Vacancy for experienced Musical Director from September 2008.
The South Berkshire Singers are a mixed voice choir in Wokingham, Berkshire with a membership of about forty. We sing a wide variety of accompanied music ranging from short classical pieces and themed suites through to popular ballads and folk songs.

There are no auditions and there is a wide range of musical ability and ages.

We do several small concerts within the community before Christmas and then one major concert in a large local venue in June.
All money raised throughout the year from these concerts is given to a local charity chosen for that year.

The new MD will have had formal musical and choral training and will become an ex-officio committee member, taking full responsibility for all aspects of the choir's music and repertoire.

Rehearsals are held every Tuesday between 19.30 and 21.30hrs at Palmer School in Wokingham, Berkshire

To apply, please send a CV to Keith Stiles, 35 Summerfield Close, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG41 1PH;
email: keith.stiles@bsi-global.com ; or phone for further details on 01189 780581.

Diversity - London's LGBT Chamber Choir - is seeking a Musical Director to lead us through the next stage of our musical development. We currently undertake two major concerts each year (December and June/July) plus a variety of other events for a range of organisations within the LGBT community, concerts with other choirs and civil partnership ceremonies

Website: www.diversitychoir.co.uk

We currently pay an honorarium for the post of £1200 per annum; however, this is subject to review.

If you are interested in applying for the post please send a CV and letter of application to:
Mary Wallis (Chair), 31 Underhill Road, London, SE22 0QZ
or email marywallis@lineone.net

For more information please email or phone 07740 701846

The closing date for applications will be: Monday 14 July

We hope to meeting applicants during July, please let us know if there are any dates when you are not available.

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The fellowship offers the recipient the opportunity to work with a major symphonic chorus and it's Chorus Director. The RSNO Chorus meets weekly on Wednesday Evenings in Glasgow and performs regularly with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, under conductors of international stature.

The RSNO Chorus is recognised by the Inland Revenue as a Charity, Scottish Charity Registration No. Sco 04352

The recipient will receive an honorarium of £1,500, over the season's tenure.

The extended closing date for applications is Friday 25th July 2008

Application forms and further information may be obtained from:
Douglas Greig, Vice President, RSNO Chorus, Tighvechtan, 49 Crannog Way, Kilwinning, Ayrshire KA13 6NW

Telephone nos. Day: 0141-302-8152; Mobile: 07793132139
e-mail: tighvechtan49@msn.com

An Application Form can also be downloaded for printing, completion and despatch. (click here for a .pdf version)

The Michelmas Singers are a renowned mixed choir based in Teesside and performing a wide range of music both unaccompanied and with keyboard or chamber orchestras, specialising in music of the 16th and 20th centuries. There are 25-30 singers giving 4-8 concerts per year. Rehearsals are held on Friday evenings in Teesside during school term time.

Founded on Michelmas day 1967, they are now in their 41st season and looking for a new musical director from September 2008.

Favourite composers include Monteverdi, Byrd, Tallis, Purcell, Poulenc, Parry and Vaughan-Williams, but the choir has a very wide repertoire. Concerts range from intimate unaccompanied performances of madrigals and part songs through to major and challenging works of the choral repertoire with orchestral accompaniment. The choir is always keen to perform for charities.

If you are interested in this post, please forward a CV (with details of referees), with a covering letter and fee expectation to the Secretary of the Choir via our email address: michelmas.singers "at" tiscali.co.uk (use the @ symbol)

Closing date for applications is 11th August 2008, but please get in touch as soon as possible, and auditions will be held in September.

St Cecilia Chorus is based in Banstead, Surrey and a Music Director is required for January 2009.

We are a mixed choir of around 70 singers, founded in 1922, with a well-earned reputation for performing a wide repertoire of works, including first performances of specially commissioned works.

Our recent concerts have programmed both the familiar (Bach's St John Passion, Mozart's Solemn Vespers, Handel's Israel in Egypt) and unfamiliar (Valls' Missa Scala Aretina, S S Wesley's Confitebor, Elis Pehkonen's Russian Requiem). In addition to giving concerts locally, in Banstead, Cheam and Sutton, the choir makes regular appearances further afield (The Menuhin Hall, Chichester Cathedral, Fairfield Halls), and tours abroad every two years (Prague, Minsk, and last month, Venice).

