Background

Established in 1961, we have been making music for almost 60 years, contributing to the artistic and cultural life of Potters Bar and the surrounding area. With a repertoire ranging from Verdi to Gershwin, Mozart, Handel, JS Bach, Sir Arthur Sullivan and many other composers, we enjoy singing a wide variety of choral works, oratorio, part songs, opera and lighter music. Most importantly, the emphasis is on having fun!

The choir is not afraid to do things on a large scale: in 2019 we performed Carmina Burana with the Lumia Choir, the Hemel Hempstead Singers and the Hemel Symphony Orchestra. We performed the Brahms German Requiem in May 2008 with the Hemel Hempstead Singers forming a choir of 60 with a 45 piece orchestra. In 2002 we joined with the Harrow Philharmonic Choir and the Trinity Orchestra for two memorable performances of the Verdi Requiem.

Rehearsals

We meet every Tuesday from 8-10 pm at St Mary's Church Hall, The Walk, Potters Bar EN6 1QQ. Membership fees averages out at about £5 per rehearsal although we don't ask new members to make a commitment until they have attended three rehearsals. There is no audition and we ask only for enthusiasm and a commitment to attend regularly. Sight singing is not a prerequisite for membership.

2022-2023
March 2023	Opera Choruses
May 2023	Mozart Mass in C and Solemn Vespers
Dec 2022	Traditional Christmas carols
2021-2022
May 2022	Music for a summer's evening
Mar 2022	Faure Requiem and Vierne Messe Solonnelle
Dec 2021	Traditional Christmas carols
Oct 2021	Vivaldi: Gloria; Handel: Coronation Anthems
2019-2020
Jan 2020	Orff: Carmina Burana (with Lumina Choir & Hemel Hempstead Singers; two performances in St Albans and Potters Bar)
Dec 2019	Holst: Christmas Day plus other carols
2018-2019
May 2019	Music for a May Evening
March 2019	Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
Dec 2018	Noël! Charpentier: Messe de Minuit pour Noël plus other carols
2017-2018
May 2018	In the Spirit incl: Chilcott: Little Jazz Mass; Tippett, Copland & Gershwin
March 2018	Haydn: Nelson Mass
Dec 2017	O Magnum Mysterium Poulenc: Quatre Motets pour le Temps de Noël
2016-2017
May 2017	In the Mood with Colin Peters Quartet
March 2017	Vivaldi: Gloria; Handel: Dixit Dominus
Dec 2016	To Go a-Carolling
2015-2016
May 2016	Mozart: Requiem & Ave verum corpus
March 2016	Sacred and Secular British Music: Sullivan, RVW, Karl Jenkins plus others
Dec 2015	Handel: Messiah (excerpts) plus carols
2014-2015
May 2015	An Evening with Gilbert and Sullivan
March 2015	Fauré: Requiem; Vierne: Messe Solennelle
Dec 2014	Handel: Chandos Anthem No. 9 and carols
Dec 2014	Premier Inn Carol Concert
2013-2014
May 2014	A Night at the Opera
March 2014	Vivaldi: Gloria; Haydn: Little Organ Mass; Goodall: Eternal Light (part)
Dec 2013	Charpentier: Messe de Minuit pour le temps de Noël plus carols
2012-2013
May 2013	This Scepter’d Isle: British Music from Medieval to Present Day: George Shearing: Elgar; Byrd: Britten and others
March 2013	Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle & Salve Regina
Dec 2012	Manchester Carols: Sasha Johnson Manning (extracts) and other carols
2011-2012
May 2012	Broadway Nights
March 2012	RVW: Serenade to Music; Schubert: Mass in E flat
Dec 2011	Rutter: Gloria plus Christmas carols
2010-2011
May 2011	Haydn: Creation
March 2011	An Evening with Gilbert and Sullivan
Dec 2010	Holst: Christmas Day plus carols
2009-2010
May 2010	Fauré: Requiem; Gounod: St Cecilia Mass
March 2010	Mendelssohn: Hymn of Praise; Bruckner: Motets (with Hemel Hempstead Singers)
Dec 2009	Handel: Messiah (Christmas Music) plus carols (with Hemel Hempstead Singers)
2008-2009
May 2009	Soirée Musicale (at Christ Church Little Heath as part of their Open House series)
May 2009	Songs for a Summer’s Evening
March 2009	Vivaldi: Gloria; Haydn: Maria Theresa Mass
Dec 2008	RVW: Fantasia on Christmas Carols plus other carols
2007-2008
May 2008	Brahms: Requiem (with Hemel Hempstead Singers)
March 2008	Opera Classics
