Ashford Choral Society
Ashford Choral Society was founded in 1857 and currently has approximately 130 singers> It's musical director is Dr Mark Deller, who also directs the Stour Music Festival. The Society performs 3 or 4 concerts during the season September to March/April, accompanied by professional soloists and orchestra.
Recent works include Haydn's Creation, Verdi and Brahms Requiems, Elgar's The Music Makers, Handel's Messiah, Finzi's Intimations of Immortality. Rehearsals are on Tuesday evenings at Bank Street Church, 7.30-9.15 pm. New singers are very welcome. For more information please contact our Hon Secretary, Eunice Smith, on 01233 624843. or view the website www.ashfordchoral.org.uk
A recent review in the Kentish Express reads...."[the choir’s] tone was warm and rounded. They confidently illustrated Schütz’s ability to match text and notation ... The choir clearly enjoyed the exuberance of the piece [Rutter’s Gloria] and sang with gusto, managing the syncopated and changing time signatures."
05/102/04