City of Birmingham Choir
The City of Birmingham Choir is a large, well-established choral society based in Birmingham, UK. It promotes five or more concerts each season, mostly in Symphony Hall or Town Hall in Birmingham. Many of its concerts are accompanied by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Occasional concerts take place elsewhere, such as in Tewkesbury Abbey or Worcester Cathedral. The choir also participates in other organisations' concerts, for example, centenary performances of Edward Elgar's major oratorios Dream of Gerontius, The Apostles, and The Kingdom with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus under a previous conductor Sakari Oramo.
Rehearsals take place at the Friends' Meeting House, Bull Street in central Birmingham on Tuesday evenings from 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm.
The choir's conductor and music director (since 2002) is Adrian Lucas.
The City of Birmingham Choir was founded in March 1921 and its first president was the prominent figure Sir Granville Bantock, who was Principal of the Birmingham and Midland Institute School of Music and a renowned composer. The new choir presented its first concert at the Town Hall on 28 November, conducted by Joseph Lewis.
Later conductors included G D Cunningham, David Willcocks (1950–57) and Meredith Davies (1957–64), and then Christopher Robinson (1964–2002).
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