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Programme Contents:

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Introduction from the President and the Festival Director

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International Symposium

Thursday 27th April 6

Opening International Gala Concert

8 - 9

Regional Gala Concerts

Friday 28th April 10

Daytime Singing & Lunchtime Concert

11 - 13 Regional Gala Concerts Saturday 29th April 15

Daytime Singing and Lunchtime Concert

16 - 17 International Competitions

40 Voices and Under category 41 Voices and Over category

20 - 23 Regional Gala Concerts Sunday 30th April 24

Daytime Singing

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Youth International Gala Concert & Competition

26 - 29 Regional Gala Concerts Monday 1st May 31

Daytime Singing

32 - 33 Lunchtime Concert & FinalĂŠ International Gala Concert 34 - 35 International Jury Choir Biographies 36 - 37 International Choirs 38 - 45 UK Choirs

58 - 59 Thank you to our supporters

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46 - 54 Cornwall Choirs

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President Colonel Edward Bolitho OBE, Lord - Lieutenant of Cornwall

Presidents’ Message

This is my first Festival as President and it is a real honour to have been asked to take on the role from my illustrious predecessor. The male voice choral tradition is such a rich part of Cornwall’s heritage and, therefore, I am delighted to be able to celebrate this Eighth International Festival. I join all those involved in the organisation and running of the Festival, as well as the Cornish choirs and those who support male choral singing throughout Cornwall, in welcoming our visiting choirs: over five days, almost 60 choirs will be singing in 50 events at 40 venues.

As well as the 4 International Gala concerts taking place in Truro, concerts are being held in almost twenty towns covering the whole County. Our visiting choirs will see some of Cornwall’s most attractive places when they visit and sing at Tate St Ives, Eden Project, Lost Gardens of Heligan, Trebah Garden, the Minack Theatre, St Michael’s Mount, Land’s End, Pendennis Castle and the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth.

The Festival is a great opportunity to enjoy a wide variety of male choral singing; eight overseas choirs are participating from Australia, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Norway, Russia, Sweden and USA. They will be singing alongside our own Cornish choirs and a record 21 youth and adult choirs from elsewhere in the UK. The competition also features a big increase in the ‘Over 41 Voices’ Competition this year, as well as twelve choirs participating in the festival for the very first time – welcome to you all! A keenly contested competition and a Gala Concert at the Hall for Cornwall for our Youth Choirs will also be showcasing the very best that boys and young men can offer.

I am so pleased to be part of this truly international Festival and thank all those involved in its organisation, especially Rob Elliott the Festival Director, who is directing his first festival with us and brings his Welsh flair to assist in taking the Festival forward. Both Rob and the hardworking Board have done a phenomenal amount to make this Festival such a success; from a grateful Cornwall, thank you.

Festival Director Robert T. Elliot Welcome to an amazing celebration of male choir singing for this, the Eighth Cornwall International Male Choral Festival.

The Founding Director back in 2003 – Dr. Roy Wales and my predecessor Peter Davies, developed this unique Festival into a world – class event, and I thank them for their continued and wholehearted support.

I am indebted to our President for his considerable support and to our very generous sponsors, donors and patrons without whom the Festival simply could not exist.

Festival Director

To the Festival Chairman- Bruce Taylor; Treasurer – Richard Robinson and the Festival Board, I extend my grateful thanks for your most excellent support over the past two years. Special thanks also go to Vice-Chairman John Larke and Vice–President David Peters, both ably supported

by Terry Coplin who have been such a wonderful guiding hand to me as the ‘New Boy’! They have all worked tirelessly and all as Volunteers!

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A key difference from many other festivals is the role local choirs play. Not only do they sing in concerts but they host them, organise social time afterwards, provide volunteers to staff events and get actively involved in Festival promotion. Without their considerable involvement, the Festival would be a shadow of what it is.

We are fortunate to attract the support of an excellent group of compères too. Widely experienced, they bring a professionalism and local knowledge to “chair” concerts, ensuring their smooth running and glossing over any issues with consummate ease.

Lastly, the costs for undertaking and producing a festival of this scale are immense.

To maintain this wonderful Festival, we are going to need some significant help in the next two years by way of a major financial injection, benefits in kind and, above all, additional personnel. If you feel that you can help us in any way, please drop me an e.mail to rob@cimcf.uk, or call me on (07939) 249021 and I will be happy to meet you to discuss things further.

I wish you all an enjoyable time at ‘The World’s Largest Male Choral Festival’!

International Symposium Sunday 30th April. Hall for Cornwall, Truro.

10.30am -12.30pm ‘Connecting with your Audience and improving your choir’ This Year’s topics are very relevant to the needs of today’s choirs. I am sure that all those able to be present will be able to take something away from the sessions. They are applicable for Music Directors and individual singers alike, so we would really encourage you to come and participate.

We are delighted to have with us the following Speakers:

• Dr. Mary Black – ‘Verbal Imaging in the rehearsal room’. How words are used to describe what a Director wants to effect changes in what is produced.

• Tim Knight – “Taking your choir into the 21st Century” - Recruitment, PR and Audience building.

• Dr. Michael Bonshor – ‘The role of role of informal Team Leaders’ - Performance nerves and how to overcome them and how fellow choristers can help in building confidence within your choir.

The Symposium will also feature trade stands from: Lyn Oakes - Discover a new look! For all your choir wear and uniform needs Alan Simmons Music - Comprehensive catalogue of new and exciting choir repertoire Stage Systems - Unique and multi-flexible staging for shows and concerts of all shapes and sizes.

Entry is FREE to all participating choirs.

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Thursday Opening International Gala Concert Truro Cathedral 7.30pm Compère: Robert T. Elliott Celtic Male Ensemble

Wessex Male Choir

Dana Dana Lajos Bardos Nacht Schubert Under The Boardwalk Artie Resnick & Kenny Young Arr Mark Brymer The Prayer Foster/Sager/Testa/Renis arr.

