South Oxfordshire Choir

13/03/2026

Only one week to go until our spring concert of uplifting anthems at St. Mary's Church Wallingford on Saturday 21st March at 7.30pm. Members of the audience can get their tickets on the door on the night. See you there.

The South Oxfordshire Choir is a non-auditioned choir singing a variety of choral and popular music. We put on 2 or 3 concerts a year in the Wallingford area. Rehearsals are at Moulsford Prep School on Mondays from 8pm to 9.30pm.

10/02/2026

Give a warm welcome to spring with an evening of uplifting choral music as South Oxfordshire Choir presents a concert of anthems for the new season, featuring George Dyson’s radiant Hierusalem. The concert takes place on Saturday 21 March at 7.30pm in St Mary’s Church, Wallingford.
The Choir will be joined by soprano soloist Margaret Lingas, an Oxford-based singer who performs regularly as a soloist and consort singer across the UK, Europe and North America. The concert will be conducted by the Choir’s music director Crawford Robotham, with Anne Light at the piano.
Tickets will be available on the door. For further information, visit www.southoxonchoir.org

22/01/2026

Now that we are well into the new term, I thought you might want to jot our 2026 concert dates down in your diary:

1. Dyson’s Hierusalem, along with a selection of pieces loosely themed around Spring / new life, on Saturday 21 March, 7.30pm at St Mary-le-More, Wallingford.

2. Vivaldi’s Gloria (+) on Saturday 18 July, 7.30 pm at St Mary’s Church in Cholsey - part of Cholsey's music festival.

3. Bunkfest weekend in Wallingford - either 5th or 6th September. Details still TBC.

4. Works by a collection of women's composers on Saturday 21st November.

What a lot of fabulous music to enjoy!

01/01/2026

Just a reminder to current members of South Oxfordshire Choir and others interested in trying us out, that our first rehearsal of the year is Monday 12th January. We're meeting up at St. Mary's Church in in central Wallingford, and beginning at 8pm as usual.

14/12/2025

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…for South Oxfordshire Choir. Here we are singing carols in St Mary’s during the Saturday market.

03/12/2025

Monday 8th December will be the end of South Oxfordshire Choir's autumn term and we'll celebrating the close of what has been a special anniversary year with a drink and some nibbles in St. Mary's Church (Members don't forget the snacks!).

We begin rehearsals once again on Monday 12th January - when all newcomers are welcome (8pm St. Mary's Church, Wallingford) and when we'll be starting afresh rehearsing Dyson's 'Hierusalem' and some other pieces.

But for this coming Monday (8th), we're going to be brushing up our carol singing, ready for entertaining the Christmas Market shoppers in the church on the morning of Saturday 13th December.

17/11/2025

This Saturday 22nd November at 7.30pm South Oxfordshire Choir will be performing Haydn’s Missa Sancti Nicolai in Wallingford’s St. Mary’s Church. Tickets for the concert, in what is the Choir’s 30th anniversary year, will be available at the door on the night and we'd love to see you there.
Joined by soloists, the Choir will be conducted by Crawford Wiley, Director of Music and a lay clerk in Christ Church Cathedral.
The second part of the concert will be a selection of beautiful Advent carols and songs of hope and expectation as we prepare for the celebration of Christmas.
For more information visit www.southoxonchoir.org

11/10/2025

Good news for choir members: singing in a choir slows brain ageing, according to The Times today.

05/10/2025

A date for your diary: South Oxfordshire Choir is going to be staging a concert of Advent music including Haydn’s Miss Sancti Nicolai – the mass of St. Nicholas – on the evening of Saturday 22 November in Wallingford’s St. Mary’s Church. Tickets for the concert, in what is the Choir’s 30th anniversary year, will be available at the door on the night. Joined by two wonderful soloists, the Choir will be conducted by Crawford Wiley, a lay clerk in Christ Church Cathedral and the Choir’s Director of Music. It promises to be a special night.

03/09/2025

Ed Nix, the photographer at the Wallingford Herald kindly sent over some of his lovely images of South Oxfordshire Choir's concert rehearsal at Christ Church Cathedral - including this one.

29/08/2025

Just a heads up that South Oxfordshire Choir’s new term starts on Monday 8th September at 8pm at St. Mary’s Church in Wallingford. We’d love to see some new faces there. Newcomers can just turn up on the night and they’ll be given three free rehearsals.
This term, we’re going to be learning to sing Haydn’s Missa Sancti Nicolai, which is considered a very singable mass. It's not overly complex, with well-defined phrases making it accessible for choirs. The performance date is set for Saturday 22nd November.

29/08/2025