We are a friendly choral society of about 50 members. We meet weekly in term time and rehearse for three concerts a year.
The choir mostly draws its members from the Bishops Cleeve/Woodmancote area to the north of Cheltenham, England.
Rehearsals are held on Tuesdays at 7.30pm at Bishops Cleeve Primary School (see maps) and take two hours, including a tea break.
We usually perform in three concerts each year. Most of our concerts are held in Bishops Cleeve but we also perform in other venues, including overseas. We have performed in Hungary, Tuscany and the Salzburg area of Austria.
Alastair Cameron began his musical training at an early age as a church chorister and studying Piano and Clarinet. He went on to study music at Oxford Brookes where he began conducting. After graduating Alastair started the London Contemporary Music Group and now continues to work as a conductor and as a composer of both concert works and music for Film and TV alongside teaching and performing.
Helen McNaught trained as a musician gaining a BA (Hons) and followed this with a one year Post Graduate Teaching course. She was Head of Music in a large Comprehensive in Somerset for 11 years where she directed 2 choirs and the orchestra as well as helping with plays and musicals. She was also fully involved in the Community and was Musical Director for 2 Community Plays. Since moving to Cheltenham she has concentrated on her family, piano teaching, and accompanying for exams, auditions and festivals. She is delighted to join Cleeve Chorale as their accompanist.
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Cleeve Chorale can trace its origins back to the Bishops Cleeve Choral and Dramatic Society which was founded in the early 1930s. The society originated from a small group of singers who met in Bishops Cleeve Rectory in the 1920s.
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