Welcome to Cosham Community Choir!

COVID-19 NOTICE

Please note that due to the current virus situation, and HM government guidelines, normal live choir rehearsals are suspended until further notice. We hope to welcome new members to the choir once it is safe and legal for us to meet again.

In the meantime a group of current members are meeting as a Zoom choir during term-time. It is hoped to present some of the music in a 'lockdown music' concert when performances are once more possible.

 

Information on the choir

Cosham Community Choir was started in January 2011 and is for anyone over the age of 14 who would like to sing. The mission of our seventy-plus members is simple - to make music entertaining, and to make entertaining music! Every rehearsal includes singing in a variety of styles, such as film scores, show tunes, classical, folk, and pop.

To show you the range of music we sing, here are some of the pieces we have performed in the past few years:

  • Show tunes: medleys from West Side Story, Miss Saigon
  • Popular songs: Sting's "Fields of Gold", the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann"
  • Sacred classical music: Vivaldi's Gloria, Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"
  • Secular / folk music: Henry VIII's "Pastime with good company", Holst's "My sweetheart's like Venus"
  • Spirituals: "Swing Low", "
  • Seasonal songs: "Walking in the Air" (from The Snowman), Rutter's "Colours of Christmas", carols

We welcome all voices and are particularly keen to encourage tenors, baritones and basses.

We rehearse every Monday from 19:15 until 21:00 during term time at the Cosham Baptist Church on Havant Road, Portsmouth. You can find directions and travel information at the Cosham Baptist Church website.

Membership of the choir costs £5 and each rehearsal is £4.50 per week or £15 per half term. If you would like to join the choir, simply turn up to one of our Monday rehearsals and give it a try. Your first session will be free! After that you can pay per session until you decide to become a member. Music for all the main choir items is loaned to members free of charge from our music library.

Full choir rehearsals are followed, at 21:00-21:30, by Choir Plus, a smaller group which tackles more challenging pieces. Attendance at Choir Plus is free for all choir members, and there are no auditions,  though we do ask members of this group to pay for their own music which they are then able to keep. Do give it a try and if you like it stay on for the extra half hour every week!

Performance Dates

Next Concert

Due to the current situation with Covid-19 all plans for future concerts are suspended

 

Previous concerts

Our  December 2019 concert was well received and included some festive pieces (Carol of the Bells, carols by John Rutter, Gaudete and Jingle Bells) and some popular music including a Queen medley and a selection to celebrate the Moon landings this year. The concert will include two solo song performances and a poetry reading by choir members.

Our chosen charity for this concert was the Sussex Snowdrop Trust who provide home nursing care for very seriously ill children, for whom we raised £608.

Our Summer 2019 concert was very popular and included a medley of Howard Goodall signature tunes (including the Vicar of Dibley), Somewhere Inside So Strong, I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free, and songs originally sung by John Denver and the Beach Boys. Our Choir Plus group sang some entertaining Hungarian Folk Songs and Adiemus by Karl Jenkins. The concert included solos by a singer, a pianist and a poetry recitation.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/CoshamCommunityChoir/videos/

Our chosen charity for this concert was Southern Domestic Abuse Service for whom we raised £823.

 

 

Our Christmas concert in December 2018 was very well received and included music by Abba, John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Stephen Sondheim, a festive medley and a Christmas piece composed by a member of the choir. See our Facebook page for video clips of this concert

Our chosen charity for this concert was Friends Without Borders for whom we raised £810.72.

 

Contact

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