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The Choir was founded over 150 years ago. Many fine musicians have sung in this choir the most famous of them Dame Nellie Melba whose father David Mitchell built the church in 1874.
Nowadays the choir consists of 26 singers made up of four Principals, an Associate Principal, 10 Choral Scholars, 3 Junior Choral Scholars and others who just love to sing.
The choir's repertoire is wide, ranging from Italian Renaissance polyphony, through the Baroque and Romantic eras and into the 21st Century. We often perform new works. A special delight is taken in the performance of the great early 20th Century English composers, Bairstow, Howells, Vaughan Williams, Parry and others of that period.
The choir sings in church every Sunday morning from the first Sunday in February until Christmas Day and gives annual performances of the Bach St. John Passion on Good Friday and Handel’s Messiah just before Christmas. Two recent CDs have sold well. A third CD of hymns entitled Food for Life’s Journey is being prepared.
The Director of Music welcomes enquiries from those wishing to audition for a place in the choir.
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