Chantry Quire embarks on its 25th anniversary season

These are exciting times for Chantry Quire as it embarks on its 25th anniversary season, 2024-25.

The choir was formed in 1999 in Chichester by Christopher Larley with the twin aims of helping young local singers to gain experience and promoting new music. It has been directed by Peter Allwood since 2016, now drawing singers from across Sussex and beyond, giving concerts in various locations across the county.

Peter said: “Chantry Quire are a group of committed, dedicated singers from the West Sussex area who love singing challenging music. They are on the whole good readers and they are good learners. They can work quite quickly through the early stages of learning music which means that we can get on to the musicality of it all swiftly. That’s what I find the most enjoyable part of it all. We can find ourselves with some quite complex programmes though obviously we do try to design our programmes to be attractive to the audiences because they are obviously the most important part of it all.”

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