Exeter Festival Chorus

Our choir of around 80 singers has a proud history of exciting and innovative choral concerts and performances during the past 30 years in venues in and around Exeter and the south-west. We also have established links with partner choirs in Germany and France.

The first season (2021/22) under our new Musical Director, Andrea Brown, was a great success, as shown by our concert reviews, which are full of praise for the choir: ‘a sparkle in their eyes and joy in their voices’, praising the choir’s ability to sing ‘a demanding programme of highly varied styles and textures’, and noting Andrea’s ‘ability to draw out a fine array of colours alongside precision and vivacity’.

The current 2022/23 season takes us into our 30th anniversary year, culminating in an anniversary concert at Exeter Cathedral on 15th July 2023: Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Southern Sinfonia and international soloists, two German guest choirs and Schola Exe, the youth and junior choir of Exeter Cathedral. (Full details can be found in the What’s On section.)

Our welcoming and friendly choir sings a broad repertoire from early music to contemporary and jazz in regular collaboration with other choirs and with professional musicians, both instrumental and vocal. Members of the choir also audition for solo and semi-chorus roles and the degree of accomplishment is also mentioned in concert reviews.

In addition, we are developing community outreach activities, supporting fundraising events and taking us to new audiences (young and old), both as a whole choir and in smaller ensembles. For our singers and audiences alike, EFC looks forward to continuing our musical adventures into an even brighter future.