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

In April 2014 we joined the Dorset Guild of Singers and Dorchester Choral Society in a combined performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah at the Lighthouse, Poole.Later in the spring, we sang Mozart's Spaurmesse in its liturgical setting during Mass at the Catholic Church in Bridport and during a Choral Eucharist at St Mary's Beaminster.

Our Autumn Concert will be on Saturday 22 November 2014 when we shall perform Handel's Ode on St Cecilia's Day, Haydn's Mariazeller Messe and excerpts from Mendelssohn's Elijah. For tickets and more information, click here.

Recent performances have included Gounod's St Cecilia Mass, 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, Bach's Wachet Auf, Vivaldi's Beatus Vir and Mozart's Te Deum. In 2008 we marked our 20th anniversary with a concert featuring Mozart's Requiem.

We also 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.

We have a year-round calendar of fun fund-raising activities (cabaret evening, walks, wine and cheese, book/CD swap, coffee morning, plant sale, quizzes, suppers...) and regular worskhops on voice production and choral singing.