Parish Music : Choral Delights

Parish Music : Choral Delights
Saturday 28 February 2009
Overbury Church 8pm

The Oriel Singers had just won the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year competition when they last sang for Parish Music in 2005. Founded in 1975 as a quartet meeting in Oriel Terrace, Cheltenham, the original group sang simply for pleasure and had no intention of performing. The choir soon grew and Tim Morris was invited to become director.
Numbering about 28, the members still meet primarily for their own enjoyment but now give around 12 concerts a year at home and abroad. They have always had the objective of producing a high standard of a cappella music both sacred and secular, serious and light-hearted.
The singers come from all walks of life. Conductor Tim Morris, who is also assistant conductor of the Cheltenham Bach Choir, studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and is an arable farmer.
Parish Music, now in its 14th year, provides concerts of classical music in the five country churches of the Parish: Ashton under Hill, Beckford, Overbury, Alstone and Teddington. Concerts start at 8pm and conclude with an opportunity to meet the performers and enjoy a drink of wine or fruit juice in the church.
Admission £10; students free.