Choirs

College Choir

The College Choir usually numbers about 70 singers, and provides music for daily worship and the major chapel services including the Carol Services and Speech Day. It also formed the civic choir to celebrate the Queen's Golden Wedding Anniversary and in 2004 performed for the Prime Minister and other Cabinet Ministers at the Labour Party Conference.

Chamber Choir

This is a specialised choir of about 28 singers open to pupils in age 14 and above.  It sings a selection of sacred and secular repertoire from the 16th century to the present day.  It performs at the major College Concerts, and has sung Evensong at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, St Paul’s Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral, London and Chichester Cathedrals.  The chamber choir is performing high profile concerts in and around Brighton.  In September 2004 they sang with the Sussex Symphony Orchestra under Sir Charles Mackerras at the Brighton Dome and a London concert is planned.  The chamber choir will tour Prague in July 2006.

The Choral Society is open to all pupils without audition and meets weekly to prepare for two major concerts each year, with a professional orchestra and soloists.  An adult choir of parents and friends of the College rehearses on Thursday evenings, 7-9pm. Works performed have included David Fanshawe’s African Sanctus, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, Haydn’s Creation and St Matthew Passion and Orff’s Carmina Burana.  In 1999 more than 220 singers sang in a Brighton Festival Concert which included Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Poulenc’s Gloria.  In May 2000 the Choral Society concert in Chichester included Elgar’s Spirit of England.  Most recently the Choral Society sang Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Bach’s Magnificat and in the 2004 Brighton Festival they performed Elgar’s ‘The Kingdom’ during the 2004 Brighton Festival.