Choirs and Singing

The School choirs range from the Junior Choirs to the Senior Chamber Choir which is an SATB choir of some 30 voices. Other choirs include the Year Two Choir, Junior Boys' Choir, Junior Girls' Choir, Cantemus, the Clerkes of Llandaff and the Middle School Chamber Choir.  Recent performances by the Senior Chamber Choir have included the Fauré Requiem, Carmina Burana (Carl Orff) and 'Trial by Jury' (Gilbert and Sullivan).  This year they performed Britten's 'Saint Nicolas' Cantata and will perform 'HMS Pinafore' (Gilbert and Sullivan)while in this academic year.  In 2007, they joined with other Woodard schools in a performance of the Berlioz Requiem in Birmingham's Symphony Hall. Sometimes, the School choirs join together to give performances at School concerts. All the choirs perform regularly both in the School and elsewhere.

Individual singing lessons are given to a wide range of pupils and there are two singing teachers on the staff. Pupils are able to take Associated Board examinations in singing if they wish. The whole School sings once every week in the Junior and Senior Hymn Practices which are also used for rehearsing congregational settings and other communal singing.