How to Join

Aberdeen Bach Choir is especially keen to recruit new singers. Currently, there is no audition process - an ability to sing in tune is the minimum requirement! Anyone interested in joining the choir should contact the Membership Secretary by email but you can just turn up on the night, at least for the first two or three rehearsals.

Rehearsals are on Tuesday evenings from 7:30-9:30 pm. Rehearsals for the December 2010 concert will begin on Tuesday 24 August in the Assembly Hall of Aberdeen Grammar School, Skene Street, where there is plenty of car parking in the school grounds - entry by Skene Street. Please arrive early (from 7:10 pm) to collect music and be introduced to others in your part.

The yearly subscription for 2010-11 is £55 or £35 (concessions). Students are free! Newcomers are allowed two or three weeks settling in before confirming their membership and being asked to pay their subscription. There is normally a small charge for music hire.

On the weekend of performances (normally on a Sunday evening in St Machar's Cathedral), the usual practice is to have rehearsals with orchestra and soloists on the Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon. Members are expected to participate in all rehearsals (those missing more than three rehearsals must ask permission of the Musical Director to sing in the performance). Attendance at the weekend rehearsals is essential and absence will be allowed only under exceptional circumstances.

The performance of four Magnificats will take place on Sunday 5 December at 7:45 pm in St Machar's Cathedral, with rehearsals in the Cathedral on Saturday 4 December from 6:30-9:30 pm and on Sunday 5 December from 2-5 pm. Tuesday rehearsals in Aberdeen Grammar School run until Tuesday 30 November, with a break on Tuesday 12 and Tuesday 19 October during the school October holidays.

For concerts, men must wear a dinner-suit, white shirt and black bow tie, while women must wear sleeved, ankle-length black dresses (with jewellery kept to a minimum).

We like to think of ourselves as a friendly choir, and if you make yourself known to one of our Committee members (the Membership Secretary, Sandra Massey, is likely to approach any new faces who have not already contacted her), we will ensure you are introduced to someone who sings the same part as you, to help you fit in quickly. Your section representative is your first point of contact.

Section representatives 2009-10

Sop 1

Sandra Massey

Sop 2

Dawn Smith

Alto 1

Judy Junker

Alto 2

Libby Brand

Tenor

Fraser Westwood

Bass

James Friend