Welcome to
Fleetwood & District Choral SocietyIf you enjoy singing, come along and join our rehearsal to see what it’s like!
Welcome to Fleetwood Choral Society
Rehearsals restart on Friday 5th January, 7:30pm at Trinity Baptist Church
We will be starting work on the programme for our May concert, details of which will be announced shortly
We are a friendly & welcoming choir…
One aim of the Society is “To offer training in choral singing whilst exploring a wide repertoire of choral music and promoting the appreciation and enjoyment of singing”. We hope that we are achieving that aim.
Thanks to everyone who attended our performance celebrating English Choral Music. This is our choir singing ‘Ave Verum’ – by Mozart at Rossall Chapel in April, It was a thrilling concert.
take a look at our
Choirs Performances
Our 50th anniversary concert was held on Saturday 16th November 2019 at the Marine Hall where we performed Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast and Last Night of the Proms. We were joined by the Youth Choir, Rossall School Chapel Choir and Sinfonia North West. A great night had by all, thanks to everyone who supported us.
Photos from the concert can be seen on the Gallery page
Below are links to the video clips
coronation concert
Video clips of our latest Coronation Concert
on April 22nd 2023
We regularly perform major sacred
choral works:
Oratorios such as Messiah Handel, Creation Haydn, requiems by Mozart, Brahms and Faure, the glorias of Rutter and Vivaldi and masses by established composers. Additionally, we like to offer our audiences other great music from the choral repertory: Hubert Parry’s Blest pair of sirens, Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast and Mendelssohn’s Hear My Prayer have recently been performed.
In our range of musical styles we include popular opera choruses such as Verdi: March of the Hebrew Slaves, the Anvil Chorus and also popular songs and arrangements of Let’s Do It Cole Porter, Bridge Over Troubled Water Paul Simon, I Got Rhythm George and Ira Gershwin and The Way We Were Marvin Hamlisch.
We currently have over 60 members singing standard SATB parts and perform concerts throughout the year with an invited professional orchestra and soloists performing a wide range of works.
This is our choir singing ‘Zadok the Priest’.
The Committee
President: His Worship the Mayor of Wyre
The Society is run by a committee of members who meet monthly.
The Chair is elected to serve for a period of 2 years.
Chair: Ann McCarthy
Vice Chair: Vacant
Secretary: Di Stenson
Treasurer: Paul Raynor
Musical Director: Kevin Morgan
Accompanist: David Chadwick
Patrons: Bernadette Hayes
Publicity: Malcolm Maclean
Librarian: Suan Crackles
Concert logistics officer: Helen Mair
Tenor/bass rep: Neal Thornton
Social Committee Chair: Kath Burn
Web/printing: Sue Woodhouse
Dr. Kevin Morgan
BA, MA, PhD, FRCO, FISM, Hon.FNMSM, LRAM, LTCL
Kevin Morgan began to play the piano at the age of three. A Music Scholar at school, he was awarded his Grade Eight in Piano, Organ, Singing, Theory and General Musicianship winning many National prizes for the highest marks in the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music examinations. At the age of nine, he started playing the organ and in his first term at secondary school, he played for Choral Evensong accompanying the School Choir in Salisbury Cathedral. Along with O and A levels, he passed a Performers Diploma on the piano before going up to read for a Degree in Music at University College, Durham as an Organ Scholar.
Having studied extensively in Durham, London, Oxford and Cambridge, he moved to Bolton in 1986 to become Organist and Choirmaster at the Parish Church. In addition, he taught both the piano and the organ at Bolton School Girls’ Division and increased his musical experiences performing, accompanying and directing many diverse and varied musical activities.
In time, he was appointed College Organist and Head of Keyboard at Stonyhurst College where he was also the Musical Director of the Schola Cantorum taking the Choir to sing annually in Blackburn Cathedral and the Ribchester Festival, singing at the Consecration of the Shrine of St Thomas in Hereford Cathedral, as well as undertaking two outstanding Choir Tours to Paris and Rome. He was additionally Master-in-charge of all the school Music Scholars and a Senior Tutor.
A Prize winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, a Fellow of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music and Trinity College of Music, London, he also holds Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate Degrees. He undertakes a variety of freelance work as Musical Director, Composer and Arranger in addition to playing Solo Concerts
on classical, theatre and electronic organs and the piano.
He has played in many major organ festivals, directed choirs, choral and operatic societies, accompanied many singers in cabaret, played for ballroom and sequence dancing, performed as a Soloist and as a Musical Director on cruises and was a regular contributor to “The Organist Entertains” programme on BBC Radio Two where he was twice the featured artist.
He was the annually elected Patron of the Theatre Organ Club for both 2005 and 2011.
In April 2007, he, along with Len Rawle and the late Doreen Chadwick gave the reopening Concert on the Granada Tooting Wurlitzer Organ before an audience of over one thousand people. This event was both filmed by ATOS – later released as a DVD – and broadcast on
the BBC.
In April 2009, he was made an Honorary Fellow of The North and Midlands School of Music and from the early Summer of the same year, he was appointed Academic Registrar of the School. He is also a Patron of the Ashton Hall Restoration Project at Lancaster Town Hall where he played one of the two Recitals marking the Centenary of the Organ in July 2009.
He has recorded commercial CDs on Compton, Wurlitzer and Moller Theatre Organs and
the piano.
Would you like to sing with us?
Come along and see what we do and who we are!!
All voices welcome and no audition required.
Practices take place on Friday evenings 7:30 – 9:30
at Trinity Baptist Church, Poulton Rd, Fleetwood, FY7 7AW.
We meet from September to June and the fees are £100 split into two payments of £50 in September and £50 in January.
Full time students are FREE.
Payment may be spread for convenience, please complete the information below.
Rehearsal
Trinity Baptist Church
206 Poulton Road
Fleetwood,FY7 7LB
Contact Info
Rehearsal Time
Friday 7:30pm – 9:30pm