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As part of this year’s Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival, Dorking Choral Society invites singers of all abilities to a joyful Come & Sing day on Saturday 27th September 2025, featuring Vivaldi’s Gloria, conducted by Daniel Mahoney.
Join us at Crossways Community Baptist Church, Junction Road, Dorking RH4 3HB from 10:00 am for a day of uplifting music-making. Tickets are just £18, available in advance or on the door, and include music hire and refreshments. Please bring your own lunch—come and be part of the music!
Dorking Choral Society has returned from a memorable concert tour of Romania, where they performed in some of the country’s most historic and atmospheric venues.
The tour began in Brașov, where the choir gave a moving performance of Mozart’s Requiem in the majestic Black Church, one of the most significant Gothic buildings in Eastern Europe. A recording of this performance is available to view on YouTube.
Next, the choir visited the charming UNESCO-listed village of Viscri, where they toured The King’s House and collaborated with the local village choir for a joyful joint performance in the fortified church, steeped in centuries of history.
The tour culminated in Sibiu, as part of the renowned FITS25 Sibiu International Theatre Festival (Sibfest). Dorking Choral Society again performed Mozart’s Requiem, this time in the Lutheran Cathedral, with the concert streamed live on the Sibfest website to international audiences.
The tour was a celebration of musical connection, cultural exchange, and artistic collaboration, and will be long remembered by choir members and audiences alike.
We were proud to present our Summer Concert 2025 - a Fantasy of Folk Songs:
We performed:
Marten Jansson - Missa Popularis
R. Vaughan Williams - Five English Folk Songs
Cecilia McDowall - A Fancy of Folk Songs
with The Janus Ensemble and Oliver Sullivan on piano, conducted by Daniel Mahoney.
Our Autumn Concert, on 16th November:
Haydn - Nelson Mass
Peter Vasks – Dona Nobis Pacem, and the
Herbert Sumsion – They that go down to the sea in ships
The Missa in angustiis (Mass for troubled times), is a Mass setting by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn. It is one of the six masses written near the end of his life that are seen as a culmination of his composition of liturgical music.
At St Martin's, Dorking
