The BRADFORD CHORALE rehearse at Northcliffe Church, Hall Royd, Shipley, BD18 3ED from 7.30 to 9.30 p.m, with a refreshment break partway, on Tuesday evenings.

COME AND JOIN US Whether you are singer with many years experience, a complete beginner or somewhere in between but with a passion for choral music, we would love to meet you. Come along on a Tuesday evening and see how you get on. There is no audition to join the choir and our Musical Director has extensive experience, and boundless enthusiasm for developing singing voices.

The choir started life in 1976 as The James Ashworth Singers giving its first concert in Thornton Parish Church in April 1976. It later moved to the Unitarian Church near St Luke's hospital to be more central for members coming from around the Bradford area.

We are privileged to have worked with many highly accomplished Musical Directors including: James Ashworth, Douglas Robinson, John Coates, Tricia Platts, Carleton Etherington, Andrew Dibb, Elizabeth Altman, John Griffiths, Christopher Rathbone, Paul Dewhurst, Jonathan Eyre, Jon Payne, Dr Ed Jones, Tom Carr, Jenny Martins, Caius Lee and now Ben Finlay.

Our repertoire is wide and varied from a backbone of traditional liturgical music and oratorios by composers such as Haydn, Vivaldi, Faure, Mendelssohn, and Mozart, to madrigals, part-songs, opera choruses, contemporary choral polyphony and arranged pieces spanning the centuries and embracing a wide variety of styles. The choir performs regularly at venues in and around Bradford including Bradford Cathedral, Bradford Grammar School, Bradford Girl's Grammar School, St Paul's Church and St Peter's Church both in Shipley, Victoria Hall in Saltaire and St Anne's Church in Keighley. The choir has enjoyed collaborating with great soloists and orchestras such as James Laing (counter tenor), Wendy Goodson (soprano), The Mowbray Orchestra. The Sinfonia of Leeds, Airedale Symphony Orchestra and Skipton Camerata.

The choir has a regular singing strength currently of around 35 voices several of whom have been members since the founding of the choir. We are always keen to recruit new voices in all parts and applications from new singing members will always be welcomed.

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The Bradford Chorale is a registered charity no. 517197 and a member of:
For queries or further information please email: thebradfordchorale@gmail.com
or 'phone 01274 594659