The Wessex Chamber Choir is opening its doors to potential new members with an open rehearsal, offering an exciting opportunity to come and try out the choir, enjoy refreshments and chat with members.

The choir consists of 25 to 30 mixed voices, with members coming from a variety of musical backgrounds. They meet weekly in Odiham to rehearse and performs to acclaim in a variety of venues across the region, including visits to cathedrals around the country several times each year to take part in services in the absence of the resident choir.

Musical director Richard Stevens described the choir’s repertoire as “a varied and mixed bag which includes, as well as sacred music, songs from stage shows, folk songs and works by the greats such as Cole Porter, George Gershwin, John Lennon, Bob Chilcott and George Sheering”.

The Wessex Chamber Choir was founded in 1990 and since February 2009 has been under the direction of Mr Stevens, who studied at the University of Durham where he was a Choral Scholar in the Cathedral Choir.

If you have a reasonable ability to sight read and would like to attend the open rehearsal at Robert May’s School, Odiham, on June 21 at 7.45pm, email [email protected].