GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT HARROGATE CHORAL SOCIETY

Our President and Principal guest conductor is Brian Kay, ex-Kings singer and well known broadcaster, and under his baton we have performed Handel's "Messiah", Mozart's "Requiem" and Bach's "Mass in B Minor". We were also been fortunate to have Jeffrey Wynn Davies as our Music Director for 14 years.

Since September 2005 we have been enjoying lively and musically educational rehearsals with Andrew Padmore, our new Music Director and conductor. We are looking forward to more hard work and good fun in the 2008-2009 season.

We engage professional soloists and for the past five years have been lucky enough to be of help to Making Music Yorkshire (Serving Yorkshire & The Humber) by providing administrative support for their annual audition day which has for the past few years taken place in Harrogate. The event, the aim of which is to encourage young emerging singers by offering opportunities for them to sing at selected concerts.

For most of our concerts we are accompanied by professional orchestras, such as Manchester Camerata, Chameleon Arts Orchestra, Amici Ensemble, The Fine Arts Brass Ensemble, His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts and the band of the Royal Marines, Scotland.

We were recently honoured to enrol Terry Bramall as our Patron, we hope he will enjoy his association with us through our joint love of music.