Wantage Choral Society | Wantage, Oxfordshire

WELCOME TO WANTAGE CHORAL SOCIETY

We are a thriving mixed voice choir with over 50 members. Each year we perform three concerts – two normally in Wantage Parish Church with the summer concert taking place in Letcombe Regis Village Hall. We have a long tradition of combining the classics with contemporary music including selections from operas, stage shows and films

Our first concert of 2026 was in March.

We performed Vivaldi - Gloria, Haydn - Te Deum and Mozart - Solemn Vespers K339 and were delighted to welcome back the four splendid soloists from our previous concert - Catherine Hooper - soprano, Mia Seracino - Alto Toshi Ogita - Tenor and Jack Redman - Bass.

(Pictured above with WCS Musical Director Hannah Zaki)

The concert was a complete sell-out and the audience was hugely appreciative with one member remarking that it was one of the best concerts that WCS had done.We certainly enjoyed performing and it was so good to have new members taking part.

Our summer concert will be on Saturday 27 June at 7.30 in Letcombe Regis Village Hall when we will be singing:

Little Jazz Madrigals by Bob Chilcott - we will be singing four jazzy settings of madrigals by Thomas Morley, John Bennet and Orlando Gibbons, originally composed in late 16th and early 17th centuries

For the Beauty of the Earth by John Rutter - one of his most uplifting compositions

A Season to Sing by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange

- A Season to Sing is a choral re-imagining of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons composed in 2025 to mark the piece's 300th anniversary. Under the auspices of the Royal School of Church Music, it was commissioned by 55 choirs around the world and received over 50 performances across 5 continents in its first year. It is a truly ravishing piece of choral music.

DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
Hannah Zaki

Hannah has a BA in Music from Hertford College, Oxford – where she was organ scholar, an MA (with distinction) in Choral Conducting from The Royal Academy of Music.

ACCOMPANIST
Gabriele Damiani

Previously Chapel Organist and Music Teacher at St Edward’s, Oxford, Gabriele Damiani has served as Director of Music at Our Lady’s, Abingdon (OLA), where he led a team of fifteen Visiting Music Teachers and oversaw the school’s full academic and practical music programme.

PRESIDENT

Christine Cairns

Christine has sung all over the world in concerts and recitals and has become best known for her interpretation of the late romantic repertoire, particularly Mahler.