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We are an aspiring group of over eighty singers who enjoy getting together to make music. Covering a wide spectrum of ages and life experiences, we are friendly and helpful to old hands and newcomers alike.
Our three concerts a year have been transformed with the orchestral and operatic experience of our Musical Director, Alexander Walker, and the high standards he expects from us.
Workshop March 2007
led by David Owen Norris
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Two workshops each year are led by trained musicians to help improve our singing skills. We perform with excellent professional soloists, and have enjoyed working with leading orchestras. We have taken part with other local choirs in festivals at Althorp and in the Derngate Theatre, Northampton. We are prepared to tackle new works: we commissioned and performed David Fisher’s Requiem and gave the world première performance of Alan Charlton’s Jubilate Deo. If you would like to collaborate with us please e-mail our Chairman, Keith Hide.
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We are a well-known choir in Daventry and district and welcome the opportunity to work with other choirs and groups. In February 2009, we sang Verdi’s Requiem with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Northampton Bach Choir and at the end of November we sang Beethoven's Choral Symphony with them again. We were delighted to be invited by Owain Arwel Hughes to join him in June 2010 in a Grand Opera Gala at the Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Choral Society and Northampton Bach Choir.
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Daventry Choral Society has been actively lobbying for a concert hall in the town. Although not as large as we had hoped, we are hoping that the iCon Centre, a conference and enterprise facility, now being built in the town, may provide concert facilities. We continue to lobby to ensure any new concert facilities will have acoustics appropriate to our needs and the needs of other arts and culture groups in Daventry.
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