A choir for every occasion

Beaminster Singers formed after the cast of the 1987 Beaminster Community Play stayed together to sing. Since then, the choral society has become a feature of the town's musical life, giving two or three concerts a year in the town and surrounding villages.

Heavenly Harmonies - November 2013

Our Spring Concert on Saturday 26 May 2018 in St Mary's Church, Beaminster features Vivaldi's Gloria, J.C. Bach's Magnificat and Haydn's Missa in tempore belli ('Paukenmesse'). For more information, click here.

We shall be hosting a Come and Sing day in Beaminster church on Saturday 22 September, featuring Puccini's marvellously operatic 'Messa di Gloria'. Click here for more information, and to download an application form.

Our Autumn Concert on Saturday 24 November 2018, again in St Mary's Church, Beaminster, will mark the 100th anniversary of Hubert Parry's death with a performance of his Ode on St Cecilia's Day among other well known pieces. Alongside these, we shall sing Pachelbel's Magnificat and Mozart's 'Sparrow Mass' - his Mass in C Major, Spatzen Messa KV 220

Recent performances have included Mozart's Requiem, Mendelssohn's As the Hart Pants, Haydn's Heilig Mass, Stanford's Songs of the Fleet and Kelly's Missa Brevis, Schubert's Magnificat, Vaughan Williams's In Windsor Forest and Hummel's delightful Mass in B.

We have performed Mendelssohn’s Elijah at the Lighthouse, Poole with the Dorset Guild of Singers, as well as Gounod’s St Cecilia Mass, MacDowall’s Christus Natus Est, Bax’s Of a Rose I Sing, Alessandro Scarlatti’s Dixit Dominus and Mozart's Loreto Mass, Bach's Magnificat and St John Passion, Haydn's Creation, Brahms Requiem, Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G and Mozart’s Te Deum.

As well as our concerts, we also host occasional choral workshops and perform in local festivals, at fund raising concerts, dinners and ceremonial occasions. We are available for private bookings at weddings and memorial services, where we can advise on the choice of music and arrange soloists as well as singing hymns and anthems.

This is what we sound like... click the icon to hear us sing

Kyrie from Mozart Requiem, recorded live at our 20th Anniversary Concert in May 2008.

part of How lovely are thy dwellings fair from Brahms Requiem, recorded live at a concert in November 2006.

a short extract from the Mendelssohn chorale Hear my Prayer (O for the wings of a dove) which was recorded live in November 2005.