Mark Hayes Mansions Of The Lord Randall Wallace/ Nick Glennie Smith

Do You Hear the People Sing Surely the Presence of the Lord My Lord What a Morning Sway

Boublil and Shoenberg Laney Wolfe. arr. R. T Elliott Spiritual arr: R Lee Gilliam Arr. Steve Jones

Anthem (Chess)

Arr. Haydn James

Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir

Vocal Six (Sweden)

Llanfair

Selections from this fantastic acapella Sextet

Bring Him Home What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor The Lord’s Prayer Gwahoddiad

Robert Williams arr.

Mansel Thomas C M Schoenberg arr.

Bryan Evans Traditional Sea Shanty arr.

Alice Parker and Robert Shaw A.H Malotte Lewis Hartsough arr.

John Tudor Davies

INTERVAL

G.V. 1879 Harmonie Bernbach e.v. (Germany) Abendfrieden På fjället i sol Das Huhn und der Karpfen Vive l’amour I want to go to heaven

THURSDAY 27 APRIL

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Franz Schubert Wilhelm Peterson-Berger Willy von Moellendorf Arr. Robert Shaw / Alice Parker Arr. Winfried Siegler-Legel

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Regional Gala Concerts Penzance Chapel Street Methodist Church, 7.30pm Compère: Rev Julyan Drew Marazion Apollo Male Choir Let There Be Light

F.Giardini, John Marrott arr.

Goff Richards Leonard Cohen arr. Jonathan Wikeley Arr. Noble Cain Lennon/McCartney arr.

Alan Simmons Giacomo Puccini arr. Alan Simons

Hallelujah Deep River Beatles For Choirs Nessun Dorma

Melbourne Welsh Male Choir (Australia) Man of La Mancha

M. Leigh, arr.

Alwyn Humphreys Lloyd Webber, arr.

Alwyn Humphreys Eric Bogle, arr. Leon Paix Traditional, arr. Derek Jones John Ceiriog Hughes, arr. Harry Evans

Memory Shelter Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit Ar Hyd Y Nos

INTERVAL

Grass Valley Male Voice Choir (USA)

THURSDAY 27 APRIL

Over the Rainbow I Got Plenty o’Nuttin’ Summertime Jersey Boys

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Arlen, Harsburg/arr. Hayes Gershwin/ arr. Wagner Gershwin/arr. Hayes Crewe, Gaudio/arr. Lojeski

Mousehole Male Voice Choir Sound Celebration Tom Gentry Riversong Roger Emerson Lean On Me (with We Shall Overcome)

Bill Withers / Traditional arr. Mark Hayes Battle Of Jericho Spiritual arr. Mark Hayes Sing Your Way Home Joseph M Martin Sponsor:

Supported by Penzance Town Council

Saltash Methodist Church 7.30pm Compère: Phil Taylor

Rame Peninsula Male Voice Choir

Arr. Ed Lojeski Arr. Denis R. Cocks Arr. Alwyn Humphreys Arr. Wm. Henry Smith

Rame Peninsula Male Voice Choir Deus Salutis This Little Light of Mine Bring Him Home Who Are the Brave

Mansel Thoms H. Dixon Loes John Leavitt Joseph Marti

St. Petersburg Boys’ Choir (Russia) Praise the Lord`s name Dobry Christov Skylark Mikhail Glinka Pie Jesu Andrew L. Webber Jericho Spiritual

My Heart Will Go On Nessun Dorma Bohemian Rhapsody Minnadhu Breaks

James Horner Puccini Arr. Alan Simmons Arr. Alan Simmons Pete Staniforth

Burraton Male Voice Choir One Voice A perfect Day Sunset Poem Rachie

Arr. Paul Fry Arr. Paul Fry Dylan Thomas Troyte’s Chant arr. Alwyn Humphreys

St. Petersburg Boys’ Choir (Russia) Ave Maria Hebrew slaves` chorus (Nabucco) Oh, fortuna!

Hallelujah

Franz Schubert Guiseppe Verdi Carl Orff George F.Handel

Supported by Saltash Town Council

Daytime Singing St Michaels’ Mount St. Petersburg Boys Choir (Russia) By kind permission of Lord and Lady St Levan A number of visiting choirs will also be participating in local workshops in schools in the North, East and South West of the county!

THURSDAY 27 APRIL

Burraton Male Voice Choir Do You Hear the People Sing Steal Away The Rose Ride the Chariot

INTERVAL

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Friday Lunchtime Concert Truro Cathedral, 1.00pm Compère: John Larke Rossendale Male Voice Choir Joshua Lullaby The Seal Lullaby Sing Your Way Home Baba Yetu

Trad. Arr. by Robert Sells Billy Joel. Arr. by Kirby Shaw Eric Whitacre Joseph Martin Christopher Tin

Weybridge Male Voice Choir Only Remembered

Sinner Man The Lord’s Prayer What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?

The Rose

Cwm Rhondda

Horatius Bonar, Ira Sankey arr. J Kilhams Traditional arr. Kirby Shaw Albert Hay Malottte arr.

Carl Deis English Sea Shanty arr. A Parker and Shaw Amanda McBroom arr. Chris Best John Hughes arr. Arwel Hughes

Melbourne Welsh Male Choir (Australia) You Raise Me Up Prayer Benedictus He Ain’t Heavy

FRIDAY 28 APRIL

Tyddi A Roddaist

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Graham/Lovland, arr.

Roger Emerson Richard Wagner, arr.

George Mead Robert Arwyn Scott/Althouse, arr.

Doug Heywood Rowland & Arwell Hughes

Education Outreach Programme A number of visiting choirs will also be participating in local workshops in schools in the North, East and South West of the county.

Regional Gala Concerts Falmouth Methodist Church 7.30pm

Bodmin St. Petroc’s Church 7.30pm

Compère: Jenny Lockwood

Compère: Colin Grigg

Nankersey Male Choir

Pelynt Male Voice Choir

Speed your journey Nice’n’Easy The Wonder of You Where Shall I Be?

Verdi arr Sydney Northcote a Perry Como Medley arr.

