Who would possibly sing music by Mozart, Abba, Lloyd Webber, Bizet, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Handel and Elton John all within one concert? Well, that would be Concentus Chorale!

Concentus Chorale is one of the latest singing groups to be formed within the town and held its inaugural rehearsal on 5 September 2005 when 45 people turned up in wanting to try something new! Since then we have gone from strength to strength and our current membership is averaging around 80 singers.

‘Concentus’ is an Italian Word meaning “Voices in Harmony” and the predominant aim of the choir is to do just that; sing together in perfect harmony but in a carefully controlled way and in expressing the music we are performing ensuring that it is done in radiating warmth, feeling and passion.  Any group can sing together but to sing collectively as one with an equally shared passion is by far the most difficult and challenging objective to achieve.

The choir was formed in recognition of the constant request to be something ‘different’ to the many other choirs with which Eastbourne is blessed. Of those choirs many perform a regular theme or style of music such as Oratorio, Spiritual, Religious, Modern or Easy Listening but few, if any, regularly perform concerts involving all of these styles within one programme and it is this feature which makes us ‘so different’ from the rest!

We perform a minimum of two major concerts per year, which involves the learning of a completely new repertoire, but also give a series of smaller concerts as well, be they indoor or open-air so as to ‘keep our hand in’ and present ourselves to a wider audience.

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As in the cliché, ‘An army marches on its stomach’, Concentus Chorale recognise that ‘the success of our performances comes from our members’ and to this end we are always keen to encourage anyone to join us (see Join Us) providing they have the enthusiasm to sing well and derive pleasure from doing it!

When forming the choir we knew that we needed to offer something different; and we believe that we have done just that!

Concentus Chorale Members wiating  to perform, Eastbourne 2007