Bournemouth Symphony Chorus

The Bournemouth Symphony Chorus has a membership of around 160 singers, and gives the majority of its concerts with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

The chorus has also been engaged to sing with other orchestras, including the National Youth Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Wales and the Academy of London.

Conductors with whom we have appeared include Marin Alsop, Yakov Kreizberg, Richard Hickox, Tamas Vasary, Andrew Litton, Mark Elder, Wayne Marshall, Kees Bakels, Jiri Kout, David Hill, Richard Armstrong, Paul Daniel and Grant Llewellyn.

We also give regular concerts independently, either a capella or with organ or ensembles.

Choral music survey

Thank you to all those who completed the choral music survey at our concert on Saturday 10th November.  If you would like to see the graphical results please click HERE

A new rehearsal and engagement schedule was published on 15th July 08.  Members should log in and access it from the Documents Downloads area.

BSC  tour to Prague and Brno

The BSC visit the Czech Republic  on 20 August, with a lunchtime concert in Prague on Friday 22 August conducted by Greg Beardsell; and a concert at Spilberk Castle in Brno with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Richard Blackford.  The programme for this concert is

Blackford - Mirror of Perfection
Janacek - The Cunning Little Vixen - suite
Dvorak - Te Deum.

We are performing the Verdi Requiem next!

We are particularly interested in hearing from Tenors and basses who would like to audition and join us for this amazing work which we will start to prepare in September for the performance with the BSO on Wednesday 29th October.  If you are interested why not click on 'Join Us' now at the top of this page and complete an on-line application?