MONMOUTH CHORAL SOCIETY is looking to appoint an inspirational new conductor who is able to join us in January 2010. This mixed choir of some 120 voices has a range of musical abilities and has continued to improve over the term of Benjamin Nicholas' leadership. We perform four times a year with two major concerts with orchestra and two with smaller forces. We rehearse on Tuesday evenings (during term time) in Monmouth.

You will be someone who can develop an already successful amateur choir which has been led by Benjamin Nicholas for the last 4 years. You will also have experience of conducting orchestras of up to 50 members and good links with the musical world. We are looking for someone who can take the choir forward: with excellent conducting and teaching skills; a knowledge of a wide variety of musical genres; the ability to extend the choir's repertoire and skills; attract a range of age groups and offer audiences programmes which encompass the well-known and less traditional choral repertoire. In addition developing local links is a high
priority with the choir.

More information and background can be found at www.monmouthchoralsociety.co.uk and e-mail or telephone queries can be made to Chairman, Angela Flynn ma.flynn@tiscali.co.uk tel no 01594 562736;
or Secretary, Pat Barry tel no 01600 713965 patricia.barry3@btinternet.com

Application forms may be obtained from P Barry, Secretary, 7, Woodland View, Wyesham, Monmouthshire NP25 3JN.

Remuneration is by honorarium within the normal range appropriate to amateur choirs for rehearsals and performances.

Application forms together with a CV and covering letter describing how you see yourself taking forward this successful choir and outlining your relevant skills and experience should be submitted to the address above by the closing date -31st August 2009.

Mike Morgan; Chairman
Hart Male Voice Choir
01252 663674 and 07771 941707
mikemorgan9@ntlworld.com

Vacancy for a Principal Conductor

The Eastwood Collieries’ Male Voice Choir is an enthusiastic, fun-loving choir of around seventy voices based in Eastwood in Nottinghamshire. The choir rehearses on a Tuesday evening (7pm – 9pm) and typically has 10 to 20 engagements per year.

Formed in 1920, the choir is a registered charity which continues to raise thousands of pounds for charities, groups and organisations whilst maintaining an excellent reputation both locally and further afield. The choir performs a varied programme of engagements throughout the year and is no stranger to prestigious venues such as the Royal Albert Hall in London, De Montfort Hall, Leicester and the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham. The choir performs in smaller venues, at weddings, and large events and hosts its own massed voiced concert to sell–out audiences of 2000+ people. Another of these events is already in hand with the world famous band of Her Majesty’s Band of the Blues and Royals in 2010 with a massed male voice choir of around 500 voices.

This dynamic, forward-thinking choir is well regarded and respected within the local choral arena and is well-known for its quality singing and technical ability, with a repertoire covering a wide range of styles and genres from classical, operatic, religious, folk, popular and modern as well as songs from the shows.

Not being complacent, the choir believes there is always still much to achieve and with your enthusiastic, dynamic leadership we can do this together.

Remuneration for this position will be by negotiation.

Applications are invited from both ladies and gentlemen by application form and C.V., with details of two referees and a covering letter of not more than one A4 sheet of paper, highlighting key details of your conducting experience, musical leadership, and your approach to directing male voice choir singing. We hope to learn how you would lead and develop our choir and why you think you meet the particular needs of the choir whilst persuading us why we should ask you to discuss this opportunity further with you.

Contact the General Secretary (electronically or by post - details below) for an application form and details of how to apply for this post.

Lord James Ferrabbee KtGC., OBE, Honorary General Secretary, 35 Hawton Crescent, Wollaton Park, Nottingham NG8 1BZ
Email: james@ferrabbee.fsnet.co.uk

www.eastwoodcollieriesmvc.co.uk
UK Registered Charity – Number 241489

www.youthmusiccentre.or.uk
Bigwood House, Bigwood Road London NW11 7BD
Artistic Director: Nigel Goldberg ARCM
Administrator: Marina Solarek 020 8450 9290, youthmusiccentre@btinternet.com

youthmusiccentre has a vacancy for Choir master/Voice production. The Youth Music Centre is a thriving Saturday morning music school offering classes for children from age 18 months to 18 years ! Two years ago we celebrated our 40th Anniversary and at present we are looking to recruit a Voice Training/Choir Master to start in September 2009.

