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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.
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