Alan Simmons Baker Knight arr. Alwyn Humphreys Arr by Bryan Davies

True Love Roman War Song Little Lisa Take me home

Tenby Male Choir Deus Salutis [Llef] - sung in Welsh Working Man Let It Be Me Bring Him Home Rhythm Of Life

Arr. Mansel Thomas Arr. Hadyn James Arr. Hadyn James Arr. Ian Williams Arr. Richard Barnes

Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir

INTERVAL

Rhythmn of Life There is nothing like a Dame Shenendoah Alexanders Ragtime Band Antiphon

Eight in a Bar

Westerton Male Voice Choir

She moved through the fair Both sides now When I hear her I have wings La Meurte Del Angel Homeward Bound Come fly with me

Arr. Timothy Takach Joni Mitchell are Coates Mark Templeton Piazolla arr. Robert Sund Marta Keen arr. Jay Althouse Can & Van Heusen arr. Mac Huff

Leos Janacek edited by Antonin Tucapsky Richard Wagner arr.

Percy Fletcher American Miners song arr.

Kenneth Pelmear Rod Edwards and Roger Hand

Cy Coleman Rogers and Hammerstein American Trad’ Denys Hood Vaughan Williams

Fanfare!

He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother

Martin Shaw Russell & Scott arr. John Coates Jnr Silver Michael Brawley Highland Cathedral Roever & Korb Always Look On the Bright Side of Life Eric Idle arr. Mac Huff INTERVAL

Grass Valley Male Voice Choir (USA) Imerys Mid Cornwall Male Voice Choir

Sponsor:

Stroope Crouch/arr. Schroder Simon/Hayes Arr. Gilpin

Falmouth

Supported by: Falmouth Town Council and Falmouth BID

African Trilogy My Lord what a mornin’ Gwahoddiad Run The Lion sleeps tonight

Arr. Gwyn Arch Arr. L. Gilliam Arr. John Tudor Davies Arr. Matt Douglas Arr. Roger Emerson

Manifestum (Finland) Trösterin Musik De Profundis Sjöfararen vid Milan Oi Kallis Suomenmaa Finlandia Sponsor:

Anton Bruckner Leevi Madetoja Selim Palmgren Heikki Klemetti Jean Sibelius

FRIDAY 28 APRIL

Inscription of Hope Soon and Very Soon Sound of Silence You Are So Beautiful

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FRIDAY 28 APRIL

Newquay St Michael’s Church 7.30pm

St. Neot St. Neot Parish Church 7.30pm

Compère: Andrew Lancaster

Compère: Adrian Wilton

Wessex Male Choir

Loveny Male Voice Choir

Deus Salutis (Llef) The Water is wide Let it Be Me

The Song of Cornwall Under the Boardwalk Kentucky Babe Sweet Caroline

Caernarfon Male Voice Choir Prysgol Anthem from Chess

The Creation William Owen arr. Eric Jones Benny Andersson arr.

Haydn James) Karl Jenkins Robat Arwyn Rhys Jones arr.

Aled Lloyd Davies)

Ysbryd Y Mynyddoedd Anfonaf Angel O Gymru

Epsom Male Voice Choir Lullabye Finlandia Vois Sur Ton Chemin

INTERVAL G.V. Harmonie 1879 Bernbach e.V (Germany) The Song of the Blacksmith And death shall have no dominion Wein und Liebe Lux aurumque I want to go to heaven

Gustav Holst Vytautas Miskinis Franz Schubert Eric Whitactre Arr. Winfried Siegler-Legel

When the Saints Bring Him Home

Alexander’s Ragtime Band Tibyah Payon

African Prayer

Love’s Philosophy With Cat Like Tread To Life

Trad arr. Denys Hood Claude M Schonberg arr.

John Leavitt Irving Berlin arr. Denys Hood Slav Orthodox Liturgy arr.

Dmytro Bortniansky Enoch Sontonga arr.

Eric Jones

Supported by: Newquay Town Council and Newquay BID

Billy Joel arranged by Kirby Shaw Jean Sibelius arr. by Neil MacKay Bruno Coulais arr.

by Ian Assersohn Ian Assersohn Gilbert & Sullivan arr.

Assersohn Jerry Bock arr. Assersohn

INTERVAL Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir Llanfair

Newquay Male Choir

Michael Matthews arr.

Harold Miller Artie Resnick, Kenny Young arr. SPEBSQSA Inc Richard H. Buck arr.

Nick Hart Neil Diamond arr.

Mike Jones Willy Richter

Bring Him Home Morte Christe Spaseniye Sodelal The Lord’s Prayer Gwahoddiad

Robert Williams arr.

Mansel Thomas C M Schoenberg arr.

Bryan Evans Emrys Jones Pavel Chesnokov A.H Malotte Lewis Hartsough arr.

John Tudor Davies

Vocal Six (Sweden) Selections from Sweden’s Top Acapella Group

FRIDAY 28 APRIL

Mansel Thomas Miles Ramsay.

Arr. Haydn James/ David Last My Lord What a Morning Spiritual arr. R Lee Gilliam What Would I do without my music Arr. Alwyn Humphries

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Saturday Daytime Singing

Lunchtime Concert Truro Cathedral, 1.00pm Compère: Andrew Lancaster Cor Meibion De Cymru

Land’s End 11.30 Epsom Male Voice Choir 12.15 Bromley Boy Singers

From The Pearl Fishers by Georges Bizet Glyn Rhosyn Music by Lynn Thomas O Gymru Music by Rhys Jones arr. by Hadyn James Fields of Athenry Words and music by Pete St. John arr. by J.A.. Davies Y Tangnefeddwyr (The Peacemakers) Waldo Williams / Eric Jones

Coordinator: Brett Farmer

Hampshire Police Male Voice Choir

Coordinator: Fred Bidgood

Divine Brahama

The Lord is My Light and Sanctus (incorporated) Bridge Over Troubled Water The Creation Deus Salutis

