Come And Join Us!

Summertown Choral Society gives two concerts a year, generally in January/February and May/June, usually in St Andrew’s Church, North Oxford. The year consists of two terms, and runs from early September to May or June, with short breaks for Christmas and Easter.

Joining SCS

Summertown Choral Society welcomes new members of all ages, voices, and abilities. There is no audition. If you would like, just come along and sing with us in a rehearsal before deciding whether you’d like to join.

This term – which started on 14 September – we are preparing for a concert of Mozart’s Great C Minor Mass and Purcell’s Funeral Sentences, which we will be performing with the Instruments of Time and Truth on 3 February 2024. For more details click here.

Our summer concert – on 18 May 2024 – will feature Brahms’ Requiem, in German and in the four-hand piano version, together with Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs.

Recent programme

Our most recent live concert – music by Liszt, Dvořák, Clara Schumann, Bortniansky and Tchaikovsky – took place on 20 May 2023.

A full list of the works sung by the Summertown Choral Society is available on our Concert History page.

Rehearsal time and venue

Rehearsals take place on Thursday evenings, 8-9.30pm, in the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Summertown, between September and late May. There is also an opportunity for a cappella singing with the Summertown Singers on a summer trip. In August 2023 the group visited Brasov in Romania.

Membership subscriptions

Membership subscriptions are £95 for the forthcoming 2023-4 winter term, £75 for the following 2024 summer term. This includes music hire. The subscription is half-price for those under 30 and for full-time students over the age of 30, and may be waived or reduced for members in financial hardship. We are currently offering free places to Ukrainian singers.