Welcome to the official web site for the Southend on Sea Boys' and Girls' Choir.

This site showcases the choirs recent achievements,with new updated biographies on the Boys and Girls choirs. Just click on the navigation bar above.  A photo and video Gallery captures on film the visits abroad and special events and is linked to popular photo site Flickr and our Facebook pages. 

The Media area is also where you can sample the choirs recorded work as well as streaming audio and video of their most recent appearances.


Our Discography page which will feature the full list of recordings on which the choir have featured. On the media audio download page, listeners can sample a short extract from each recording listed.

Take a listen to the Choirs rich musical history.  In addition there is a section devoted to forthcoming events and links to other sites of interest.

Southend on Sea is twinned with Sopot, Poland, where the choir performed in 2002 and 2005. Our archive contains Previous Concerts as well as Choir Tours and our Discography.

Conductor:

Roger Humphrey Tel: 01702 215623

Accompanist:

Rosemary Pennington Tel: 01702-215624
Mobile: 07771 600009    Fax: 01702 215631

P.O. Box 6,
Civic Centre,
Victoria Avenue,
Southend on Sea,
Essex.
SS2 6ER.

Boys' Choir President - Bob Chilcott
Girls' Choir President- Sir David Willcocks, CBE, MC
Boys' and Girls' Choirs Patron- Raymond Gubbay, CBE.

We are a registered charity No: 1118040

Boys Choir

  Girls Choir

The latest newsletter is now available on-line go to newsletter to download in Word or PDF formats


You can also feedback directly by clicking on Contact Us

Hire the Choir

The Southend Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs are frequently hired to perform at weddings or corporate events. 

Previous engagements have included singing at dinners and entertaining at corporate functions. 

The choirs also regularly perform at weddings, and have a wide range of repertoire to suit different wedding services and receptions. 

Contact 01702-215624 for more information.

Summer concerts will be keeping the singers busy this term, and we very much hope you will be able to get to some of these concerts.

On Friday 29th June, 7.30pm  The choirs will join with Southend Band and “Cantare” at Southend High School for Boys, to present an evening of music to raise funds for HARP.  Tickets £7 (£6 concessions) from 01702 303628.

On Sunday 1st July, 7.30pm, a group from the choirs will host a concert with a visiting youth choir from Los Angeles who are on a UK Concert Tour. Tickets will be on sale soon for this event, priced £7 (£6 concessions) from 01702 303628.

On Friday 6th July Southend will welcome the Olympic Torch as the relay comes to the town, and a huge choral performance will take place during the day on Southend Sea Front.  There will be a performance of a specially commissioned piece of music by Tolga Kashif (composer of the Queen Symphony).  This project will involve nearly 2,000 singers, and there will be plenty of local publicity around this in due course.  Singers from the age of 7 – 97 will be taking part in this unique performance, which is free for all to attend.

On Saturday 7th July, 7.30pm at Westcliff High School for Boys, the Girls’ Choir will join with Southend Choral Society for a programme of light summer music, including some choruses from much loved Gilbert & Sullivan operettas.  Tickets from 01702 303628 priced £8 (£7 concessions).

Monday 9th July, 1pm is the date for the Girls’ Choir’s annual Lunchtime Recital at St Martin in the Fields Church, Trafalgar Square, London.  The church is has one of the best acoustics in London, and regularly attracts large audiences to the Lunchtime Concert series.

On 25th July a group of 33 singers will embark on a 2 week concert tour to Washington, Philadelphia and New York.  The group will perform in some wonderful venues during their tour, including Kennedy Centre Millennium Stage, St Paul’s Chapel at Ground Zero and St Bartholomew’s Cathedral, NY.  The tour group will be performing a pre-tour concert, so please do keep an eye on local press and our website for more information.

Newsletters – as you cannot failed to have seen, postage costs have gone up and we are doing our best to reduce costs and also reduce the amount of paper we produce.  If you would be happy to receive future newsletters via email, please let us know by emailing – webmaster@southendchoirs.org.uk