Learn how to sing with the Harrogate Choral Society
Harrogate Choral Society (HCS) is a long-established, friendly, open age, mixed-voice choir of around 130 singers, based in the Spa town of Harrogate. We are also been fortunate in recent years to have several young voices singing with us. Our aim is always to be the finest choir in the area and we are encouraged and pushed to the highest standards of musical excellence by our musical leaders.
We actively welcome new recruits and accommodate new members into all of our sections. If you are an experienced singer, you will recognise that we are a high standard choir. If you are a novice singer looking to improve your standard and aspire to sing with us, we will support you to this level. We are sure you will find the experience and challenge of singing at this level invigorating, stimulating and rewarding ! We have a Membership Team who are there to support and encourage new (and existing) singers.
We actively welcome new recruits and accommodate new members into all of our sections. If you are an experienced singer, you will recognise that we are a high standard choir. If you are a novice singer looking to improve your standard and aspire to sing with us, we will support you to this level. We are sure you will find the experience and challenge of singing at this level invigorating, stimulating and rewarding ! We have a Membership Team who are there to support and encourage new (and existing) singers.
We rehearse from the beginning of September until our AGM in late June / early July with breaks of two to three weeks at Christmas and usually a week or two at Easter. We rehearse on Wednesday evenings from 7.30 to 9.30pm. Our rehearsal venue is the hall at Christ Church, Harrogate. Click here for our rehearsal schedule. There are normally four main concerts a year.
If you're interested in becoming a new member of the society, all you need to do is fill in the contact form at the bottom of this page, and one of our recruitment team will be in touch to arrange a suitable rehearsal for you to come to. To maintain the high standards demanded, adult membership of the choir is by (singer-friendly) voice assessment and we aim to do these within the first three rehearsals for a concert so depending on the timing of your query it might be necessary for you to wait until we start rehearsals for the next concert. In an ideal world we would hope you can sight read but more important are musicality, a quick ear and mind, and a voice suitable for choral singing.
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When I moved to Harrogate I was looking for a large friendly and energetic choir and I found the right one by joining HCS! They are a welcoming group of people from across the area and the rehearsals are a lot of fun under guidance of our very joyful conductor Andrew. The concerts we have done in Harrogate and Ripon have been fabulous - I look forward to the next one!
Annemarieke, Soprano
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After a break of 40 years since last singing as a soprano chorister, I was a little nervous about joining HCS in January 2019, but I have been made very welcome by everyone. The first 6 months have been a blast under our hugely entertaining musical director, Andrew Padmore, who combines top quality ability and experience with an inspirational approach. I have thoroughly enjoyed all the rehearsals and my first two concerts.
Richard, Tenor
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I had previously sung in a choir in school but on going to University other youthful pursuits took over. However once in the working world I found I missed my music and singing in a choir after work is a great way to both relax, engage my brain in something artistic and enjoyable and meet new people, working as a team to perform so many wonderful works. So I decided to join HCS and I really enjoy the range of music we sing from well known to more rarely performed pieces. I also really enjoy the level of challenge that we are constantly set; we recently sang a piece completely from memory and that is something I have always wanted to do - HCS has the quality and dedication to finally let me fulfil that ambition.
Alex, Bass
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