| The Occam Singers
We are pleased to sing from a wide repertoire, including unaccompanied fifteenth century church music and madrigals, familiar choral works and twenty-first century pieces. Our annual season includes full-scale concerts with a professional orchestra (the New London Sinfonia) as well as smaller-scale performances, sometimes a capella. Some works we have performed:
Bach: Mass in B Minor, Singet Dem Herrn and Jesu, Meine Freude
Bruckner: E Minor Mass and Ecce Sacerdos
Howells: Requiem
Mozart: Coronation Mass, Solemn Vespers and Requiem
O’Neill: Music (a poem by Percy Shelley)
Purcell: The Bell Anthem, Ode to St Cecilia and Funeral Sentences
Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum
Schubert: Mass in G
Our rehearsals and concerts are held in the Guildford area and we are always pleased to welcome new members.
Singers have a wide range of musical backgrounds and ‘day jobs’ and a hallmark of our choir is the importance placed on friendship and fun.
We have sung at many venues and events across South East England and have sung services at some wonderful cathedrals further afield. We employ a professional Music Director; David Gibson who has worked extensively with some of the UK's leading choirs and orchestras. We undertake regular vocal training workshops engaging the services of professional vocal trainers. Between 1998 and 2013 we also worked with composer Nicholas O’Neill as our associate music director, from whom we commissioned several choral pieces.
Our concerts and events benefit local and national charities; since 1982 the Occam Singers has raised over £100,000. Much of the Occam Singers’ fundraising success reflects the generosity of our sponsors, of our very supportive Friends, and of course of our concert audiences.
The Occam Singers can be booked to sing for your special occasion; weddings, civil ceremonies, funerals and corporate functions. |
