About Salisbury Chamber Chorus
Salisbury Chamber Chorus is a group of 36 singers who perform at least 3 concerts a year. We have a wide repertoire from opera to oratorio and new music.
Salisbury Chamber Chorus Description
The 36-strong Salisbury Chamber Chorus, formed in 2011, is an ensemble with a difference. Spanning the operatic and choral repertoires, its hallmark is a committed, full-bodied sound that brings a varied programme of music excitingly to life.
Our concerts - at least three per year - take place in Salisbury and further afield, some by invitation. Imaginative programming spins audiences from evenings of opera (Wagner and Puccini, for example) to new works (McEnery’s Space Time Matter Energy), via choral classics (Verdi's Requiem) and charity fundraisers (A German Christmas).
We regularly engage soloists and instrumentalists, including singers from WNO and ENO, and the celebrated orchestra, La Folia.
Never predictable, never dull, Chamber Chorus concerts already have a regular - and growing - band of followers. If you’d like to hear about future events, please join our mailing list here. And if you’d like us to sing at your event, please contact us via our website.
Keen to help local charities, the Chorus has so far raised £2000 for the Sheriff of Wiltshire's chosen charity in 2017, Community First; nearly £1000 for the Alabaré Centre; £1000 for Salisbury District Hospital’s Pembroke Unit; £500 for the Breast Cancer Unit; over £700 for the Salisbury Hospice; and has supported other local charities including the Trussell Trust through ‘donating’ concerts. In 2018 we are be supporting Morning Star Salisbury.
If you’re interested in joining us, we’re often on the look-out for confident singers with at least a good basic technique, and at least competent sight-reading and general theory knowledge. To request an audition, you can contact us via our website. Please understand we generally have a waiting list.