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APPLICATION FORMS

JOIN THE CHOIRS
Southend Boys' and Girls' Choirs always welcome new members, and the start of the term is an ideal time to join, and remember there are no joining or membership fees for any of the Southend Choirs.  The choirs cater for all ages and experiences, from the youngest Step Up Choir to the 4 – part harmony senior choirs.

•    Step Up Choir (ages 6 – 8/9)  This small and informal group meets weekly on Wednesdays during term time, 3.45 – 4.30 at St Mary’s C of E Primary School.

•    Southend Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs
Both choirs are accepting new members aged 8/9 upwards. There is no membership or joining fees provided you are accepted, and members will have the chance to sing with the choirs at major venues during the year.

Girls’ Choir – Meets Wednesdays 4.15 – 5.45 at Southend High School for Girls.
Boys’ Choir – Meets Fridays 4 – 5.15 (trebles and altos) at Westcliff High School for Boys.

•    Southend Young Men’s Chorus- Meets Fridays 4.45 – 5.45 at Westcliff High School for Boys.
This group is particularly suited to boys with changing voices, and meets on Fridays within the Boys’ Choir rehearsals.

•    Chorus Sirenum – Chamber choir for older girls’ voices, and meets mainly on Sundays. Email hannahwallen@blueyonder.co.uk

The choirs have concert tours every year, and in recent years have performed in Rome, Venice and in Canada and US. The choirs offer wonderful opportunities to keen young singers from Southend and beyond and 2018 will see them singing in Australia and Hong Kong. 

Future engagements

Saturday 7th July, 3pm Southend Bandstand,Priory Park,Southend Young Men’s Chorus will be performing as guests of the Southend Brass Ensemble in a free afternoon concert.

Saturday 13th July at 7.30 pm
Some of the singers will join with Southend Choral Society at the Plaza Centre in Southchurch Road for A Night at the Musicals.

Monday 15th July

at 1pm members of the Southend Girls’ Choir will be performing a lunchtime concert in London’s beautiful church of St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square.  This is a free concert.

Saturday 20^th July

7.30pm – Kings Road UR Church – Summer Concert.

https://southendchoirs6.bpt.me/

Summer Tour 2019

This year In July the choirs are off on a week long concert tour to Spain when they will be performing in Barcelona Cathedral, Montserrat and in Taragona.   

Welcome to the official website for the Southend on Sea Boys' and Girls' Choirs
This site showcases the choirs recent achievements, with new updated biographies on the Boys and Girls choirs. Just click on the navigation bar above.  A photo and video Gallery captures on film the visits abroad and special events and is linked to popular photo site Flickr and our Facebook pages.

The media area is also where you can sample the choirs recorded work as well as streaming audio and video of their most recent appearances. Our Discography page which will feature the full list of recordings on which the choir have featured. On the media audio download page, listeners can sample a short extract from each recording listed.  Take a listen to the Choirs rich musical history. In addition there is a section devoted to forthcoming events and links to other sites of interest. Southend on Sea is twinned with Sopot, Poland, where the choir performed in 2002 and 2005.

Our archive contains Previous Concerts as well as Choir Tours and our Discography.

Conductor:
Roger Humphrey Tel: 01702 215623
Accompanist:
Rosemary Pennington Tel: 01702-215624
Mobile: 07771 600009    Fax: 01702 215631

P.O. Box 6,
Civic Centre, Victoria Avenue,
Southend on Sea, Essex. SS2 6ER.

Boys' Choir President - Bob Chilcott

Girls' Choir President - Jonathan Willcocks
Boys' and Girls' Choirs Patron- Raymond Gubbay, CBE.
We are a registered

charity No: 1161752

 L I T T L E  S I N G E R S

The latest addition to the Southend Choirs’ Family is “Little Singers”. Now our youngest singers, aged 3 – 6 with their parents or carers can join the Southend Choirs. Funded by the Ragdoll Foundation, this new group will meet weekly to introduce some fun singing and music making to young families.  

Please see below for details.

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Our rehearsal for Music Makes Magic on Monday 15th April at the Royal Albert Hall

The Girls Choir pose beside the memorial at the Royal Albert Hall.

  Privacy Notice

Southend Choirs hold information on current members of the choir and contact details for parents and carers for reasons of safeguarding and personal protection of all singers in their care.

This information is stored securely and is not shared with other parties unless required for licence purposes for public performances, such as BBC and other concert promoters.  On these occasions parents will be notified of this.

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    Choirs are also on Twitter

Southend Boys and Girls Choirs have now a moderated twitter page @southendchoirs - so come on follow us and lets get tweetiing!  just click on the twitter link above.

Latest Newsletter is now available click below

Summer 2019 Newsletter

   Photo highlights from the recent Collabro concert at the Cliffs Pavilion

our performance of "Electricity" from Billy Elliot from the recent Collabro concert.

Our latest Jack Petchey Achievement Award winners – Heidi Hoxha, Nico Nowotarski and Dexter Legon with Mayor Cllr John Lamb – May 2019