ABOUT THE CHOIR

The Beckenham Junior Choir is for children aged 7 to 11, and of all musical abilities. We rehearse weekly in Beckenham Baptist Church in Elm Road, Beckenham, (see a map here). and have a broad repertoire, which embraces everything from great to obscure works, from folk music to music hall songs, from sacred to light music.

The Beckenham Junior Choir was established in 1993.It gives children in the Beckenham area a unique singing opportunity covering a wide variety of music in a non-competitive atmosphere. The director, John Webber, is an accomplished musician and teacher, and is currently Director of Music at St. John's, East Dulwich.

We now have the expert services of our singing coach, Stuart Kale, well known in operatic circles.

Due to the choir's size and the number of people involved in direction, it is possible to spend some time divided into several separate groups, allowing younger members to build their confidence with simpler music, whilst continuing to challenge the older singers.

BECKENHAM YOUTH VOICES

The popularity of the choir has led to the setting up of this group for boys and girls of secondary school age. It has proved a popular way of members of the junior choir continuing to sing and perform as part of our concert programme.

We hold regular concerts (normally at the end of term), and although our base is the Baptist Church, we have performed concerts at St.Davids College, West Wickham and as far afield as Eastbourne and Newchurch, Romney Marsh, Kent and Southwold, Suffolk .

Read a complete Pdf archive of our previous concerts:
Archive1993-2008

In January 2007 we sang Evensong at Rochester Cathedral to make a 100 strong choir with the Amici Cantantes.

INTERESTED IN JOINING US?

The choir meets each Wednesday evening during term times from 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm at Beckenham Baptist Church, Elm Road, Beckenham. We are always pleased to hear from people interested in joining.

To cover the costs of buying and renting music, use of the church and obtaining performing rights, we have fees of £22 for one child per term, £33 for two and £41 for three children per term.

Places are available for membership at the moment, Please get in touch with us to of a place in the choir.

telephone: 020 8650 9164
e mail: maggieandjohn1@googlemail.com

Welcome to all our new members and families!

Download or listen to the practice music, click here to go to our - downloads page.
This page has links to the music to be practiced for our concerts.

See photos of the St James' Church Concert on
5th December 2007 here: Our Christmas Concert

See photos of the Elm Church Autumn Concert on
13th October 2007 here: Our Autumn Concert

OUR NEXT CONCERT:

A double CD of the choirs!

 

The perfect present, on sale now!

Click the player to hear a sample, wait a little while for it to download and play.

Thanks to those of you that have already bought this double CD -

they make ideal presents and are a wonderful souvenir for all involved with our popular choir - contact John on 020 8650 9164 or by E mail maggieandjohn1@googlemail.com

Alternatively Christina Edwards on 020 8658 9975 chris@lancasters.co.uk
to arrange to pick one up.

BUY THE CD SET FOR A WONDERFUL GIFT AND HELP OUR 2008 FUNDRAISING EFFORT!

 

Includes the following tracks:

Hey, little hen Why am I always the bridesmaid? Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Rainbow Twins Light of the World Polly little town of Bethlehem Bessie, the Black Cat The Holly & The Ivy Golden Fish Swimming in the Lake Day-Oh! How far is it to Bethlehem? Water come a me eye Bring him home (Les Miserables) Bye, Bye, Blackbird The Fireman's Not for Me Laudate Dominum Sing a Rainbow The Little Road to Bethlehem Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner Georgia She moved through the fair The Curragh of Kildare Leaning on a Lamp-post Dirty Old Town Sisters The Seven Joys of Mary O ihr Herren (Op.37, No.3) The Three Kings This place is on my mind A Place in the Choir Yesterday A Bunch of Thyme The Hippopotamus Song Twilight Any Old Iron? Dalmatian Cradle Song The Leaving of Liverpool The Lord is my Shepherd Calon Lan Bananas in Pyjamas The First Mercy When I'm Sixty Four God's Gifts I am a small part of the world