Next concert:  
27th November ‘10
Faure’s “Requiem”,
Jenkins’ “Gloria” and
Chilcott’s “A Little Jazz Mass”

The Great Hall of
Lancaster University


(see Concerts)

This is Lancaster’s largest four-part choir, having over hundred and ten registered singing members.

The Choral Society can trace its musical history back over 175 years when it was known as Lancaster & District Musical Society.

The choir has performed a great variety of works over its history from Mozart to Elgar, Brahms to The Beatles, as well as contemporary composers, John Rutter, Karl Jenkins and Cole Porter. Handel’s Messiah is performed every two years in the autumn.

At the spring and alternate autumn concerts the Society endeavours  to widen its repertoire of choral music.  In these main concerts a full orchestra and professional soloists always support the choir and are normally held in the Ashton Hall, Lancaster. Although, from November 2009 some concerts will be held in the Great Hall in the University of Lancaster.

In December, a Traditional Carol concert is held in the Ashton Hall, Lancaster and this location will be maintained for the near future.

The programme for this concert includes both well loved and modern carols and Christmas music and we are joined by Morecambe Brass Band giving that traditional northern Christmas mood.

In March 2010 Ripley St. Thomas Choir were joined by the Choral Society for a performance of  “Carmina Burana”.

(see “Concerts”)

John Perrin is the Society’s Musical Director and has been responsible for introducing the many challenging works that the choir now performs.

The Choral Society were honoured
to announce in 2006 the appointment, as President of the Choral Society, the Internationally renown tenor Thomas Round.