F. Rapley and Schubert P.Simon arr. A Simmons W. Richter G.Jones arr. T Mansel

Grass Valley Male Voice Choir (USA) Inscription of Hope Pader Agan Arluth (Cornish Lord’s Prayer) Sound of Silence Jersey Boys

Stroop Milne Simon/Hayes Crewe, Gaudio/Lojeski

SATURDAY 29 APRIL

Trebah Garden 12.15 Taunton Deane Male Voice Choir 1.15 Wyndham Singers 2.00 Tenby Male Choir 3.15 Warwickshire County Choristers

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International Competitions – Hall for Cornwall, Truro 9.30am and 3.00pm Trophies and Prizes Overall Winners Festival Champion Choir

International Festival Trophy

Best UK Choir

Peter Gould Trophy - donated by Gould Electronics

Best Cornish Choir

P M Shield - presented by P M Sound

Best Conductor The Ellen Winser Trophy 40 Voices and Under Category

First Prize:

£1000

Second Prize:

£400

Third Prize:

£200

Trophies Best UK Choir

Best Cornish Choir - St Stythians Cup

Certificate

Best Single Piece of Music

41 Voices and Over Category

First Prize:

£1000

Second Prize: £400

Third Prize:

£200

Trophies Best UK Choir

Best Cornish Choir - donated by Pendennis Shipyard

Certificate

Best Single Piece of Music

40 Voices and Under Category Adjudicators: Hans Lundgren (Chair), Trevor Hughes, Christopher Gray. Compère: Daphne Skinnard Audience members will only be allowed entry to the auditorium at the start of each session, or between each choir performance.

9.30 Tenby Male Choir Musical Director: Ian Williams Accompanist: Jill Williams

10.00 Bristol Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Jo Scullin Accompanist: Elaine Smith

Y Tangnefeddwyr Si Hei L Wli ‘Mabi

An African Trilogy ( 3 African Songs)

Amazing Grace

Eric Jones Trad Welsh Folk Song Arranged Emyr James Adapted and Arranged

by Ian Williams)

SATURDAY 29 APRIL

9.45 Wyndham Singers Musical Director: Charles West

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Bully in The Alley Weeping (a cappella)

The Sound of Silence

(there’s a) Fire Burning in my Eyes

Traditional arr. Charles West Dan Heymann arr. Alexander L’Estrange & Charles West Paul Simon arr. Charles West Alan Steble arr. Charles West

American Melody, Words by John Newton, Arranged Ed Lojeski

What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor English Sea Shanty, Arranged

by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw Some Enchanted Evening Rodgers & Hammerstein

Arr. by William Stickles When the Saints Go Marching In Trad arr. by Denys Hood 10.15 Phoenix Male Choir Musical Director: John Mills Men of Harlech

Trad. arr. Mansel Thomas

Calico Pie Calon Lân Swansea Bay

John Mills John Hughes arr. Sian Pearce John Mills

10.30 Manifestum Musical Director: Jonas Rannila Trösterin Musik (a capella) Das grosse Lalulaa Saltarelle Finlandia (hymn)

Anton Bruckner Erik Bergman Camille Saint-Saëns Jean Sibelius

10.45 Rossendale Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Matthew Thomas Accompanist: Michael Farnworth

12.10 South Wales Gay Men’s Chorus Musical Director: Andy Bulleyment Accompanist: Christopher Fossey & Vicky Guise

What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor

The Sweetest Kick In The Heart Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Sing Your Way Home

Baba Yetu (a Swahili adaptation of the Lord’s Prayer)

English Sea Shanty Arr. By Alice Parker & Robert Shaw Words Anonymous Music by Joseph M. Martin Music by Christopher Tin Adapted by Derek Machan

11.00 Wadebridge Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Paul Mitchell Accompanist: Gill Gowan & Grahame Lee Laska Opravida Seal Lullaby

Ave Maris Stella Cornish Hearts

Leos Janacek Arr. Eric Whitacre words Rudyard Kipling Arr .Diane Loomer Gareth Churcher words Bob Willmott

11.15 -11.35

Break

11.35 St. Stythians Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Ken Downing Accompanist: Kathryn Downing Make A Joyful Noise Crossing the Bar I Believe Bobby Shafto

Michael Head Ian Assershon Lon Berry Arr. Edmund Walters

There Is Nothing Like A Dame

S Taberner H Arlen/EY Harburg.

Arr. C Fossey R Rodgers/O Hammerstein / arr. W Stickles

12.25 Tintagel Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Penny Barclay Accompanist: Jennifer May Let there by music The Gypsy Embraceable You Sipritual Jubilee

Frances Williams Arr. Noel Davies Gershwin, arr. Jay Althouse Trad’ spiritual arr. Linda Spevacek

12.40 Warwickshire County Male Voices Musical Director: Benjamin Hamilton Accompanist: Julian Grimshaw Cantate Domino Dravidian Dithyramb And So it Goes J’entends le Moulin

Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni Victor Paranjoti Billy Joel arr. Kirby Shaw (Québecois folk song, arr. Donald Patriquin)

12.55 End of Competition Warwickshire County Male Voices and Warwickshire Choristers will entertain you!

1.55 Adjudication and presentation of Prizes

11.55 Melbourne Welsh Male Choir Musical Director: David Ashton-Smith Accompanist: Simon Walters

When I Fall in Love Pemulwuy

Traditional, arr. Bradley Ellingboe Young/Heyman. Arr. Alwyn Humphreys Paul Jarman

SATURDAY 29 APRIL

How Can I Keep from Singing

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41 Voices and Over Category Adjudicators: Hans Lundgren (Chair), Trevor Hughes, Christopher Gray. Compère: David Peters Audience members will only be allowed entry to the auditorium at the start of each session, or between each choir performance.

3.00 Weybridge Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Jonathan Kilhams Accompanist: Mike Wood

4.40 Cor Meibion Caernarfon Musical Director: Delyth Humphreys Accompanist: Mona Meirion Richards LRAM

Sinner Man The Rose

What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?

