About Us
Winchester Music Club is a choir of some 120 members and an associated orchestra that has been performing concerts in Winchester for over 80 years.
The Club typically performs two concerts a year, in November and spring, and hosts a Come and Sing, open to all.
Winchester Music Club was founded in 1925 by Sir George Dyson, then Master of Music at Winchester College. There is a close link with the college: our current musical director, Nicholas Wilks, is also Master of Music there and we are joined each year for the November concert by the Winchester College Quiristers and Glee Club. The resulting choir of 200 or so singers performs major works in the magnificent setting of Winchester Cathedral.
The spring concerts, in March or April, sung by Winchester Music Club alone, tend to be of smaller-scale works. Recently these have taken place in New Hall Winchester College, St Swithun’s Performing Arts Centre and Winchester Cathedral.
Since taking over as musical director in 2003 Nicholas Wilks has led us in an adventurous and varied programme of works from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. In this time we have been lucky enough to perform with two vocal legends: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa in 2008 and Bryn Terfel in 2009.