Welcome to the Saint Mary choir blog.

The church has both an adult and junior choir. We are affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music(RSCM). The junior choir are provided with tuition to enable them to gain their RSCM medals.

The senior choir is a SATB choir with its main responsibility to sing at the 10am Sunday service, including an anthem. See below for more details.

Our choirs do not require any fees to belong to them. New members to both the senior and junior choir are always welcome, whatever their standard. If you are interested in joining us please contact our Director of Music (Joanna) via the  Contact Us page.

Sunday, 9 May 2021

Sunday 9th May 2021 Easter 6

 Ave Verum  Text Innocent VI  Music David Terry

Ave Verum Corpus translates as 

Hail, true body born of the Virgin Mary;
truely suffering and sacrificed on the cros for mankind.
You, whose pierced side yielded true blood,
be our food in the trials of death.

These words attributed to Innocent VI have been used by many composers. In St Mary's we have sung versions by Mozart, Elgar, Gounod and Byrd. David Terry is the latest to our repertoire.

David Terry studied Music at Lincoln College, Oxford and organ with the late David Sanger. He is an experienced choral conductor with both professional and amateur groups and has conducted much of the larger choral repertoire with orchestra. He is Director of Music at one of London's top state schools where he leads one of the largest music departments in the capital. In addition, David is very active as a composer and arranger and is published by Novello. Taken from Linkedin.

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