Only Remembered

Trad arr. Kirby Shaw Amanda McBroom, arr. Chris Best

O Mae Hi’N Braf (‘O what delight’) Ludwig Van Beethoven Dana-Dana Lajos Bárdos Y Bryniau Melynion (The Yellow Hills) Gareth Glyn

English Sea Shanty, arr. Parker and Shaw Horatius Bonar, Ira Sankey, arr J Kilhams

5.00 Four Lanes Male Choir Musical Director: Tim Hosken Accompanist: Ruth Wetherall

3.20 Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Michael Graham Accompanist: Sandra Jeps “Antiphon” “Shenandoah Alexander’s Ragtime Band

Vaughan Williams Trad, arr. Alwyn Humphries Irving Berlin, arr. Denys Hood

3.40 Cor Meibion Froncysyllte Musical Director: Leigh Mason Accompanist: Jason Ellis The Bandit’s Chorus Bonjour Mon Coeur The Seal Lullaby Tom

Verdi arr: Syndney Northcote Orlando di Lasso Eric Whitaker Brian Hughes

SATURDAY 29 APRIL

4.00 Harmonie Bernbach Musical Director: Matthias Schmidt

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Song of the blacksmith And Death Shall have no Dominion Wein und Liebe Lux aurumque

Gustav Holst Vytautas Miskinis Franz Schubert Eric Whitacre

4.20 - 4.35

Break

Hymn To Apollo Hey, Nonny No Close Thine Eyes Love, Could I Only Tell Thee

5.20 Wessex Male Choir Musical Director: Rhiannon Williams-Hale Accompanist: Christine Williams Yea, Cast Me from Heights of the Mountains O Magnum Mysterium Memory

Throughout the day many of their members will have assisted in marshalling choirs during the competitions.

It’s their time now, to let their musical hair down!

Sir Edward Elgar Morten Lauridsen Andrew Lloyd Webb, arr’ John Leavitt

5.35 Mousehole Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Stephen Lawry Accompanist: Annette Turton Four Strong Winds Sing Your Way Home Battle of Jericho

Ian Tyson, arr. Larry Nickel Joseph M Martin Trad’ arr. Mark Hayes

5.50 End of Competition Truro MVC will entertain the Audience.

6.40 Adjudication and presentation of Prizes

While the adjudicators decide, the audience will be entertained by the City of Truro Male Voice Choir.

Charles Gounod Bryceson Treharne Ieuan Rees Davies J M Capel, arr. Doris Arnold

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SATURDAY 29 APRIL

International Gala Concert Hall for Cornwall, Truro, 8.00pm Compère: Bruce Taylor Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir

Cor Meibion De Cymru

The Creation Spaseniye Sodelal Lisa Lan

Men of Harlech

A Welsh Medley

Willy Richter Pavel Chesnokov Welsh Folk Song arr.

Brian Hughes Arr. Evans, Roberts, Daniel and Richards

St. Stythians Male Voice Choir Singers of the World Unite!

Goff Richards What Would I Do without my Music? Middlebrooks/Belland arr.

Alwyn Humphreys Nirvana Stephen Adams arr.

Bryan Davies Every Time I Feel the Spirit Arr. Alan Simmons

Myfanwy Anthem ( from Chess ) Bui Doi Gwahoddiad

G.V. 1879 Harmonie Bernbach e.v. (Germany) Abendfrieden På fjället i sol Das Huhn und der Karpfen Vive l’amour I want to go to heaven

Manifestum (Finland) Finlandia De Profundis In Taberna Pilgerchor (from Tannhäuser)

SATURDAY 29 APRIL

INTERVAL

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From Fantasia arr.

Mansel Thomas Music by Joseph Parry Composed by Benny Anderson arr. H. James Arr. John Trent Wallace Arr. John Tudor Davies

Franz Schubert Wilhelm Peterson-Berger Willy von Moellendorf Arr. Robert Shaw / Alice Parker Arr. Winfried Siegler-Legel

Vocal Six (Sweden) Jean Sibelius Leevi Madetoja Carl Orff Richard Wagner

Selections from this amazing Acapella from Sweden Sponsor:

Regional Gala Concerts St. Austell, St. John’s Church 7.30pm

Liskeard, Public Hall 7.30pm

Compère: Naomi Kennedy

Compère: Duncan Matthews

Gentlemen Singers (Czech Republic)

Liskerret Male Voice Choir

Missa super dixit Maria (selection) Da Pacem Domine Credo. Agnus Dei Lásko, milá lásko All You Need Is Love

Song of Cornwall

Hans Leo Haßler Arvo Pärt Jan Jirásek Jan Vicar Lennon & McCartney arr. P. Wajsar

Hallelujah Bring Him Home Thank You For The Music

Michael Matthews arr. Harold Miller Leonard Cohen arr. J. Wikeley Schonberg arr. Leavitt Andersson & Ulvaeus arr. Bob Barratt

Mevagissey Male Choir Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir

Every Time I Feel The Spirit Home Lovin Man Only You We Rise Again

Puccini arr. Alan Simmons A&M Bergman/Hamlisch.

Arr. G Willcocks Trad. Arr. D Jones Macaulay, Cook, Greenaway.

Arr. Bowker/Hart V Clarke. Arr. L Maierhofer L Dubinsky. Arr. Smith/ Macmillan

South Wales Gay Men’s Chorus

Somewhere Over The Rainbow O Gymru Precious Anthems

Robat Arwyn John Denver, arr. Simmons D. Coates Arr. Humphreys Rogers & Hamerstein arr. Humhpreys

INTERVAL Westerton Male Voice Choir

INTERVAL

The Sweetest Kick In The Heart There is Nothing Like a Dame

Benedictus Perhaps Love Where Could I go, but to the Lord You’ll never walk Alone

Stephen Taberner Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II Harold Arlen Rhys Jones Christopher Fossey

Fanfare!

