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Southern England's most exciting male voice choir!
Registered charity number: 1112732
Choir raises funds for cancer charity
DECEMBER 5: Croydon Male Voice Choir staged the first of its two annual Whitgift Centre appearances on Sunday, raising money for the cancer charity SECHC. The South East Cancer Help Centre, based in Purley, assists cancer patients with advice, support and practical help.
CMVC sings for cancer patients at Whitgift Centre
The centre first opened in 1983 and currently helps some 300 cancer patients, among them CMVC bass Peter Smith.
Choir shows out at Sandilands
OCTOBER 4: Our choir put on a splendid show at the Sandilands Club Open Day on Sunday, October 1. The Sandilands club wanted to demonstrate its recent enormous improvements to local residents and to boost its social membership.
Sandilands Open Day - good show by CMVC (photo JWT)
CMVC mounted a display near the entrance to the bar area, staged by John Ward Turner who erected an impressive array of photographs depicting recent concerts, tours and our musical personnel. He was supported by Andrew Dadley who set up CD and DVD displays and an iPad showing the choir website.
Dream debut for our new pianist
SEPTEMBER 25: Pianist Felipe Rodrigues played his debut concert with the Croydon choir at Banstead United Reform Church on Saturday. The concert was the first of the new concert season and an audience approaching two hundred filled the auditorium to capacity.
Debut pianist Felipe Rodrigues with music director Richard Hoyle at Banstead
Richard Hoyle, the choir’s music director, said: "Felipe, who has had little time to prepare for his debut, played brilliantly and with a great deal of confidence. The choir, feeling strongly supported by Felipe, sang with real focus and enjoyment.”
New season ahead!
SEPTEMBER 1: The Croydon choir returns to action next week. The choir resumes rehearsals at its Sandilands headquarters on September 7, in preparation for its first concert of the 2017-18 season, to be held at the United Reform Church in Banstead on Saturday September 23.
The choir on its recent Suffolk tour
Choir home from scintillating tour
JULY 18: We are just back from an outstandingly successful choir tour to Suffolk, where we sang three times in a range of delightful settings, had a wonderful audience response, and made lots of new friends.
The choir at Woodbridge - our third Suffolk venue
We began the tour on Friday July 14 with a 45-minute sing to a sizeable lunchtime audience at the cathedral of Bury St Edmunds. That evening we performed at the spectacular Holy Trinity Church at Long Melford, one of the great fifteenth-century Suffolk wool churches.
Songs for a summer evening
JUNE 11: The Croydon choir staged a successful and enjoyable summer concert at Whitgift School yesterday, delighting a 200-plus audience with a selection of pieces, some familiar, some new, from its current repertoire.
The choir lines up before the summer concert
The two new pieces were Scarborough Fair and The Sound of Silence, which the choir has been rehearsing since Christmas. Among the familiar pieces which proved especially popular were Bring Him Home and American Trilogy.