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
Our next Concert
will be
A May Serenade
Featuring the music of Haydn & Mozart – Ave Verum & Solemn Vespers
At 7:30pm Saturday 4th May 2024
at St Mary’s RC Church, Lord St., Fleetwood
Further information on the Concert & Events page
Goodbye to our MD Kevin Morgan
Sadly, our Musical Director, Kevin Morgan, has decided to step down from his post due to pressure of other commitments and he feels now is the time to move on. We are very grateful for his hard work with the Society over the last 3 years. Having taken up the MD post in 2020, he got us back singing after our 18 month break during the Covid pandemic and we have successfully performed our last 7 concerts under his guidance. We wish him well in his future endeavours.
Due to Kevin’s departure
we are looking for
A New MD
We are looking for someone who has:
Experience of conducting an SATB choir and directing an orchestra.
A wide musical knowledge, good communication skills with a sense of humour
If you are interested in becoming our new Musical Director please send an email stating your interest and including your CV to info@fleetwoodchoral.org.uk
The closing date for applications is
19th April 2024
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.
Summer Concert
Would you like to sing in our concert with us?
Our summer concert this year will be held on
Friday 28th June, 7:30pm at
Trinity Baptist Church, Poulton Rd., Fleetwood
We are inviting anyone who would like to try choral singing to come and join us in our informal summer concert. Rehearsals will start on 10th May at Trinity Baptist Church and are held on Friday nights from 7:30 to 9.30pm. There will be no auditions, no membership charge and all music supplied. We are a friendly group and will make you very welcome!
The programme will include extracts from our past and current repertoire, European Sacred Music, well known Opera choruses, and popular melodies from folk songs to musicals.
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
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