About the Choir
The Phoenix Singers is an auditioned chamber choir of 40-50 voices based in the lovely town of Shrewsbury, England. The choir was founded in 1965 and is 'one of the pre-eminent musical organisations in Shropshire'.
Our repertoire encompasses a wide variety of music, including unaccompanied Renaissance motets and madrigals, major works from the Baroque and Classical periods, smaller-scale pieces from the 19th century, and a significant amount of music from the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Songs of
Heaven and Earth
Saturday 14 November 2026, 7.30pm
St.Chad's Church, Shrewsbury SY1 1JX
The performance will include Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Britten's Five Flowers Songs, Festival Te Deum and Two Part Songs and Barber's Reincarnations and Sure On This Shining Night.
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Join us
We are always looking for experienced choral singers to join the choir. All voices are welcome, but especially basses at present.
The choir's repertoire is eclectic and challenging, so you need to be able to read music reasonably fluently, and either be able to sight-read or be willing to learn the music between rehearsals.
To find out more, or for an informal discussion, please click below.
Previous Concerts
The Phoenix Singers perform three or four times each year, and aim to achieve a balance of music from different periods from Renaissance to 21st century music, from different countries, and both sacred and secular. In recent years, familiar choral works such as Handel's Messiah, Fauré's Requiem and Allegri's Miserere, have been performed alongside less well-known music, such as Carl Rütti's Requiem, Will Todd's Christus est stella, and Rudolph Mauersberger's Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst.
To find out more, explore our previous concerts below.
Support us
The Phoenix Singers receive no public subsidy, and so we are reliant on our audiences to support our aim of performing a wide range of high quality choral music in and around Shrewsbury.
If you have enjoyed our concerts, please consider supporting us further by making a one-off donation, or sponsoring a specific concert.
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