St Cecilia Chorus concerts are accompanied by professional orchestras and soloists. Concerts planned for the 2008/09 season include visits to Chichester Cathedral, The Menuhin Hall and St Andrew's Church, Cheam. Performances are given three or four times a year and rehearsals are on Thursday evenings in Banstead, with a professional accompanist. Please also see www.banmussoc.demon.co.uk for information about St Cecilia Chorus.

For further details and an application pack, please contact Mrs Bery Radford
4, Woodcote Green, Wallington, Surrey SM6 9NN. Tel: 020 8669 3472. secretary@banmussoc.demon.co.uk

The closing date for receipt of applications is noon on Friday 29th August 2008. Interviews will be held in September.

We have a common shared love and enthusiasm for singing and a willingness to work hard to achieve the best possible performances. Debrose ladies choir currently rehearse on Wednesday evenings each week.

The choir performs at least 2 concerts a year as well as performing at other local events on request.

We are looking forward to resuming competing locally, nationally and internationally.

More details about the choir can be found on www.debrose.info

For details of application please contact:Margaret Raynor on 01706 654199 or email margaretraynor@sky.com.
Closing date for applications 31 July 2008.

The Torridge Male Voice Choir was formed in 2002, by successfully combining both the Bideford and Hartland Male Voice Choirs. And has continued to entertain audiences with a wide variety of songs at locations all mainly across north Devon. These range from churches, chapels, old folks homes, concert halls, hospitals and stately homes, sometimes for its own funds, but
more often for charities.

October 2007 saw the retirement of our Musical Director, of the previous 12 years, and our deputy took over. But unfortunately due to increasing work pressures, he too is no longer able to continue. Therefore our choir, of 25 strong is now currently seeking a new MD. The position is open to either male or female, positive enthusiastic applicants and previous experience is preferred, but not essential.

The choir rehearse every Tuesday evening, from 8-9.30pm at Woolsery village hall. Those interested should apply in writing to; Mrs Lisa Balkwill, 31 Fulford Close, Gammaton Road, Bideford, North Devon EX39 4DX

A great opportunity to work with a medium sized, mixed-aged and passionate Edinburgh choir. The Edinburgh Singers are seeking a Musical Director to take up the post in September 2008, following the departure of Dominic Peckham to pursue his singing career in London. We are looking to appoint an exceptional choral conductor with the ability to lead, challenge and inspire the choir, a group with a growing and exciting reputation as one of the most important in the capital, if not Scotland. We want our next Musical Director to continue to develop this reputation.

The Edinburgh Singers was formed as an amateur choir in 1952. Whether singing in support of local and national charities, or performing in major venues such as the Usher Hall, the choir has been part of the city's music scene ever since. In the past year, the choir has performed in a 3 day tour in Tuscany, worked with Scottish Opera and BBC SSO, has been featured twice in BBC's Songs of Praise and on Radios 3 & 4 and has won through to the National Selection stage of BBC Radio 3's Choir of the Year competition. The choir has also performed two popular concerts, and is working towards a performance of Bach's Mass in B minor for the 22nd of June.

Throughout school terms the choir rehearses on Thursdays from 7.30 - 9.30 pm, with additional rehearsals as required depending on commitments. All rehearsals are taken by the Musical Director together with the choir's own accompanist. The choir performs a core of three concerts a year, as well as other media opportunities, and is planning a tour of Spain in October 2009.

You will be responsible for working with the choir and committee to plan the concert calendar for the year ahead, establish new opportunities and challenges as well as advising on the selection of guest soloists and musicians.

Closing date 23 June 2008. See http://www.edinburghsingers.org.uk/vacancy.asp for more details.

We require a Director of Outreach for September, for 1 year in the first instance, 3 days a week, including Saturday morning and one evening. Candidates willing to lead this exciting and innovative project, to develop choral singing with staff and children in NE primary schools, on a self employed basis, salary £18,088 pa, will find further details available from the Head Mr. I. Hawksby

Apply in writing to the Headmaster, The Chorister School, The College, Durham DH1 3EL enclosing letter of application, CV, names and telephone numbers of 2 referees.

