We just love to sing!

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Whether it’s the Brahms Requiem at Christ Church Cathedral or Rutter’s Feel The Spirit at home in Wallingford…it’s that passion that’s kept our choir singing for 30 years.  

 

And new singers keep joining us. Many are finding their voices again, remembering how they loved singing at school. Others have caught the singing bug more recently, using our choir as a friendly place to build up confidence.

 

“The choir is extremely welcoming,” said one new member recently. “Rehearsals are fun while developing our abilities.”

 

That focus on improving is key for our choir. Loving to sing means learning to sing better. We’re a non-auditioned choir with different levels of ability, but we’re all committed to achieving the best we can.

 

“Our choir certainly has fun,” Music Director Crawford Robotham told BBC Radio Oxford recently, “but they also take our concert rehearsals very seriously - in the way that people take what they really enjoy seriously. They love singing but they value it too.”

 

Why not give us a go…and see if we’re right for you. We offer three free sessions so you can try us out before you join.

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Crawford Robotham sets our music direction

 

A good choir heavily depends on its musical leader for success. We’re delighted to introduce you to our Music Director, Crawford Robotham. 

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Crawford, a native of Florida, took his Master's in Sacred Music from the University of Notre Dame, studying organ with Professor Emeritus Dr Craig Cramer, and conducting with the late Dr Carmen-Helena Téllez.

 

Before beginning his current post as a bass lay clerk in the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, he served for seven years as the Director of Liturgy and Music at St Jude the Apostle in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. During this time, Crawford was a member of the vocal ensemble Aperi Animam, as well as the Milwaukee Chamber Choir and the Chant Claire Chamber Choir. Since his move to Oxford in 2021 he has sung with the Oxford Schola Cantorum, the Delius Singers and the Oxford Oratory Choir, and plays continuo for the Basilinda Consort. When not sorting music as the choir librarian at Christ Church, he enjoys baking, reading and poking around churches.

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Crawford joined us in 2023, and we’re all thrilled with the range and quality of our concerts since he arrived. Starting with a delightful selection of part songs for our Songs of Summer concert in 2023, we performed Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle in St Mary's Wallingford in February 2024, widely viewed as one of our best concerts ever.​

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Highlights of the following two years were performances of John Rutter’s Requiem and Feel the Spririt, Haydn's Missa Sancti Nicolai, and the magnificent Brahms Requiem, which we performed in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford in August 2025 to celebrate our choir’s 30th anniversary.

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We have exciting plans for 2026 too, including concerts of Dyson’s Hierusalem in March, Vivaldi’s Gloria in July and a concert celebrating women composers in November. See Our Next Concerts page for details.

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