Chipperfield Choral Society

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Chipperfield Choral Society

The Society was founded in 1947. Last year saw us celebrate our Diamond Jubilee, climaxing with a concert at St. Johns, Boxmoor with our patron Emma Bell.

The Society is affiliated to the National Federation of Music Societies. In that time we have performed a wide variety of works (for details of concert history click here). We now has almost 100 members, drawn from a wide area centred on the village of Chipperfield.

New members are always welcome (especially Tenors and Basses) so if you would like more information please phone our secretary, Anne Wyburd on 01923 267515

Rehearsals

Our rehearsal periods correspond more or less to school terms. They are held in the Village Hall, Chipperfield starting at 7.45pm. For full rehearsal details of our 60th Season, please click here.

Concerts

We usually give three concerts a year:

• In December, the concert is generally Christmas music with some audience singing of carols and is held in St. Paul's Church, Chipperfield.

• In March we perform a major work at a larger venue.

• Our final concert is held in June in usually at St. Paul's Church, Chipperfield.

We also give a Charity Carol Concert and, from time to time, join with other choirs to perform major choral works in prestigious venues. This year some members of the Choir form part of joint Hertfordshire Choir who are performing Berlioz's Grande Masse de mort in the Royal Albert Hall in November.

Concert programmes for Last Season (2004-5) can be viewed by clicking on the below links:

• Christmas 2006

• March 2007

• June 2007

Musical Director

DELIA MEEHAN has been the Conductor and Musical Director of the Chipperfield Choral Society since 1991. On completing her studies at the Royal Academy of Music she returned to teach the oboe on the Junior Exhibitioners’ Course and also taught at Reading University and the Royal Holloway College (University of London).

Throughout her teaching career Delia has worked in close association with both the Berkshire and Hertfordshire youth orchestras and wind bands. She is currently the Senior Instrumental Tutor and Woodwind Coach with the English Schools’ Orchestra, which undertook a tour of Australia during the summer of 2003 in conjunction with the Australian Youth Choir, giving concerts in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

Delia teaches full-time at the Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Elstree, and a Gala Concert in the Barbican has been the highlight of this academic year.

As a member of the panel of examiners for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Delia has had the opportunity to travel to Malaysia and the Far East in this capacity. She was invited to adjudicate at the Kota Kinabalu Music Festival in Sabah, Borneo in August 2005 and 2006 and has been invited to do so again in the summer of 2007. She has also been invited to adjudicate at the inaugural festival in Kuala Lumpar in 2007.

Delia is a regular adjudicator in this country, especially locally at the Chesham Festival of Music and the Three Rivers Young Musician of the Year competition, which takes place each summer.
 

Rehearsal Pianist:

 Rosemary Venner has been the Society's rehearsal pianist since 1994 and sings with the altos during performances. Following studies at the Royal Academy of Music, Rosemary was a freelance accompanist and coach for several years before moving into office administration. She now divides her time between business and music.

Rosemary is also a member of the BBC Symphony Chorus.

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