Welcome to Egham Choral

Egham Choral: a choir for all singers

Egham Choral, based in Runnymede, is a friendly, un-auditioned, choral society, with a full social calendar. We welcome new singers in all voice parts and sing a wide range of music, from classic and modern choral works to fun short pieces. If you are interested in joining us, please feel free to pop along to one of our rehearsals. We rehearse on Mondays at 7:30pm in the United Church of Egham, High St, Egham, TW20 9EX (Egham High Street, opposite Iceland).

The choir holds three annual concerts and our Spring concert is accompanied by professional orchestral musicians. Hugh Beckwith has been our Musical Director since September 2023 and during rehearsals, we are accompanied by well-known local pianist, David Darby, who is celebrating 50 years with Egham Choral.

We performed Mendelssohn’s thrilling work, Elijah, on 18th April 2026, with the Aurora Orchestra in the Church of the Assumption of our Lady, Englefield Green – with audience and musical director in agreement that is was one of our most successful concerts in recent years!

To round off our 2025-26 season our Summer concert, on 5th July, 2026, Summer on Stage,  features music from Purcell through to Lloyd Webber with many favourite Opera Choruses in between

The Autumn term starts on Monday 4th Sept 2026  in the United Church of Egham at 7.30pm. Our Autumn Term promises to be special as we are excited to be performing Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, seasonal works and a new work by Nathan James Dearden, composed especially for our Winter Concert in Royal Holloway’s Chapel on 19th December 2026. We are grateful to our late Chair, Carol Hewitt for the bequest that enabled this commission.  To join us, just come along to a rehearsal – all voice parts welcome! If you want to try out choral singing or haven’t sung since school, you can come and try out singing with us in the following week on 14th September 2026 at our Open Rehearsal. We will be singing Fauré’s Requiem at our Spring Concert, on 24th April 2027.

Our performances are generously supported by The Humphrey Richardson Taylor Charitable Trust.

About our most recent concert:

April 2026

We sang (most of) Mendelssohn’s Elijah and our performance was enhanced by our lovely soloists (see below), as well as four additional soloists from Royal Holloway College who performed the Octet with members of the choir.

 

Egham Choral: Celebrating Music Together