Our kind of music

Headington Singers was founded in 1985 by six enthusiasts, some of them still active with us, to create a local group for choral singers in Headington and East Oxford. Since then we have gone from strength to strength and our membership now numbers around 60 - 70 people, some of them travelling from outside Oxford.

We sing a wide range of music from the renaissance to modern times, from Schütz to Gershwin, offering something for all tastes. In the last few years we have tackled the great choral classics - the sublime Mozart Requiem, Handel's ever-popular 'Zadok the Priest' and other Coronation Anthems, Brahms' intensely moving German Requiem, and Mendelssohn's masterpiece, Elijah. We have also performed less well-known gems such as Dvorak's Stabat Mater, Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb and the Christmas Story by Schütz.

Among contemporary pieces, we commissioned local composer Roger Teichmann to provide a fitting piece for our Spring 2007 Gala Concert to mark the closure of the Radcliffe Infirmary. You can read more about Roger's work, The Serpent God, here. Summer concerts are usually more light-hearted, such as Gilbert and Sullivan's satirical The Mikado.

Most of our concerts have orchestral accompaniment, and from December 2009 this will be provided by the Isis Chamber Orchestra. This enthusiastic group of local players also gives two or three orchestral concerts a year, and you can read more about them on their website: www.isischamberorchestra.org.uk

In July 2007 we did a joint concert with Didcot Choral Society (Haydn's Creation) and we are always looking for opportunities to sing with other groups.