Essex Voices

Essex Voices draws together some of the most accomplished amateur singers from Essex and the surrounding counties. Its origins go back nearly thirty years to four singers who met periodically on Friday evenings to sing madrigals for their own enjoyment. Over the intervening years the group has grown to number, at full strength, some twenty singers. We still meet, almost always on Friday evening, for our own enjoyment and tackle wide-ranging unaccompanied repertoire from the early Renaissance to the present day, by way of romantic part-songs and lighter jazz arrangements.

Occasionally we give public performances, often with a smaller group drawn from the larger one, singing one-a-part. These have included fund-raising recitals in north Essex and Norfolk churches, a Christmas concert for the Ongar Music Club, choral evensong at Great Waltham Church, a concert at Christ's College, Cambridge in aid of the local hospice and a concert of verse anthems with Chelys Consort of Viols.

All the members of the group are enthusiastic and confident choral singers and come with a diverse range of experience. We welcome good sight-readers with pleasant, blending voices who are confident holding a line singing one-a-part. To find out more, to book the group or to be sent details of forthcoming concerts, please contact Annabel Malton here.