THE CHICHESTER SINGERS

The Chichester Singers are an established part of musical life in Chichester and West Sussex and recently celebrated their 50th anniversary. The choir has over 135 members and, under our Conductor and Director of Music, Jonathan Willcocks, our repertoire has included many highly acclaimed performances of the great choral works, with first-class professional soloists and orchestras.   We currently work with Southern Pro Musica (www.southernpromusica.org ).  Most of all, we enjoy our music and want to share that enjoyment with our audiences and members, who come both from the city and further afield.

During the past 14 years we have been visiting European cities for short concert tours.   These have included Paris, Chartres (with which Chichester is twinned), Brussels, Ghent and also Ravenna (another Chichester 'twin') and Padua in Italy. In 2002 we travelled to Andalucia and gave concerts in Granada and Seville, and in May 2005 we enjoyed a very successful tour to Hungary.    This picture shows our concert in the Matthias Church, Budapest.

Our  most recent musical expedition to Europe was in October this year, when we gave concerts  in Dubrovnik Cathedral in Croatia and in Kotor Cathedral in Montenegro.   

We were delighted to be the first British choir to perform in Kotor Cathedral.     These pictures  show a rehearsal in Dubrovnik Cathedral and (below) our performance in St Tryphon's Cathedral, Kotor, with our Croatian mezzo soprano soloist, Dora Dučakijević.      

In March we much enjoyed performing Jonathan's work A Great and Glorious Victory, commissioned to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, and in June we gave a highly successful performance of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius (see Recent Reviews).   All our major concerts are in Chichester Cathedral.

The choir's first CD, featuring Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Dvořák's Mass in D is now available on the Herald label.