Welcome

Welcome to the Wantage Choral Society website. We hope that you enjoy finding out about our concerts and that you may even be interested in joining us.

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

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

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Wantage Choral Society’s

next concert will include

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Vivaldi: Gloria

Pergolesi: Magnificat

plus Vivaldi, Corelli

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Saturday 14th November 2009, 7.30pm.

Wantage Parish Church

(Tickets: £10 in advance, £12 on the door)

The poster for our next concert is available for download from here, in either A4 size or A5 size. We would be grateful if you were able to print a copy and arrange for it to be displayed — possibly in some location where our posters haven’t appeared before?