Welcome to

South Somerset Choral Society

The critic's review of the Mozart & Salieri concert performed 23rd March is now available by clicking here

Dates for your diary: Please see the Membership tab

Could prospective new singers please note that positions in the choir for sopranos and altos is at present very limited. Tenors and Basses are actively encouraged to come along and join us.

The Society was formed over 40 years ago and has staged concerts at least twice a year ever since. They usually take place in December and March or April. There are also other special public events and several social events during the year which will be published on this web site and also advertised to choir members at rehearsals. 

Further details of forthcoming concerts can be found on the "Next Concert" tab

For details of 100 club winners, please click here

 

Tim Donaldson (Musical Director)

Tim began singing as a boy chorister in Canterbury Cathedral. After University in Leeds (where he was choirmaster and deputy organist at the Anglican Chaplaincy Church) he joined BBC Radio as an Engineer, working in London, Bristol and finally, Luton, where he sang in many choirs. He was a member of a professional church choir in London and, as a member of the Corydon Singers, recorded Rachmaninov’s “Vespers” amongst other things. As a soloist, he sang the part of Pilate in the Somerset Chamber Choir’s performance of Bach’s “St John Passion” alongside Emma Kirkby, but has also made solo appearances with the North Curry Village Choir, Taunton Concert Band and South Somerset Choral Society. He conducted the Wingrave Singers (near Aylesbury) and, after a move to commercial radio in Bristol, Nailsea Choral Society for eight years. A founder member of the Somerset Chamber Choir, he conducts an occasional choir – the Somerset Consort - which performs in venues by invitation. He was appointed Assistant Musical Director of the South Somerset Choral Society in 2008, and has now succeeded Richard Barrell as Musical Director. He lives at Drayton, near Langport, with his wife Karen and their two children.

 

Rehearsal accompanist Shirley Long

 

 

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This page was last updated on March 28, 2013 11:26 AM