Rhythm of Life

Martin Shaw Coleman & Fields arr. Richard Barnes Hallelujah Leonard Cohen arr. Jonathan Wikeley I’ll Aye Ca’ In By Yon Toon Burns arr. Kenneth Finlay One Hamlisch & Kleban Always Look On the Bright Side of Life Eric Idle arr. Mac Huff Gentlemen Singers (Czech Republic)

Melbourne Welsh Male Choir (Australia Stout Hearted Men Ride The Chariot Always On My Mind Man of La Mancha Supported by: St Austell Town Council

Hammerstein/Romberg, arr.

Scotso Traditional arr.

Wm.Henry Smith Whelan/Di Scala, arr. D. Ashton-Smith M. Leigh, arr.

Alwyn Humphreys

Contrapunto Bestiale Alla Mente Il est bel et bon Of All the Birds that I Do Know Vejr (The Owl) The Night Before All You Need Is Love Supported by: Liskeard Town Council

Adriano Banchieri Pierre Passereau John Bartlet Jan Vicar Lennon & McCartney arr. P. Wajsar Lennon & McCartney arr. P. Wajsar

SATURDAY 29 APRIL

Nessun Dorma The Way We were

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Launceston Methodist Church 7.30pm

Paul, St Pol de Leon Church 7.30pm

Compère: Terry Bale

Compère: Matthew Shepherd

Launceston Male Voice Choir

St. Buryan Male Voice Choir

It’s a Grand Night For Singing

With a voice of singing With cat-like tread Every time I feel the spirit Amazing Grace Chattanooga Choo Choo

The Hippopotamus Song Calm is The Sea African Prayer

Rodgers and Hammerstein, arr. Jerry Rubino Flanders and Swann, arr.

William Stickles Guard and Pfeil, arr.

Heinrich Pfeil Enoch Sontonga, arr. by Eric Jones

Taunton Deane Male Voice Choir

Phoenix Male Choir

With a Voice of Singing Martin Shaw Softly as I Leave You (with flute acc) Vita and Sharper. Arr. Alan Simmons Roman War Song Wagner. Arr. Fletcher Tell my Father (with flute acc) Murphy/Wildhorn. Arr. Andrea Ramsey Requiem for a Soldier Michael Kamen. Arr. Nick Thomas Man of La Mancha Leigh and Darion. Arr. Frank

Cwm Rhondda Just Haven’t Met You Yet Sing Myfanwy Don’t Stop me Now

Rossendale Male Voice Choir What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose Ma Bella Marguerita

The Rose

SATURDAY 29 APRIL

Baba Yetu

Arr. Alice Parker & Robert Shaw Trad. arr. by Hugh Roberton A P H Herbert & Vivian Ellis Arr. by Ernest Tomlinson Amanda McBroom. arr.

by A Humphreys Christopher Tin

Peterborough Boys Choir Psallite Shoshone Love Song Piú non si trovano Runaround Sue The Bare Necessities

Traditional arr. Hughes Buble arr. John Mills Barlow & John arr. John Mills Joseph Parry Freddie Mercury (Queen) arr. John Mills

INTERVAL Hampshire Police Male Voice Choir

INTERVAL

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The Lord’s Prayer

Martin Shaw G&S arr. Felton Rapley Trad. arr. Alan Simmons Trad. arr. Jay Althouse Glenn Miller are.

Alan Simmons Albert Hay Malotte arr.

Carl Deis

Michael Praetorius Roger Emerson Mozart Dion Di Mucci and Ernie Marseca arr. Matthew Jones Terry Gilkyson, arr.

John Leavitt

Supported by: Launceston Town Council

What Would I Do Without My Music H.Middlebrooks/B.Belland arr. A Humphreys The Carnival Is Over T.Springfield arr.

D Paul/G Culbertson The White Rose Traditional arr. A Simmons You`ll Never Walk Alone Rodgers/Hammerstein arr. A Humphreys Nella Fantasia E.Morricone arr. D Lawrence St.Petersburg Boys’ Choir (Russia) Lux aurumque Eric Whitacre Holy Mother Pavel Chesnokov Jericho Spiritual Pie Jesu Andrew L.Webber Hallelujah George F.Handel

Porthleven Methodist Chapel 7.30pm Compère: John Trevaskis Kerrier Male Voice Choir Gonna Rise Up Singin’ No Arms Can Ever Hold You Crowan An Rosen Wyn (The White Rose) The Lion Sleeps Tonight Rachie

Music and lyrics by Don Besig Crafer/Nebb arr.

by Alwyn Humphries Yawann Byghann arr. by Roger Pinsent Traditional Cornish piece Weiss, Creatore, Peretti arr. Arch Music- Caradog Roberts, Lyrics- Henry LLoyd

Bromley Boy Singers The Hare and the Tortoise Bob Chilcott (from Aesop’s Fables) The Fox and the Grapes Bob Chilcott (from Aesop’s Fables) The North Wind (from Aesop’s Fables) Bob Chilcott Skye Boat Song Traditional arr.

Michael Neaum The Rose Amanda McBroom arr.

Alwyn Humphreys Windmills of your Mind Michel Legrand INTERVAL Maelstrom Music’s Echo Alleluia Madrigal Runaround Sue Sing your way home Right here waiting Ev’ry time we say goodbye

Greg Gilpin Donald Moore Roger Emerson / Marasca & Mucci Joseph M Martin / Dvorak Kirby Shaw / Richard Marx David King / Cole Porter

Weybridge Male Voice Choir

Anthem Kalinka

C.F Chudleigh Candish English Sea Shanty arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw Traditional arr. Mickey Newbury; adapted Alwyn Humphries B. Anderson, T. Rice arr.

D Heywood Russian Folk Song arr.

A.V.Alexandrov

Supported by: Porthleven Town Council

SATURDAY 29 APRIL

The Song of the Jolly Roger What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?

