Welcome to the University of Manchester Chorus website!
The University Chorus is a non-auditioning choir with a membership of over 250 students, staff and alumni of the University of Manchester as well as members from the wider community of Manchester and beyond.
Now in our 75th season, we have exciting plans to continue our successes from last season. Chorus’ ambitious choices of programme paid off spectacularly in 2009-2010, with two sell-out concerts of Vaughan-Williams’ Sea Symphony in December 2009 and the highly successful concerts of Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass in May 2010.
Our first concert of the 2010-2011 season is our Winter Concert on December 4th and 5th in the spectacular setting of the University of Manchester’s Whitworth Hall – a setting suitable for the monumental scale of Haydn’s Creation. In our Spring Concert in May we intend to present an evening of twentieth-century American music. University Chorus will perform John Adams’ Harmonium alongside the Manchester University Symphony Orchestra who will perform Copland’s Symphony No. 3.
It is also my pleasure to announce the creation of a new, smaller and auditioned choir, a joint project of the University of Manchester Music Department and University Chorus. In its inaugural season this choir will perform as a subsidiary of the main Chorus, being made up entirely of Chorus members and contributing to the Chorus concert experience. They will be performing Schoenberg’s Friede auf Erde as a pre-concert performance in December and Barber’s Agnus Dei as part of the all-American programme in May.
This is an incredibly exciting time for Chorus and it is my pleasure to welcome back Robert Houssart as our conductor and musical director.
The University of Manchester Chorus Committee Team and I look forward to you joining us for our forthcoming season, be it as a performer or an audience member. If you have any questions or queries about Chorus or our concerts, please email us at chorus@universitychorus.org.uk.
Seb Huckle, Chorus President 2010-2011
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