Our sessions run over three ten week terms with two week half terms and classes take place from 9.00 am to 12.30 pm. The successful applicant will take 5 1/2 hour group lessons ( divided into age groups ) in either Kodaly lessons, general musicianship or voice production (according to age or ability) and the groups vary in size between 4 and 18 children. At 11.45 we have our choir rehearsal for which you will choose repertoire although sometimes in consultation with our Artistic Director as the choir
occasionally collaborates with the Chamber Orchestra.

This is a position which will offer the successful candidate a wide scope to design their own
programme within a very creative and friendly environment

YOUNG VOICES Children's Choir is seeking an enthusiastic new Music Director from September 2009. We are looking for someone who can inspire children aged 7-12 with a wide range of choral music and who has the skills to run warm-ups, creative music making and teach some vocal technique.

Young Voices has around 20 members and is based in Tooting (SW London). Its members are aged from 7-12 and we are seeking a new director who has the ambition to help build the choir in size and range.

Rehearsals are held on Weds evenings during term-time in a local school and we do approximately 6 performance per year.

We don't have a website yet, so for a job description or an informal chat, please contact:

Christine Billings
07963-823-233
or young.voices@hotmail.co.uk

Dorking Choral Society is seeking to appoint a new Musical Director/Conductor from January 2010, to take over the leadership of the Choir from Justin Doyle, looking to continue to build on the last ten outstandingly successful years.

Dorking Choral Society (DCS) is a strong, enthusiastic, active and ambitious amateur choir with around 80 voices, based in Dorking, Surrey, rehearsing in Dorking on Wednesday evenings from early September to July. Versatile, with good sight reading and a cappella abilities, recent performances range from Mozart C Minor Mass to Will Todd's 'Mass in Blue', from St John Passion (in German) to an African music project including premiere performances of commissions by Alexander L'Estrange (Zimbe!) and Justin Doyle - reflecting our interest in the full range of the choral repertoire.

In a typical year DCS will stage a major concert in November, a less formal concert at Christmas, participate in the Leith Hill Musical Festival in the Spring term, and arrange a Summer concert and/or Tour. The choir traces its origins back to 1922, and is a long-standing member of, and competitor in, the Leith Hill Musical Festival (www.lhmf.co.uk), a leading UK choral event with strong Vaughan Williams connections, held annually in Dorking.

More information and background can be found at www.dorkingchoralsociety.org.uk and the Chairman, Ges Ray would be delighted to provide further information by phone or email.

DCS would welcome applications for the position of Musical Director from candidates with substantial experience of Choral and Orchestral conducting. This is a paid role within the normal range appropriate to amateur choirs for rehearsals & performances.

Applicants are asked to submit a C.V. together with any supporting information by 30th June 2009, preferably by email to:
Mr Ges Ray, Chairman Dorking Choral Society
Email: ges.ray@virgin.net Tel: 0794 108 3722
Address: 55 Fairfield Drive, Dorking Surrey RH4 1JQ

Reading Bach Choir, one of the leading amateur choirs in the Thames Valley, is seeking a new Music Director with effect from March 2010.

We are an ambitious, mixed voice, auditioned choir of c.50 members which sings a varied and challenging repertoire ranging from the renaissance to the 21st century. Our present conductor, JanJoost van Elburg, has transformed the sound and the musicality of the choir over the last 5 ½ years and has enabled the choir to give outstanding concerts to growing and enthusiastic audiences.

We wish to maintain and develop this success. We perform 3-4 concerts per year and rehearse on Tuesday evenings in Reading from 7.30 -10.

