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, and the summer concert is usually a “come and sing” event. 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 Puccini’s “Messe di Gloria”, Walton’s “Belshazzar’s Feast” and Vaughan Williams’ s “A Pilgrim’s Journey”.

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).