About Us

Wantage Choral Society is a mixed voice choir of around 90 singers, drawn from Wantage and surronding towns and villages.

We perform three or four large-scale concerts a year. The Autumn and Easter concerts usually feature substantial choral works in Wantage’s beautiful parish church; the December concert is more traditional Christmas fare,  often in collaboration with other local musicians; the summer concert usually involves what some music enthusiasts regard as ‘lighter’ repertoire (although we are not prepared to let our musical standards slip). For many years the society has collaborated with other local groups, including, in recent years, the Oxford Sinfonia, the Oxford Symphony Orchestra and the Abingdon and District Music Society. The choir recently started working with a professional London orchestra, the Stanford Ensemble.

We sing a varied range of music; recent concerts have included Elgar’s ‘Dream of Gerontius’, Tippett’s ‘A Child Of Our Time’ and Arvo Pärt’s ‘Beatitudes’.

In 2006 the choir released a recording of polychoral motets by Giovanni Gabrieli.

The Wantage Choral Society is affiliated to “Making Music” (formerly the National Federation of Music Societies) and is a Registered Charity (No. 265227).