Oswestry Choral Society
Oswestry Choral Society (OCS) was founded in 1888 and has been producing concerts in the Oswestry area for over 120 years. A mixed voice choir of about 60 members. The choir performs a wide variety of music from large choral works to shorter classical songs, sacred and secular, gospel and Jazz pieces. The choir relishes the opportunity to sing new musical works and is open to all music genres. Recent concerts include: Vivaldi’s Gloria, Monteverdi’s Beatus Vir, Schubert’s Mass in G Major, Bob Chilcott’s Jubilate and A Little Jazz Mass, John Rutter’s Feel the Sprit, Weber’s E Flat Mass and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, John Rutter’s Magnificat, Puccini Messa di Gloria, Alan Woods This Joyous Nighgt. Visit www.oschoral.org for full list of works performed.
The choir gives two major concerts a year, Christmas and Spring, plus special request invitation concerts. Most concerts are performed in churches in and around Oswestry however, some require a larger venue such as joint and invitation concerts. Rehearsals are on Wednesday evenings during school term in the Musgrave Centre, Moreton Hall School at 7.30pm. Leading up to the concerts extra rehearsals may be called by the choir’s musical director. These rehearsals are usually for individual voice sections (soprano, alto, tenor and bass) and take place at a suitable time and venue by arrangement.
New members are always welcome and auditions are not held. All the society asks is that members can sing in tune and are prepared to attend rehearsals on a regular basis.
The choir rehearses each Wednesday evening during term time in Moreton Hall School at 7.30pm