Full details of the post are available on our website www.readingbachchoir.org.uk.
Or email mdrecruitment@readingbachchoir.org.uk to discuss.

Closing date for applications Monday June 15.

Marsh Ladies Choir, a friendly, enthusiastic and successful amateur ladies choir wishes to appoint a suitably qualified and energetic Musical Director to continue its development.

The choir is based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire and is recognised as one of the top choirs in the region. The 35+ members enjoy singing a wide repertoire including classical, folk, swing and jazz. The choir performs at around twelve concerts and competitions a year both close to home and further afield. Rehearsals are on Thursdays evenings, 7.30-9.30pm. For more information about the choir please visit our web site at www.marshladieschoir.co.uk

Applicants should have wide experience in choral skills and preferably some arranging and composition ability. The choir would like a musical director willing to give several years service to lead them to reach their full potential.

A salary is payable by negotiation with the committee.

Please send your current C.V. giving full details of career and choral experience to:
The Chairperson: Fiona Wakley, 12 Southfield Court, Highburton, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire HD8 0RG
chair@marshladieschoir.co.uk; tel: 01484 604805

The CBSO are seeking two exceptional and inspiring choral leaders to take the helm of its very successful symphonic youth choruses.

The City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus (CBSYC) gave its first performance in 1995 and is now established as one of the country's leading youth choruses. The CBSYC consists of two choruses, the Senior Youth Chorus and the Junior Youth Chorus, which perform both separately and as a massed youth chorus, singing independently, as well as with the CBSO and many other high profile orchestras and choirs.

The successful applicants will be expected to work closely with the CBSO Chorus Management team, and with world renowned Chorus Director Simon Halsey in designing and developing ideas and strategies for the continued success and future development of the Youth Chorus.

1st Post:
Conductor - City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus (Seniors)
CBSYC Seniors is an auditioned chorus for girls in school years 9 to 13.

2nd Post:
Conductor - City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus (Juniors)
CBSYC Juniors is an auditioned chorus for boys and girls in school years 4 to 8.

The posts will require commitment to Monday evening rehearsals during term time, with occasional additional evenings and weekend days. Both choruses rehearse at CBSO Centre in central Birmingham.

Letters of application with CV and any other supporting material (DVDs, CDs and/or any other audio or/and visual samples are most welcome) should be sent to Elen Huws Elis, Chorus Manager, CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham, B1 2LF or to eelis@cbso.co.uk

For full details of the selection process, please visit www.cbso.co.uk/vacancies

Founded in 1964, BMVC is a choir (60 choristers) of international repute.

Our Musical Director of 28 years, David 'Dai' Ogborn, is retiring. Under his direction the choir has built a varied repertoire. We have recently performed with a military band, a youth orchestra, and other choirs. We have also sung at weddings and to community groups, averaging 12-15 concerts per year.

We rehearse on Monday evenings 7.30 - 9.30 in the United Reformed Church, which has fine acoustics, located in the centre of Basingstoke town. Our accompanist, of some 30 years, makes full use of both the piano and organ.

We are looking for an enthusiastic MD who will be committed to the long term development of the choir.

The successful applicant will be an ex-officio member of the executive committee and will work closely with the music sub-committee.

We suggest you firstly phone:-David Lester, Chairman BMVC, on 01256 475918, for an informal chat.
Then send your letter of application, including CV, to David at: 25 Greenbirch Close, Kempshott, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG22 5JL
email:- david.lester12@btinternet.com

Bristol Chamber Choir is looking for an inspiring Musical Director

Our choir of some 30 amateur singers needs a new director from September 2009.

We perform mainly a cappella, give at least 3 concerts a year and rehearse at St Peter's Church, Henleaze, Bristol on Wednesday evenings, during school terms. We offer a modest honorarium, a warm welcome and our wholehearted support.

Would you value our tradition, and our unique music library, built up over more than 170 years? Can you challenge and encourage us? Do you relish the fact that we enjoy singing music of many types, from ancient to modern, much-loved to long-forgotten?

