New Term begins Thursday 4th February

Rehearsals for the new term, featuring Purcell's Funeral Sentences and Parry's Ode to St. Cecilia, begin on Thursday 4th February, with the term culminating in our spring concert on Saturday 15th May.

New members are always welcome, and membership for a single term is just £40, so please come and join us at the United Reformed Church in Summertown from 7.00pm onwards where you will be greeted with a welcome drink as you collect your music.

Previous Concert

On January 23rd 2010 we were delighted to perform our winter concert in the atmospheric and acoustically rich setting of St. Barnabas Church in Jericho.

The concert featured excerpts from Monteverdi's Vespers together with Handel's Nisi Dominus and The King shall rejoice, Dering's Factum est Silentium and Humfrey's Hear O heavens.

To listen to an extract - the stirring Gloria from Monteverdi's Vespers which concluded the first half of the concert - please click on the following link: Gloria

For photos and other memorabilia from the concert, please visit our concert history pages.

About Us

Summertown Choral Society is a well-established mixed voice amateur choir with around 130 members. Whilst based in North Oxford, its members are drawn from all over the city, and surrounding areas.

Since its foundation in 1961, SCS has performed a diverse range of choral music, from major works such as Brahms's German Requiem and Mozart's Great Mass in C minor to less familiar miniatures such as Britten's Five Flower Songs. We hold two concerts each year in January and May, and rehearse on Thursdays from 7.30 - 9.00 pm at the United Reformed Church in Summertown.

We aim to encourage a friendly atmosphere in which everyone enjoys singing. New members of all voices and ages are welcome at any time and there is no audition. Singing is a natural way of relaxing and it's fun too! Membership is just £70 for two concert terms or £40 for a single term, so even if you haven't sung before why not come along and give it a go?

The Society has been directed by Duncan Saunderson since 1996 with Julian Littlewood as accompanist from 1997.