Next Concert
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22nd March at 7.30pm St Francis Church Salisbury |
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Introducing SCC
The love of and passion for singing is all you need to join a choir! The 130 members of Salisbury Community Choir demonstrate that at each of our 46 weeks of rehearsals across the year. Our eclectic repertoire includes world music, jazz, pop, folk, classical, gospel as well as venturing into major choral repertoire, and the choir has also commissioned new works from composers including Will Todd and Bob Chilcott, amongst others.
We present three major concerts each season, but we undertake a number of other smaller events. Almost all our performances are aimed at raising funds for charities. Under the baton of Graham Coatman, who took on the post of Musical Director in autumn 2022, the choir has risen to new heights. Amongst recent successes have been a “tour” to Brittany in July 2024 to perform Fauré’s Requiem and Palmeri’s Misa Tango, with the Moris Orkestra, at the festival, Les Musicales de Redon, and in Rennes, with music by Ēriks Ešenvalds, Ola Gjeilo and Morten Lauridsen.
New members are welcome to come and try us out at any time. There is no audition, but there may be a waiting list (usually only for sopranos and altos). Contact our Membership Secretary if you would like more information about the choir. The email address is membership@salisburycommunitychoir.org Our rehearsals are on Thursday evenings at Chafyn Grove School.
Our concerts in the 2024 / 2025 season will include Hiawatha’s Wedding by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a selection from Howard Goodall’s Christmas Cantata, the Cantique de Jean Racine by Faure, music by Samual Taylor Coleridge, Billy Joel, Anna Tabbush, Joni Mitchell, Johann Strauss and more.
The choir is a real community, with a wide spectrum of backgrounds and interests amongst all the members. On a personal note, taking them on at a difficult time for me, they have been incredibly generous and supportive.
Graham Coatman, Musical Director
Thank you to our audiences
It is always reassuring when a good and appreciative audience turns out on a Saturday evening to attend one of our performances. It is especially pleasing that on these occasions, as a Community Choir we are able, with our audiences’ support, to raise substantial funds for local charities. In the last year we have raised £295 for the Stars Appeal, £745 for Salisbury Hospice, over £1000 for the Salisbury Branch of Samaritans and £600 for the Alzheimer’s Day Centre in Salisbury.
Salisbury Community Choir is a thriving amateur choir with over 130 members
The choir sings for the sheer love of it, but also challenges itself to develop up to and beyond its potential. The choir is non auditioned, some members read music and some do not. The mixture works and with patient encouragement from our fantastic Musical Director, the choir achieves amazing performance successes, whilst having a lot of fun along the way!
We are ambitious and adventurous musically, commissioning new works and organising and performing in both small and large scale concerts all over the UK. We regularly tour abroad, mainly to Europe, but have adventured further afield.
The SCC has a big heart and we have a real community focus, supporting each other and fundraising for a diverse range of charities, from Hospices to Homelessness.
If you love to sing, have a spirit of adventure and would like to be part of our community why not come and try us out!
The SCC thrives on the variety of the music it sings, from choral classics to classic pop!
Recent repertoire includes:
- Alexander L’Estrange & Joanna Forbes-L’Estrange: Freedom! – The Power of Song (SCC commission)
- Martin Palmeri: Misa a Buenos Aires Misatango
- Will Todd: The City Garden (SCC commission)
- Bob Chilcott: The Salisbury Vespers (SCC joint commission)
- Sarah Quartel: A Winter Day
- Faure: Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine
- Compilations from: Oklahoma, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Les Miserables, ABBA and many others
- Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man
- An extensive variety of carols and Christmas music.
If you are thinking about joining us out contact Gill, our Membership Secretary at membership@salisburycommunitychoir.org
Registered Charity Number 1095033.