IAPS 3-13 Co-ed. Boarding and Day School
Telephone: 0191 3842935; e-mail: headmaster@choristers.durham.sch.uk; web site: www.choristers.durham.sch.uk

Closing date 9th July 2008

Our very popular Director of Music, Vetta Wise, will be conducting her last concert with us in early July. We are therefore seeking a suitable replacement and would be pleased to receive applications from interested and suitably qualified individuals. We have obtained the services of a guest conductor for our concert in December and consequently expect to engage a permanent replacement in time to begin rehearsals in January.

Beccles Choral Society is a mixed community choir of approximately 70 singers. We perform three concerts a year - April/May, June/July and December - frequently with orchestra and professional soloists. Rehearsals are held every Tuesday in the Public Hall in Beccles for two hours from 7:30. Our usual performance venue is St Michael's Church in Beccles but we also perform in other venues, frequently by invitation. The choir has previously hired Snape Maltings for a concert and we are currently planning a performance at Kentwell Hall as part of the Summer Festival in August 2008 and have been invited to sing with the RPO at the Marina Theatre, Lowestoft in December 2009.

In addition to training and conducting the choir the Director of Music will be expected, in discussion with the Committee, to take the lead in choosing music for performance.

Remuneration will be negotiated.

Further information about the choir can be found at our website www.beccleschoralsociety.co.uk
Anyone interested in this position should apply, in a hand written letter in the first instance, to Stella Murgatroyd, High Hedges, Butt Lane, Burgh Castle, Great Yarmouth, NR31 9PU. The applicant will then be sent an application form and other information about the society.
Initial application must be made by 26th June please

Cantate is one of the UK’s leading young choirs. We are seeking a Vocal and Music Assistant from September 2008. You will join members of the team, led by Michael Kibblewhite, who teach and direct Cantate’s Senior, Youth and Training Choirs. Singers are aged from eight to eighteen, and you will work particularly with the younger voices.

You will have appropriate qualifications, experience of choral work with young voices, and good keyboard skills. The post might suit a recent college graduate. Rehearsals normally take place on Saturday and/or Sunday afternoons in Bishop’s Stortford.

To apply, please send a c.v. by 6 June to Pascale Bozzi, General Manager, Cantate, First Floor, 11-13 Hockerill Street, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts., CM23 2DH. Email: info@cantate.co.uk. Tel 01279 652118.

www.cantate.co.uk

The Chesterfield Symphony Orchestra is an amateur organisation of 40-50 members, who meet for rehearsals on Tuesday evenings during term time in Chesterfield. We put on three concerts per year and are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic conductor to take us forward.

If you are interested in this post, please forward a CV (with details of referees), with a covering letter and fee expectation to the Secretary of the Orchestra via our email address: chesterfieldsymphonyorchestra@googlemail.com

Closing date for applications is Tuesday 1st July 2008, and auditions will be held in September.

Salisbury Community Choir is an enthusiastic, mixed voice, non-auditioned amateur choir based in Salisbury Wiltshire. We have 180 members who perform a wide variety of music from sacred to secular in a wide variety of venues. Many of our concerts are a basis for fund raising for charities, both local and overseas. In recent years, in addition to local concerts, the choir has performed in several overseas venues and, in 2007, we performed the African Premiere of Karl Jenkins' Mass for Peace - The Armed Man in Cape Town City Hall on Freedom Day to a capacity audience with three African Choirs.

In June 2008, we will be performing the same work with a visiting African Choir from Cape Town as part of Salisbury International Arts Festival, and at the Welsh Millennium Centre in Cardiff, the latter concert conducted by the composer. A second internationally known choir from Cape Town, Pro Cantu, will be performing with us in July whilst in transit to the Choir Olympics in Austria. Plans for 2009 include the performance of a new work by Bob Chilcott, based on Sarum Vespers, which we have jointly commissioned with other local choirs and musicians. This is to be performed as the opening concert of the 2009 Salisbury International Arts Festival. For further information about the choir, visit our website at: www.salisburycommunitychoir.co.uk

The choir is seeking a Musical Director as a successor to our present Director who is leaving us after ten years in the post. The new Director will need to share our enthusiasm and be able to inspire and motivate the members so that we can continue to tackle an even wider and more challenging repertoire.

