Welcome to East Malling Singers


   

Our next sing - Saturday 13th December:
Christmas Concert: including Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Christmas Carols, lots of your favourites - and our customary mince pie and mulled wine interval!

 

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NOVEMBER 2025: Huge thanks to Trianon Music Group for their part in a very enjoyable concert from the Light Side of the repertoire. We haven't held a joint concert for a long time, so they kept us on our toes. Good luck to them in the future in Suffolk and beyond. 

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East Malling Singers & Trianon Music Group November 25 - 2

East Maling Singers and Trianon Music Group November 2025

     
  SEPTEMBER 2025: Rehearsals under way for a joint concert with the touring Trianon Music Group, coming to Kent from Ipswich. This will be an autumnal assemblage, from the more popular end of our sonic spectrum; a cross-cultural choral collaboration featuring tribal tunes showstoppers, nostalgic numbers and some far-flung folksong. Something for everyone!
     
  JULY 2025: A thoroughly enjoyable rendition of Purcell's Dido & Aeneas, thanks not only to our professional soloists, but also the transformation of some EMS members into witches, sorcerers, spirits and sailors! Very well done, all.
     
  MAY 2025: Rehearsals going well as we begin to familiarise ourselves with the Summer repertoire: John Farmer, Thomas Morley, John Bennet and Henry VIII (possibly); with Henry Purcell's Dido & Aeneas, of course.
     
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JANUARY 2025: Our presentation of Mendelssohn's Elijah KCF-logo-PNG
in April was very generously supported by a grant from the Kent Community Foundation, allowing young, student musicians the opportunity to play alongside and learn from professionals, accompanying our large four-part choir.

     
  DECEMBER 2024: A very well-attended Christmas concert, with audience particularly impressed with the ancient Quechua tongue-twister we got just right in the end, thanks to Ciara! Now a rest before we start work on Elijah...
     
  OCTOBER 2024: A grand effort from one and all in our latest presentation of Mozart's Requiem, supported by Nicola Corbishley (soprano), Elizabeth Green (mezzo), Brian Smith Walters (tenor) and Simon Thorpe (bass).
     
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VIPS from the Howard Goodall workshop L-R:
Anna Wynn (harpist), Nick Bland (organist), Gillian Ramm (soprano),
Howard Goodall (composer), Ciara Considine (EMS Music Director),
Simon Thorpe (baritone), John Hayden (pianist)

     
  OCTOBER 2023: An absolutely fantastic day with 150 singers under the direction of Howard Goodall, guiding us through his “Eternal Light: A Requiem”.
     
   
     
   

East Malling Singers is a friendly, mixed-voice, amateur choir of approximately 80 members that performs a very wide variety of sacred and secular music. Usually we perform four concerts per year at St James the Great Church, East Malling and are often joined by professional soloists and orchestra, as well as guest singers.

We always welcome new members. You do not have to be able to sight-read music, although it helps, nor do you have to come to every rehearsal, and practising with a CD or online recording between rehearsals is also useful. We rehearse on Wednesday evenings during term time, at St James the Great Church, where our concerts are also held. Please ask the Membership Secretary on 01622 675592 or Contact Us for more details....or even better, come along to the next concert!

     
   

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