An American Trilogy

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Sunday Daytime Singing Lost Gardens of Heligan 11.30 South Wales Gay Men’s Choir 12.30 St. Petersburg Boys Choir 1.30 Bristol Male Voice Choir Coordinator: Frank Evans Land’s End 12.15 Weybridge Male Voice Choir Coordinator: Brett Farmer Minack Theatre 11.30 Gesanguerein Harmonie Bernbach 12.45 Bromley Boy Singers Coordinator: Alun Howells National Maritime Museum 11.00 Maelstrom 12.15 Peterborough Boys Choir Coordinators: Carol & Jim Shepperd Eden Project 10.45 Epsom Male Voice Choir 11.15 Wyndham Singers 11.45 Peterborough Boys Choir Coordinator: Andrew Lancaster

SUNDAY 30 APRIL

12.15 Warwickshire Boys County Choristers 12.45 Westerton Male Voice Choir 1.15 Caernarfon Male Voice Choir 1.45 Roeros Sangforening 2.15 Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir 2.45 Maelstrom

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Coordinator: Rob Spowart

Youth International Gala Concert and Competition Hall for Cornwall, Truro, 7.00pm For the John Langdon Cup Adjudicators: Hans Lundgren (Chair) and Trevor Hughes. Compère: Russell Pascoe Audience members will only be allowed entry to the auditorium at the start of each session, or between each choir performance.

Warwickshire County Choristers

Bromley Boy Singers

Hine ma tov (Psalm 133) O Occhi Mia Manza

The Hare & the Tortoise (from Aesop’s Fables) The Goose & the Swan (from Aesop’s Fables) Over the Rainbow

Peterborough Boys Choir Psallite Shoshone Love Song Piú non si trovano The Bare Necessities

Bob Chilcott E.Y.Harburg & Harold Arlen

INTERVAL Warwickshire County Male Voices

Michael Praetorius Roger Emerson Mozart Terry Gilkyson, arr. John Leavitt

Truro School Barbershop Musica Ave Verum Mary Lou

Bob Chilcott

Cantate Domino Dravidian Dithyramb And So it Goes J’entends le Moulin

Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni Victor Paranjoti Billy Joel arr. Kirby Shaw (Québecois folk song, arr.

Donald Patriquin)

Cornwall Boys Choir Brant Adams Mozart Gene Pitney and C Mangiaracina arr. David Wright

The Captain’s Tale The Moon The Beat of a Different Drum There has to be a song (sung together with Cambiata)

St. Petersburg Boys’ Choir (Russia)

Cornwall Cambiata

Lux Aurumque Rosas Pandan Along Piterskaya Street

My love is like a red red rose Haul away Joe! There has to be a song (sung together with CBC)

Eric Whitacre Philippine folk song Russian folk song arr. Vadim Pchelkin

Paul Jarman Andy Beck Sarah Quartel Andrea Ramsey

Russell Pascoe Andy Brooke Andrea Ramsey

Competition Adjudication Sponsor:

SUNDAY 30 APRIL

Firefly Al Shlo Sha D’Varim Trouble!

Allan Naplan Orlando di Lasso arr.

G Jones Andy Beck Allan Naplan Folk song arr.

Sally K. Albrecht

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Regional Gala Concerts Camborne Centenary Chapel 7.30pm

Falmouth, All Saints’ Church 7.30pm

Compère: Ross Ellis

Compère: David Peters

Gentlemen Singers (Czech Republic)

Treverva Male Voice Choir

Contrapunto Bestiale Alla Mente Il est bel et bon Of All the Birds that I Do Know Vejr* (The Owl) The Night Before

Divine Brahma How Soon Men of Cornwall We Rise again

All You Need Is Love

Adriano Banchieri Pierre Passereau John Bartlet Jan Vicar Lennon & McCartney arr. P. Wajsar Lennon & McCartney arr. P. Wajsar)

Holman Climax Male Voice Choir

Caernarfon Male Voice Choir Prysgol Anthem from Chess Bring Him Home

Singers of the World Unite

Sweet Hour of Prayer Comrades Song of Hope Amen

Words by David Dearlove Music by Goff Richards Arr. Roger J Wills Adolphe Adam arr.

Ernest A Dicks Arr. Alan Simmons

INTERVAL

The Sweetest Kick In The Heart There is Nothing Like a Dame Somewhere Over The Rainbow O Gymru Precious Anthems

Stephen Taberner Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II Harold Arlen Rhys Jones Christopher Fossey

SUNDAY 30 APRIL

Bristol Male Voice Choir

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Angels Jimmy and Nancy on The Sea

Hyfrydol (Love Divine) Sponsor:

Ysbryd Y Mynyddoedd Anfonaf Angel O Gymru

William Owen arr. Eric Jones Benny Andersson arr. Haydn James) Claude-Michel Schoenberg arr. John Samuel) Karl Jenkins Robat Arwyn Rhys Jones arr. Aled Lloyd Davies

INTERVAL Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir

South Wales Gay Men’s Chorus

The Sound of Silence Something

Bizet Arranged A Humphreys H Glasson arr. A Simmons Arr. Stephen Smith

Williams & Chambers arr.

David Lawrence Jim Dalton Codroy arr.

Martin Hodson Paul Simon arr. Gwyn Arch George Harrison arr.

Mac Huff RH Pritchard Arr. Alwyn Humphreys

Supported by: Camborne Town Council

Alexander’s Ragtime Band Song of the Jolly Roger Shenendoah Tui Ego NIrvana

Arr. Denys Hood Chudleigh Candish Amreican Traditional Welsh Taditional Arr. Bryan Davies

Gentlemen Singers (Czech Republic) Contrapunto Bestiale Alla Mente Il est bel et bon Of All the Birds that I Do Know Vejr (The Owl) The Night Before All You Need Is Love

Adriano Banchieri Pierre Passereau John Bartlet Jan Vicar Lennon & McCartney arr.

P. Wajsar Lennon & McCartney arr.

P. Wajsar

Sponsors: Supported by: Falmouth Town Council and Falmouth BID

Bude Methodist Church 7.30pm

Hayle, St Elwyn’s Church 7.30pm

Compère: Rev Keith Roberts

Compère: John Pollard

Tintagel Orpheus Male Voice Choir

Praze Hayle Male Voice Choir

Deus Salutis Sing your way home

Stout Hearted Men Some enchanted evening An Evenings Pastoral Go Down Moses Calm is the sea I’m Gonna Walk

Taunton Deane Male Voice Choir

Wadebridge Male Voice What would I do without my music Sailing Ave maris Stella Seven Ages of Song If we only had love

Middlebrooks & Belland arr. Humphreys Gavin Sutherland arr. Alan Simmons Arr. Diane Loomer Alan Simmons Jacques Brel arr.

