2004

In tonight's programme, the choir will sing an exciting range of music, including:

folk songs from different parts of the world, and songs from the masters (with works by Aaron Copland, Benjamin Britten, Pergolesi, Mendelssohn, Fauré, Elgar and Lloyd-Webber).

Instrumental and vocal soloists will be drawn from the outstanding young musicians in the choir, and listeners can be assured of a dynamic, varied and colourful programme of music.

Wyre Forest Young Voices, the youth choir of the Kidderminster Choral Society, consists of talented young people up to the age of 18 years. It has gained a reputation both locally and internationally, giving recitals in Bath Abbey and Wells Cathedral, and touring Germany, the Netherlands and Cyprus. In 2002  it was named 'Choir of the Day' in the Midlands area of the Sainsbury's Choir of the Year competition. Adjudicators have commented on the choir's "lovely blended tone quality and rhythmic vitality", it's "glorious harmony" and the polish and discipline which enable the choir to sing softly and to create a "magical peace". Members of the choir have recently gone on to study at university and music college, evidence of the important educational bias of the choir's work.