Welcome 2024 – we are getting ready to sing again!

Concerts

In 2024 we will be singing Karl Jenkin’s Requiem for our first concert, combining again with the Bendigo Chorale. (You can listen to the choir singing with Bendigo Chorale in June 2023 here.)

After discussion at our first committee meeting for 2024 last Tuesday, we can confirm:

  • concert dates for Karl Jenkins Requiem will be  June 22 at Brighton & June 29 in Bendigo
  • our second concert will be in December at St Andrew’s Church Brighton on Saturday, December 7, with the programme yet to be confirmed

Rehearsals

Our first rehearsal is Monday, February 5th in the Pioneer Chapel of St Andrew’s Church, Brighton at 7.30pm for a 7.45pm warm up. We will have a “cuppa” at the end of our first rehearsal but no Trading Table in February. The Trading Table has been very successful in injecting funds for the choir in the last half of 2023. Thank you to our people manning this stall. From March we will resume the Trading Table, along with the “cuppa”, on the first Monday of the month.

Fees

There was discussion throughout 2023 re the choir’s finances. After much discussion at the January Committee Meeting it was decided that fees would need to be raised. Each chorister will now be asked to pay $12.50 per rehearsal. This will go towards covering fixed fees (administrative fees of church rental, fees for our conductor and accompanist) and the monthly cuppa. Music costs will still be additional. The score of the Karl Jenkins Requiem will be available for purchase at first rehearsals for $40.

This year!

The schedule this year will give us more time for each concert and enable us to do new bigger works. We sang so well at our concerts last year and are looking forward to our program this year. New members are always welcome!

Looking forward to seeing everyone for rehearsal on Monday February 5, 7.30pm at the Pioneer Chapel, St Andrew’s Anglican Church, 228 New Street, Brighton.