Welcome

We are are thriving and ambitious community choir based in Canton, a district of Cardiff, the capital of Wales in the UK. The Choir was formed in February 1990 under the musical direction of John Abraham. John is the only person still involved in the choir who was there at the beginning but one of the altos joined about three weeks later

As a community choir we are open to everybody. We are particularly in need of tenors (as are most choirs). We already have a number of female tenors and would welcome more. No audition is required and you don't have to be able to read music, although that helps obviously. Just turn up at the Canton Uniting Church on Cowbridge Road in Canton at 19:45 on a Wednesday in term time and make yourself known so that we can seat you in the right section.

We generally sing two concerts a year, in February and July, typically. The winter concert is usually of a large cantata with professional soloists, accompanied by an accomplished orchestra made up of players from the city's professional orchestras. The summer concert is usually made up of smaller works such as part songs and may include solos from members of the choir.

Our most recent concert was held on 2010-07-10. It was a a journey through Western sacred music from Monteverdi to Kodály in St John the Evangelist in Canton.

The Winter Concert will be held in the first few weeks of 2011. We will perform the Fauré Requiem and Mendelssohn's Athalia. Athalia is an adaptation of Racine's play Athalie. We hope to develop a new English translation of the narration but the choral numbers will be sung in German. Rehearsals will begin on August 8^th.

This website aims to help both the members of the choir and those who are interested in attending the choir's concerts or supporting the choir in some other way. It is divided into three sections: Member Pages—pages of direct interest to to members & would-be members but open to all, Choir Supporters—pages describing the upcoming events and ways in which non-members can help the choir and About This Site—pages describing the design ethos of the site and how best to use it.

There is now a third use: to raise funds for the choir. As a first step we have become an Amazon Associate. This means that if you use the link shown below to buy anything from Amazon then the choir will receive a cut of the purchase price.