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. We celebrated our 21^st birthday at the end of November.

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 January or 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.

We are currently rehearsing Haydn's Nelson Mass and Handel's Coronation Anthems.

Our most recent concert was held on July 9^th when we gave the second performance of a new piece called Miserere by Rebecca Jayne Clarke, a Final-year student at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. This was written especially for us and choir, soloists and instrumentalists from the College as part of her final assessment. It was a great success and bore comparison with the other works in the concert. Unfortunately, production difficulties meant that the programme we had devleoped was not available on the day but we have now put it online. You can watch a clip from the first performance on YouTube too.

In January 2011 we performed the Fauré Requiem and Mendelssohn's Athalia. Athaliais an adaptation of Racine's play Athalie. We developed a new English translation of the narration but the choral numbers were sung in German. It was of our most succcessful concerts ever!

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.