Association Of British Choral Directors
Welcome to the Association of British Choral Directors

Welcome to the Association of British Choral Directors

The UK's only organisation entirely devoted to those leading choral music.

2012 Conducting Courses fully booked! »
All abcd Extended Conducting Courses for 2012 are now fully booked. A waiting list is being complied
Posted: Thursday, 2nd February 2012
Members honoured in New Year Honours List »
No fewer than three abcd members have been included in the Queen's New Years Honours list. Ronald Corp, Founder and Artistic Director of the New London Orchestra, receives an OBE for services to music. Ralph Allwood, who was Precentor and Director of Music at Eton College for 26 years, receives an MBE for services to choral music, as does Marilyn Smith, the Conductor and Musical Director of the Glasgow Phoenix Choir.
Posted: Monday, 9th January 2012
John Rutter TV special on Christmas Day »
A festive programme celebrating the music of abcd Vice-President John Rutter will be broadcast on BBC2 on Christmas Day at 2.10pm. Entitled 'A Musical Nativity with John Rutter', the programme is a special re-telling of the Christmas story through John's music.
Posted: Wednesday, 21st December 2011
North West Honour Choir »
Sat 4th Feb 2012 - Sat 7th Jul 2012
Do you love to sing? Have you been in the Honour Choir before or are you in Year 5, 6, 7 or 8? Join the NORTH WEST HONOUR CHOIR 2012 Sing with other children who love to sing. Work with Bob Chilcott on his music. Rehearsals: 4th February; 21st April 2012 10am - 3pm
Longsands Community Primary School, Longsands Lane, Fulwo
Come and Sing With The Lancaster Singers »
Sat 18th Feb 2012
Come and Sing With The Lancaster Singers under our dynamic conductor Marco Fanti Lancaster University Chaplaincy Centre
February 18th 11.00a.m. - 3.45p.m.
Discover and sing Michael Haydn's largely unknown Requiem and dip into Mozart's Requiem as a contrast.
Copies of the Haydn score will be provided; please bring