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

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Looking for a choir to join? We're especially looking for tenors and a 2nd bass at the moment, and of course upper voices are always welcome to apply!

 

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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

Listen to the Lambs – Salford concert a great success

05/03/2019 13:45
The Manchester Chorale gave a joint concert with St Philip’s RC Primary School Choir on Saturday 2nd March 2019 to resounding appreciation by the large audience. It was an opportunity for the...

Happy New Year

15/01/2019 17:35
As usual for The Manchester Chorale, December was a busy month with scarcely time to rehearse. We started on the 8th December with Navidad Nuestra in Didsbury Baptist Church. We must have got...

Navidad Nuestra – what are we singing?

19/10/2018 12:29
Navidad Nuestra and other Christmas songs from around the world Didsbury Baptist Church, 8th December 2018,7:30pm The centrepiece of our concert is Navidad Nuestra (Our Nativity) composed by Ariel...

Sing Joyfully – together

29/05/2018 16:15
The Manchester Chorale welcomes Kent Chamber Choir and Musical Director Alan Vincent to Manchester to sing in a joint concert at St Ann’s Church in Central Manchester on Saturday 16th June and in a...

WW1 Centenary Commemoration Concert

06/02/2018 16:56
Bury Parish Church, 24th March 2018, 7:30pm The Manchester Chorale are fortunate to have a composer in their midst. Chris O’Hara has taken four poems from First World War female poets and set them to...

Christmas has passed, our thanks to John, new music

31/01/2018 17:40
Well Christmas was hectic – four concerts in two weeks, three of those at the Bridgewater in the week up to Christmas Eve. Lesley had her photo taken with Alan Titchmarsh; the fire alarm went off at...

Another composer in the Chorale

11/12/2017 11:17
It seems we have another composer in our midst. Tenor Justin Evans has just taken third prize in the 2017 Nantwich Carol Composition Competition with his rendition of Past Three O'Clock. The...

The Christmas Story

23/11/2017 13:04
St Clement's Church, Chorlton, M21 9JF. Saturday, 9th December 2017 at 7:30 pm. The Manchester Chorale will be presenting The Christmas Story, a charity Christmas concert in music and words for all...

Adiemus and The Armed Man

22/11/2017 16:25
We are just recovering after our second concert with Sir Karl Jenkins. A 2-hour rehearsal followed by a 2-hour concert is very wearing – not so much on the voice, but on the knees. The choir gets to...

We’re going to be busy!

14/09/2017 17:02
Before our summer break, we performed three great concerts. The first two were joint concerts with Koor Acantus from Belgium. This was a reciprocal visit after our tour to Antwerp last October. The...
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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
Tickets can be reserved here

 

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