAL MALE CHORAL FESTIVAL
We managed to pack in four concerts and a competition packed over three busy days at the Cornwall International Male Choral Festival. It was great to meet with so many other choirs in all genres and enjoy the quite wonderful generosity of our hosts. Lots of clotted cream, joyous singing and some quick changes in car parks.
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.
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.
SUPPORTING LOCAL AND NATIONAL CHARITIES
With performances in Newport and Swansea we helped raised funds for charities in Wales and here in Cirencester raised £5000 for the Severn Freewheelers Emergency Voluntary Service. and 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.
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.