Dec 2007	Richard Rodney Bennett: Five Carols; Michael Head: Four Finnish Christmas Songs and other carols
2006-2007
May 2007	Dvorak: Mass in D; Handel: Dixit Dominus(with Hemel Hempstead singers in Potters Bar)
March 2007	Choral Classics; Handel: Dixit Dominus and Coronation Anthems with Hemel Hempstead singers in Hemel)
Dec 2006	JS Bach: Christmas Oratorio (excerpts Part 1 & 2) plus carols
2005-2006
May 2006	Mozart: Coronation Mass & Solemn Vespers K317
March 2006	Songs from the Shows
2005-2004
May 2005	The Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan) and The Geisha by Sidney Jones
March 2005	Poulenc: Gloria; Rutter: Requiem
Dec 2004	Holst: Christmas Day and carols (with the Portobello Orchestra in Potters Bar)
2004-2003
May 2004	Handel: Coronation Anthems; Fauré: Requiem
April 2004	A Reflection for Good Friday (at United Reform Church)
March 2004	Purcell: Come ye Sons of Art; Mozart: Requiem
Dec 2003	Sing Carols at Wyllyotts (with Churches Together Potters Bar)
Nov 2003	Handel: Messiah (Bring & Sing at Dame Alice Owens’s School, organised by PBCS)
2003-2002
May 2003	Puccini: Messa di Gloria; Duruflé: Requiem
March 2003	A Night at the Opera
Dec 2002	Carols from around the World
2002-2001
May 2002	In the Mood
May 2002	Potters Bar Town Twinning Celebration at Wyllyotts
May 2002	Service at St Mary’s Church following Potters Bar Rail Crash (supporting St Mary’s Choir)
March 2002	A Reflection for Good Friday (at Christ Church Little Heath) Verdi: Requiem (with Harrow Philharmonic Choir at Potters Bar) Verdi: Requiem (with Harrow Philharmonic Choir at Harrow)
Dec 2001	RVW: Fantasia on Christmas Carols plus other carols
2001	Faure: Requiem; Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
2000	Handel: Messiah (Christmas Music); Vivaldi: Magnificat; Handel: Coronation Anthems; American Folk Music
1999	Schubert: Mass in E-flat major; Brahms: Liebeslieder; Opera Choruses: Mozart, Puccini, Wagner, Verdi, Weber & Purcell
1998	Music of Gilbert and Sullivan; Handel: Messiah
1997	Handel: Zadok the Priest; Handel: Dixit Dominus; Vivaldi: Gloria
1996	Mozart: Requiem; Gounod: St Cecilia Mass; Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
1995	Bach: Christmas Oratorio (part); Handel: Samson
1994	Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine; Brahms: Song of Destiny; Britten: Hymn to the Virgin; Mendelssohn: Hear My Prayer; Schubert: from Die Winterreise; Vivaldi: Credo
1993	Handel: Messiah
1992	Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands; Stanford: Songs of the Sea; Vaughan Williams: O be Joyful in the Lord; Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens
1991	Mozart: Coronation Mass; Dvorak: Mass in D; J Strauss: Tales of the Vienna Wood (extract)
1990	Rutter: Requiem; Brahms: Alto Rhapsody; Vaughan Williams: The First Nowell
1989	Haydn: The Creation
1988	Vivaldi Gloria; Puccini Messa di Gloria
1987	Handel Acis and Galatea; Songs by Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Sullivan and Elgar
1986	Haydn Maria Theresa Mass; Motets by Bruckner, Mozart, Vaughan Williams and Stanford
1985	Handel Samson
1984	Gounod St Cecilia Mass; Mendelssohn Hymn of Praise
1983	Haydn: The Creation
1982	JS Bach The Peasant Cantata; Schubert Mass in G; Vivaldi Gloria
1981	Mendelssohn: Elijah
1980	Faure: Requiem; Mendelssohn: Hear My Prayer
1979	Haydn: Nelson Mass; JS Bach: Chorales from Jesu Priceless Treasure
1978	Mendelssohn: Hymn of Praise; Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens
1977	Silver Jubilee Concert of English Light Music including excerpts from Merrie England and Gondoliers
1976	Handel: Messiah
1975	Handel: Acis and Galatea; Haydn: Maria Theresa Mass
1974	Handel: Samson
1973	Haydn: Creation
1972	Mozart: Mass in C; JS Bach: The Four Seasons
1971	Mendelssohn: Elijah
1970	Brahms: A German Requiem; Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus;JS Bach: Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
1969	Handel: Messiah; JS Bach: Christmas Oratorio