Next concert:  
21st April 2012
Spring Concert
“The Best of British”

The Great Hall, Lancaster University.

(see ‘concerts’ for full programme)

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 170 years when it was known as Lancaster & District Musical Society.  The Choral Society will be celebrating its 175th Anniversary during the season 2011/12.

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 normally performed every two years in the autumn, although the next not until November 2012.  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 were normally held in the Ashton Hall, Lancaster. However, from November 2009 the “main” concerts are being held in the Great Hall in the University of Lancaster.

In December, a Traditional Carol concert is held in the Ashton Hall, Lancaster where it has been performed for over 47 years and this will be maintained for the future.

The programme for this concert includes both well loved and modern carols and Christmas music.

Last year, 2010, we were joined for the first time by the award winning Longridge Brass Band, and by Ripley Saint Thomas Choirs.  A new soloist joined us : soprano Kirstie MacLean.

We  were also proud to bring into our concert the  Drama Factory which provide confidence building drama training for children and young adults.  

All in all, this concert was deemed to be one of the best Christmas Carol Concerts for some years.

This year, 2011, the Society, as the L&D Chorale, are undertaking a short tour of Hampshire

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