To learn more, contact our secretary, Sue Alexander on 01454 778260, email susandalexander@hotmail.com, or visit www.bristolchamberchoir.org.uk.

To apply, please submit a CV with a brief covering letter outlining any ideas/proposals for the choir by email (as above), or by post to 278 Church Road, Frampton Cotterell, S.Glos, BS36 2BH.
Closing date 25 May.

King's Lynn Festival Chorus is looking for a dynamic and inspirational Music Director to take over from Michael Kibblewhite who is stepping down after 8 highly successful years with us.

We are a 110 strong, regularly auditioned, choir which performs music from 16th to 21st centuries, mainly from the European classical tradition but also world music and lighter pieces.

We perform annually in the King's Lynn Festival and give at least two other major concerts each year. Since 2007 we have undertaken successful European tours.

The appointment will be from January 2010. For further information please contact: Nick Balaam, KLFC, 01553 810425, or by email to klfc@magassoc.co.uk. Information about the choir is also available on the website: www.klfc.org.uk.
The closing date for applications is 31 July 2009. We anticipate interviewing and auditioning applicants in September.

Assistant Choral Director needed from September 2009 for the Skelldale Singers, Ripon's Community Choir, and Boroughbridge Community Choir as I (the current Choral Director) wish to spend some time over the next 12 months with my daughter, husband and new baby in Cheshire. The posts may eventually become permanent as I am planning to move closer to them once our house is sold.

The Skelldale Singers has around 60-70 members, and Boroughbridge Choir has around 30 members. Rehearsals take place in Boroughbridge on Monday evenings 7 - 9pm and Ripon on Tuesday evenings 7.15 - 9.15pm. There are no auditions and many do not read music but all are enthusiastic and lively and enjoy a varied repertoire of music. We occasionally sing an excerpt from a major work , e.g. Hallelujah Chorus but mostly enjoy singing gospel, African music, light classics, popular songs and ballads, folk songs etc. in SAB, SSA (adapted) and occasionally SATB. The choirs are already booked to perform in Ripon Cathedral at Christmas this year.

The Assistant Conductor would initially be required to work with me and take rehearsals when I am not in the area. The Skelldale Singers have a regular accompanist but the Boroughbridge Choir do not, and whilst an ability to accompany on the piano is useful it is not essential as it may be possible to appoint a pianist for this group. For further information please contact Christine Hale at chris_halebl@yahoo.co.uk (please note there is an underscore between "chris" and "halebl")

We are a friendly mixed choir, founded in 1972, with about 60 members. We perform a wide repertoire - details of past concerts are on our website. We currently put on four concerts a year, in November, December, April and June, and hold an annual workshop day to study and sing one of the works we will be performing.

As an amateur choir with a wide range of abilities, we want our Musical Director to help us to enjoy ourselves, to sing in a variety of musical styles, to be stretched at times, and to perform to as high a standard as possible.

Our website is: www.westbarnessingers.co.uk where you will find full details of the Choir and of the Musical Director position and how to apply. Closing date for applications is Monday, 11th May 2009.

If you have any initial questions please contact Robert Lyons on 020 8946 5555 or by Email at: lyonsrobert@hotmail.com

The Choir was formed in 1943. It has achieved huge success in its sixty-five years, winning many competitions, touring extensively, and giving about twelve concerts yearly in Shropshire and further afield in the UK. There are at present about forty choristers. The accompanist, Vivian Redfern, has been with the Choir for the past eleven years and is an accomplished pianist. She also acts as Choir Secretary. We have a very wide-ranging repertoire, and perform with copies to enable us to give concert programmes of great variety, to suit differing occasions and venues. We rehearse once a week on a Monday night in the Parish rooms in Newport. The successful candidate would receive an attractive remuneration.

For further information visit the choir website at www.newportmalevoicechoir.org.uk Application forms may be obtained from the Choir Secretary, Vivian Redfern, on 01952 460579.(email vivianredfern@tiscali.co.uk)

Applications should be made as soon as possible, but in any case before June 30th.

