We are a large, non-auditioned choir that has performed a wide and varied repertoire from Mozart to Tavener for over 120 years.  We aspire to a high musical standard and aim to thrill our concert audiences.  Under our Principal Conductor, Leo Hussain, and joined by professional musicians such as the renowned chamber orchestra London Concertante, we perform three concerts a year in the Newbury area.  Our regular venues are St. Nicolas Church, Newbury and the beautiful Abbey Church at Douai Abbey, Woolhampton.

We hope you enjoy browsing our website and look forward to welcoming you at our rehearsals or at our next concert .

Newbury Choral Society, ran its annual workshop "From Allegri to Victoria : European Sacred Music" on 10 February 2007. For more information, click here.

Leo Hussain, Principal Conductor

Our 2007 – 2008 season of concerts

Newbury Choral Society's 2007 – 2008 season promises to bring a year of great music to our audiences.  Building on our recent innovative programming, our December concert featured performances of two twentieth century works:  the female section of the choir sang Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, while the men performed Duruflé's Messe cum Jubilo. We know that our audiences love to sing at Christmas too so there were carols for congregation and choir. 

Our April 2008 concert featured a work that is, in the words of our Principal Conductor, Leo Hussain, the 'high point of European artistic achievement up to 1750'.  Bach's St. Matthew Passion was sung in German and played on baroque instruments so that our audience could experience this supremely powerful music as Bach himself conceived it.

Our third concert of the season at Douai Abbey in June 2008 will mark the 50^th anniversary of the death of one of England's best-loved composers, Vaughan Williams.  We will be performing a varied programme of some of his most beautiful choral and orchestral works, including Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Five Mystical Songs and Fantasia on Greensleeves.

We hope that you will be inspired to join us for this series of exciting musical events.

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Concert Feedback

...the performances were remarkably successful, a tribute to the excellent conducting of Leo Hussain

allowed the choral society to demonstrate their immense vocal range...
Eileen Caster, Newbury Weekly News. Full review, click here

Leo Hussain conducts sublime singing and strong orchestral playing...
Derek Ansell, Newbury Weekly News. Full review, click here

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