The Reading Concert Singers have been making music in the area around Reading, Berkshire, UK, since the late 1960s. Originally, the choir was formed from the merging of several smaller local choirs, with the name 'Reading Musical Society' and subsequently renamed itself the 'Reading Concert Singers' during the 1980s.

We have a wide age range and enjoy a variety of music from light operas by Gilbert & Sullivan, folk music, madrigals and part-songs to carols at Christmas, oratorios and church music.

Our past sacred and secular choral performances have included:
Vivaldi 'Gloria', Mendelssohn 'Elijah', Handel 'Messiah', Faure 'Requiem', Rutter 'Requiem', Elgar 'From the Bavarian Highlands', Coleridge-Taylor 'Hiawatha's Wedding Feast', Britten 'Ceremony of Carols', Menotti 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' and Haydn 'Nelson Mass'.

Our theatrical presentations have included:
Strauss 'Die Fledermaus', German 'Merrie England' and Gilbert & Sullivan 'Gondoliers', 'Yeomen of the Guard', 'Mikado', 'HMS Pinafore', 'Pirates of Penzance', 'Patience' and 'Iolanthe'.

We have also held highly successful and amusing Edwardian Music Hall evenings with audience participation.

At Easter, we join forces with some of our local church choirs for an Act of Worship, alternating each year between Maunder 'Olivet to Calvary' and Stainer 'Crucifixion'.

We regularly give concerts featuring folk songs, madrigals and a variety of modern favourites, often with guest instrumentalists.

We have also taken part, alongside our friends from other local choral societies, in televised recordings for the B.B.C. 'Songs of Praise' programme.

If you would like more information, please email us, either at the address below or at the addresses on the other linked RCS web pages.