Choir of St. Peter's, Bournemouth

Last chance for today's auditions. If you haven't signed up but want to try it out, come along at 6pm. Free parking in the church car park - BH1 2EE opposite Beales.

🎼 Calling ambitious young singers 🎼

We have a few places available from September for keen young musicians in Bournemouth and Poole. Supercharge your music-making by singing alongside our professional adults ensemble, discovering great music, developing your skills, and making new friends as you go.

We're looking for girls in Year 5 and up who love singing, have a 'can do' attitude and a good ear for music. Come along this Thursday at 6pm and unlock the next level of your musicianship!

🎵 Interested? 🎵 Want to find out more? 🎵 Want to give it a go?
➡️ Message us or follow the link in the comments to book your place.

🎼 Calling ambitious young singers 🎼

We have a few places available from September for keen young musicians in Bournemouth and Poole. Supercharge your music-making by singing alongside our professional adults ensemble, discovering great music, developing your skills, and making new friends as you go.

We're looking for girls in Year 5 and up who love singing, have a 'can do' attitude and a good ear for music. Come along this Thursday at 6pm and unlock the next level of your musicianship!

🎵 Interested? 🎵 Want to find out more? 🎵 Want to give it a go?
➡️ Message us or follow the link in the comments to book your place.

It's the end of the lay clerks' and choristers' first year! We finished in style with Harold Darke's Communion Service 'Collegium Regale' and Andrew Gant's double-choir arrangement of César Franck's evergreen Panis angelicus.

The parish choir finish the term next Sunday. And then we're back in early September. (Although we've got a few plans for August - watch this space...)

Thanks to all of our singers, choir parents, and supporters for all that you've done this year. We couldn't do it without you! Have a great summer.

Nearly the end of the choir year. Last rehearsal was on Thursday, followed by ice-creams 🍦 Then their last service tomorrow morning singing Darke and Franck with the lay clerks.

Duncan visited The Epiphany School yesterday lunchtime to talk to their Year 5 and 6 singers about choristership. It's a lovely school, a very calm and friendly environment. Their choir of more than sixty children is flourishing under Simon Woodley (who's a former St. Peter's chorister) and they were confident in standing in front of their friends and singing for me. I heard some really good voices - and I hope that a few of them will be trying on the famous purple cassocks at St. Peter's for the first time in September.

(It was also more than 30 degrees. If you look closely, you'll see my jacket starting to melt around the edges!)

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We've got another busy week ahead!

On Sunday we welcome Bøler Skolekor of Oslo (pictured) who are joining our lay clerks and choristers to sing at the 10am Sung Eucharist. After coffee and cake, they're giving a short concert too. Do come at 10 and stay to hear them!

That's followed during the week with lay clerk auditions, school visits to talk about choristership to musicians in Years 5 and 6, and some opportunities to talk about the role our choir can play in the cultural and civic life of the town.

Our senior choristers after evensong at Salisbury yesterday. Tired but happy! What a great day. Thanks again to the Royal School of Church Music for their support for children's voices.

Our senior choristers are having a fantastic day out in Salisbury rehearsing with the adult singers of the Royal School of Church Music Voices West. On the hottest day of the year - and it's at least 30 degrees 🥵 - they'll be enjoying the cool of the cathedral while singing Evensong later.

The music will be by William Smith, Bryan Kelly, Gustav Holst and Joseph Twist.

A big thank you to George Castle, Josh Hutchinson and Sarah King for the invitation, and to David Fawcett for leading the initative.