Welcome to East Malling Singers
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4th July - Joint Summer Concert with Maidstone Choral Union INDEPENDENCE DAY: 250 years of American independence gives us a reason to present works by some of the great American composers from across the ages. We welcome our friendly next-door choralneighbours for a celebration of American music across the nation's history. | ||||||||||||
| 24th October: Rossini ~ Petite Messe Solenelle Rossini's glorious masterpiece, his "last sin of old age" This is a "Come & Sing" occasion - details of joining us will be posted here soon | ||||||||||||
| 12th December: Christmas Concert Our traditional gathering, always popular - sing some of your favourite carols with us, and of course the famous EMS mince pies and mulled wine social. Featuring Rutter's Nativity Carol | ||||||||||||
| 20th March 2027: Spring Concert - featuring Mozart's Sparrow Mass K. 220 | ||||||||||||
3rd July 2027: In an addition to the EMS program, we are joining  Maidstone & Medway Sinfonia in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony | ||||||||||||
| Recent Performances | ||||||||||||
| Some of our recent performances | ||||||||||||
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FEBRUARY 2026: We're very pleased to accept a  very generous grant from the Kent Community Foundation to help pay for professional instrumentalists and vocal soloists | ||||||||||||
| ♬ | JANUARY 2026: A warm welcome to our guests joining for rehearsals of Carmina Burana! | |||||||||||
| ♬ | DECEMBER 2025: Another year, another fabulous EMS Christmas celebration. Including Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Christmas Carols, The Wexford Carol - featuring our good friend Simon Thorpe, Rutter's Christmas Lullaby, and Chilcott's Christmastide, along with many favourites for our loyal audience to sing with us. Happy Christmas - we're back in January! | |||||||||||
| ♬ | 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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| ♬ | 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. | |||||||||||
| ♬ | JANUARY 2025: Our presentation of Mendelssohn's Elijah | |||||||||||
| ♬ | 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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| 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. Please ask the Membership Secretary on 01622 675592 or Contact Us for more details....or even better, come along to the next concert, usually held, as the rehearsals, at St James, Church Walk, East Malling ME19 6AG | ||||||||||||