We are seeking to make an appointment by the end of 2008 at latest to take over the choir in January 2009. Candidates should send a letter of application with their CV to: David Machon, 37 Ridgeway Road, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 3BT. For further information, contact David on 01722-323 508 or on E- Mail at: david.machon@ntlworld.com
Final Date for Application: 27 June 2008

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated Musical Director.

Fascinating Rhythm is a female chorus who enjoy singing 4 part acappella/barbershop. We are based in Rangeworthy, Yate (10 miles north of Bristol) and we are interested in hearing from you.

For further information or to make an appointment to visit us, please contact:
Lesley Beswick (Chair) chair@fascinating-rhythm.com

6th June 2008: Closing date for applications
9th June 2008 : Shortlist selected (Short listed candidates will be notified by 13th June)

The Bristol Bach Choir (President: Brian Kay) is seeking to appoint an outstanding Music Director to commence in January 2009. The choir of around 60 singers enjoys a reputation as one of the foremost choirs in the region. Under its current conductor, Peter Leech the choir has enhanced its standing through its imaginative and innovative programming, and is looking to develop this further. While many concerts feature works by J S Bach and from the Baroque period, the choir also performs a range of well-known, challenging and unfamiliar works from the Renaissance to the present day.

The choir rehearses on Thursday evenings and performs around 6 concerts each year in major venues in Bristol and the South West.

Applications to be received by 30 June 2008.

For further details and more information please log on to: www.bristolbach.org.uk

Our Musical Director, Peter Collis, wishes to retire in June 2009, so we are looking for a worthy successor.

Sheffield Bach Choir has been in existence since 1950, and has built up a tradition of excellent choral singing, using the finest affordable soloists
and professional orchestral players. It has a membership of about 60, and entry is by audition. Its members are good sight-readers, and concerts - 6 per season including an annual performance of The Messiah - are often performed with only 4 rehearsals (The Messiah usually with only 1 or 2). From time to time the Choir also undertakes "Outside Visits", i.e. smaller scale concerts that are appropriate with organ accompaniment in say, village churches. These are intended as fund-raising events, sometimes for the Choir itself, but more often for the Church/organisation that has invited us. We aim not to make a loss on these concerts.

Under our Conductor, Mr Peter Collis (who has conducted us since 2000), the Choir has continued to perform to a high standard. We wish this level to be at least maintained, and if possible enhanced.

For more information about the choir, please visit our website at www.sheffieldbachchoir.org.uk

To apply, please send your musical CV to: Mrs J A Cowling, 2 College Street, Sheffield S10 2PH
or by email treasurer@sheffieldbachchoir.org.uk
The closing date for applications is Saturday 28th June 2008. Interviews, which will take the form of rehearsing the choir for an hour followed by an interview, will be held in the autumn. This is a paid position.

Our Musical Director during the last 20 years, Alan Jenkins, is retiring at the end of 2008 and we are seeking a replacement to take up duties from 1.1.09.
Under Alan's guidance the choir has developed a highly deserved reputation for innovative and imaginative programming, which has delighted audiences both locally and nationally.
The choir has some 65 members and is based in Honley, a village on the outskirts of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. The choir rehearses twice at week at the moment on Tuesday and Friday evenings from 7.45 to 9.15pm. We have an extensive concert programme and usually perform on some 20 occasions per year. Huddersfield Town Hall is our base concert venue. This is a wonderful hall seating almost 1200 and the choir appears here regularly with some of the top brass bands in the country.
The successful applicant will work with a Music Committee in the preparation of repertoire and concert programmes. Our repertoire covers all tastes from classical, folk songs, music from the shows to religious items.
Applicants should send details of qualifications and experience to the choir Secretary, Stephen Hepworth at: hmvc@btinternet.com by 14th June 2008.

A major south coast amateur mixed choir of just over 80 singers has a vacancy for Choral Director commencing 1st January 2009.

The choir rehearses on Monday evenings and puts on 4 concerts per year. It takes on other outside engagements and has a celebration-wedding choir and a social programme.

For full information please contact the General Secretary, Dr W I M Dow, Cwch House, Leep Lane, Alverstoke, Gosport

e-mail: DRWIMDOW@aol.com Tel: 02392 538122

Applications by 1st June 2008 please.