Applications are invited for the position of MD of Worthing Choral Society, to take up position on the 8th September 2009.

The Society has a membership of over 60, (SATB) and performs music from Tallis to Tavener and Buxtehude to Britten. The most recent undertaking was a 'Devotional' Concert of Bach's St Matthew Passion on Palm Sunday. The choir is ambitious and very friendly. In the last five years the choir has developed extremely well and is probably the best amateur choir in the Worthing area. Rehearsals take place in Broadwater (CE) First and Middle School Hall, Rectory Gardens on every Tuesday in School term.

Other information about the choir can be found on our website www.worthingchoral.org.uk

In the first instance, please send your personal details and CV to our Chairman, Mr Barry Bates, by email dower_house-1@tiscali.co.uk or letter, at 116 Broadwater Road Worthing, West Sussex. BN14 8HU, by Saturday 16th May 2009. You may wish to telephone him on 01903 823078 for any further information you may require before making the application.

We are looking for a Director with relevant qualifications and experience of working with young people, strong teaching and communication skills, someone with initiative and enthusiasm, and have the ability to be creative in their approach to choral music.

Candidates must have undertaken HSE approved Child Protection training or be in the process of applying for this short course. This position is also subject to Garda Vetting and clearance.

A fee will be payable to the director on the basis of relevant experience and qualifications. Initially, this post is for 2 years with a probationary period of 6 months. Suitable candidates will be called for interview and audition towards the end of May.

Interested applicants should send their CV along with a covering letter to:

Marie Bolger
Riverside Chorus
Chairperson
Rooskey
Co. Roscommon

Applications will also be accepted by email to: riversidechorus@yahoo.com
Closing date for application is Tuesday 5th May 2009
For further information or queries, contact Marie Bolger on 086 - 1005581.

We are looking for a Director with relevant qualifications and experience, strong teaching and communication skills, someone with initiative and enthusiasm, and most importantly a good sense of humour!

A fee will be payable to the director on the basis of relevant experience and qualifications. Initially, this post is for 2 years with a probationary period of 6 months. Suitable candidates will be called for interview and audition towards the end of May.

Interested applicants should send their CV along with a covering letter to:

Michele MacAuliffe
Chairperson
Suaimhneas Choral Singers
Church Street
Strokestown
Co. Roscommon

Applications will also be accepted by email to: suaimhneas.choral@hotmail.com
Closing date for application is Tuesday 5th May 2009
For further information or queries, contact Michele MacAuliffe on 087 - 2246591.

We usually hold two concerts per annum, in December and March.

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 19th May 2009

Further information and details of how to apply from: David Hughes Hallett, President 01334 829 333 david@hugheshallett.co.uk

Scottish Charity no: SC03467

We are a friendly, young and enthusiastic choir who love a challenge!

For more information or to send your CV, please contact Marianna Lo Conte at mclc1v07@soton.ac.uk

Closing Date - 1st May 2009

The choir is a chamber choir of about 35 voices which is based in Stockport and has a varied repetoire which includes works from Palestrina to Copeland. Recent performances include Haydn's Nelson Mass and a new work by Jonathan Willcocks 'A Great and Glorious Victory' a work which celebrates Nelson's victory at Trafalgar. We had a sell-out performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah last weekend with the Gorton Philharmonic Orchestra.

The choir is looking for an experienced choral conductor who is able to take them forward from the excellent work done by Philip. It meets on Tuesday evening close to Stockport town centre from 7.45 to 9.45pm.

The salary from January 1st 2009 is £1,440 per annum with concert fees of about £600 per year.

Application should be made in writing, with an accompanying c.v.by e-mail to audrey.evans@tesco.net

The closing date for applications is 18th April 2009 and auditions will take place shortly afterwards. Further information, if required, can be obtained through the Secretary, 0161 419 9158.