The Manchester Chorale is a busy, high-quality, auditioned, mixed SATB choir based in Manchester, UK

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In 2020, to celebrate our 40th anniversary, we commissioned a Choral Composition Competition. We were finally able to perform the top three at St Ann's Church, Manchester on 2 July 2022. Here are the Winners

 

 

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Coming next:

On Saturday 7 December we'll be singing in Didsbury Baptist Church, at 3:00pm. Tickets available here.


Previously...

 
Previously, we opened our 2024/25 concert season at St Margaret's Prestwich:
 
On Saturday 29 July 2024 we were at Emmanuel Church, Didsbury 
 
 
On Saturday 18 May wesang at Wilmslow United reformed Church.
We had a great time singing with Sir Karl Jenkins in the Bridgewater Hall for the final concert of his 80th birthday tour
 
On Saturday 2 March 2024 we were at the church of St Mary the Virgin in a joint concert with Bowdon School Choir. 

 

We had a blast at the Bridgewater Hall on Christmas Eve with Jonathan Cohen and Louise Dearman. 
 

Our Christmas concert was a joint event with Besses o'th' Barn Band, at St Bernadette's Whitefield

 
We launched our 2023/24 season with an evening of Simply Sublime Music at the Bridge Church, Otley
Our 2022/23 season finale was at St Paul's Withington
An evening of choral music at the priory church of Bolton Abbey
 

 

An evening with Silk Brass and Macclesfield Youth Brass Band
"Knick Knack Paddy Whack" with the children of Springfield Primary School

 

News

St Ann's Concert

02/07/2022 19:30
A wonderful concert with much anticipated world premieres of our 40th anniversary choral composition competition winner and runners up.

St Bernadette's Concert

14/03/2022 12:44
£500 raised from a fabulous audience!

Singing to Support Community Projects

28/01/2022 16:18
A group of volunteers are organising many different activities in order to renovate and modernise St Bernadette’s social centre.  The Chorale is very happy to be supporting their...

Christmas at The Bridgewater Hall

08/11/2021 12:15
We're involved in two Raymond Gubbay Christmas Concerts this year! First, it's Grand Christmas Classics with Alan Titchmarsh, scheduled for Monday 20th December at 7.30pm. Then it's the wonderful...

"It was a lovely day", said Will Todd

05/03/2020 12:36
"It was a lovely day", said Will Todd, after having rehearsed his Mass in Blue with us.

A Concert so unique we are presenting it twice!

10/02/2020 14:11
  A highlight of The Manchester Chorale’s 40th Anniversary Year, we are singing Mass in Blue composed by Will Todd in 2003 , featuring Soprano soloist Elizabeth Woods and accompanied by a Jazz...

Style, passion and class coming up - brass and voices

27/11/2019 10:42
Saturday 14th December 2019, St Edward's RC Church, Lees, Oldham OL4 5AJ The Manchester Chorale is looking forward to presenting a joint concert with the Boarshurst Silver band, which is suitably...

Our 40th season kicks off – in Liverpool!

10/10/2019 16:02
The first concert, Hail Gladdening Light, in the Manchester Chorale’s 40th season was held in Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral. The very appreciative audience didn’t quite fill (!) the 2300...

The Manchester Chorale on the road

05/06/2019 17:32
The end of May saw the Manchester Chorale going further afield than we usually do. As the guests of the Kent Chamber Choir, we spent a long weekend in Kent, the highlight being a joint concert on the...

Cawthorne 2019 – a typical Chorale programme

15/05/2019 10:32
This is what we sang to a very appreciative audience on Saturday 11th May 2019. We finished off the concert with an encore of My Lord What a Morning and then all dashed home over the Woodhead pass....
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Our Musical Director

 

Jill Henderson-Wild has been with us since 2006.

Her biographical notes are in the People page.

Our Assistant Musical Director

Dave Robinson

See the People page for more details

2024 Concert Dates:

 

  • 7 December 2024, 3:00pm, at Didsbury Baptist Church
  • 24 December 2024, 3:00pm in the Bridgewater Hall
  • 15 March 2025, 7:30pm, with Bury Youth Big Band at Bury Parish Church
  • 10 May 2025, 7:30pm, with the Master Singers at All Saints Parish Church, Cawthorne
  • 5 July 2025, 7:30pm, at the Bridge Church, Otley
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