Alwyn Humphreys

Farmer’s Boy Bridge Over Troubled Water Drunken Sailor Bring Him Home Rhythm of Life If We Only Have Love

INTERVAL

INTERVAL

Hampshire Police Male Voice Choir

Wessex Male Choir

Anvil Chorus Bridge Over Troubled Water Young And Sentimental

The Lord’s Prayer Surely the Presence of the Lord My Lord What a Morning Sway Anthem (Chess)

Let The Lower Lights Be Burning Band Of Brothers

Verdi P.Simon arr. A Simmons M.Gordon/J.Myrow/ L.Brown/B.Green/B.Homer arr. G Arch P.Bliss arr. A Parker M.Kamen arr. D Lawrence

Melbourne Welsh Male Choir (Australia) Prayer (Lohengrin) Memory Shelter Ev’ry Time I Feel The Spirit When The Saints Supported by: Bude Town Council

Romberg and Hammerstein Rogers and Hammerstein Ayrton and Shaw Hugh S Robertson Pfiel and Giuard Trad arr Alwyn Humphreys

Richard Wagner, arr. George Mead Lloyd Webber, arr.

Alwyn Humphreys Eric Bogle, arr. Leon Paix Traditional, arr. Derek Jones John Rutter, arr.

Paul Bateman

Trad. Vaughan Williams Simon & Garfunkel.

Arr. Simmons Trad arr. Parker and Shaw Schonberg. Arr. John Leavitt Fields/ Coleman.

Arr. Richard Barnes Jacques Brel. Arr. Alwyn Humphreys

A. Mallotte. Arr. Carl Deis Laney Wolfe. Arr. R. T Elliott Spiritual arr. R Lee Gilliam Arr. Steve Jones Arr. Haydn James

Roeros Sangforening (Norway) I Will Praise Thee, O Lord Naar fjordene blaaner This Old Man You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling Unchained Melody Aftensang

Psalm 9. Knut Nysted John Paulsen (t), Alfred Paulsen (m) Trad arr. James Fulleylove Mann, Weil, Spector.

Arr. Kirby Shaw Alex North arr. Gwyn Arch British melody arr.

Per Oddvar Hildre

Supported by: Hayle Town Council

SUNDAY 30 APRIL

Spiritual Jubilee O Danny Boy It’s a grand night for singing

David Charles Joseph M Martin quoting “Goin’ Home” by A Dvorak Linda Spevacek Arr. Kevin A Membley Oscar Hammerstein/Richard Rodgers arr. Jerry Rubino

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St. Just Methodist Church 7.30pm

Redruth, St Andrew’s Church 7.30pm

Compère: Daphne Skinnard

Compère: Richard Robinson

Vocal Six (Sweden)

Four Lanes Male Choir

Selections from this fantastic acapella group Marazion Apollo Male Voice Choir

The Song of Cornwall Oliver Medley Close Thine Eyes

Let There Be Light

Climb Ev’ry Mountain

Hallelujah Deep River Beatles For Choirs Nessun Dorma

F.Giardini, John Marrott arr. Goff Richards Leonard Cohen arr. Jonathan Wikeley Arr. Noble Cain Lennon/McCartney arr.

Alan Simmons Giacomo Puccini arr.

Alan Simons

Phoenix Male Choir Cwm Rhondda Just Haven’t Met You Yet Sing Myfanwy Don’t Stop me Now

INTERVAL

Anfonaf Angel

Mae D’Eisiau Di Bob Awr

Music by Sigmund Romberg Music by Frank Wildhorn Arr. by Andria Ramsey Music by Alex North arr. by William Stickles Music: Robat Arwyn Words: Hywel Gwynfryn Arr. by John Tudor Davies

Rossendale Male Voice Choir

SUNDAY 30 APRIL

What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor Lullaby There Is Nothing Like A Dame

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Anthem Gwahoddiad

Traditional arr. Hughes Buble arr. John Mills Barlow & John arr. John Mills Joseph Parry Freddie Mercury (Queen) arr. John Mills

INTERVAL

Cor Meibion De Cymru Stout Hearted Men Tell My Father

Unchained Melody

Matthews/Knight Arr Miller Bart/Arr. Simmons Ieuan Rees Davies Words King Charles 1st Rodgers & Hammerstein Arr. Smith

Westerton Male Choir Fanfare!

Stout Hearted Men

Martin Shaw Romberg & Hammerstein arr. Walter Scotson He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother Russell & Scott arr.

John Coates Jnr Silver Michael Brawley Highland Cathedral Roever & Korb Always Look On the Bright Side of Life Eric Idle arr. Mac Huff Vocal Six (Sweden)

Arr. By Alice Parker & Robert Shaw Billy Joel. Arr. By Kirby Shaw Oscar Hammerstein & Richard Rogers John Trent Wallace L. Hartsough. Arr. By J. Davies

Supported by: St Just in Penwith Town Council

Selections from this fantastic acapella group Sponsor: Supported by: Redruth Town Council

Helston Methodist Church 7.30pm Compère: Rev Daniel Reed St.Stythians Male Voice Choir Make a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord (Psalm 100) Crossing the Bar Nirvana Bring Him Home (from Les Miserables) Bobby Shafto

Michael Head Ian Assersohn Stephen Adams Arr. Bryan Davies Claude-Michel Schonberg Arr. John Leavitt Arr. Edmund Walters

Epsom Male Voice Choir Finlandia Vois Sur Ton Chemin Love’s Philosophy With Cat Like Tread To Life

Jean Sibelius arr.

by Neil MacKay Bruno Coulais arr.

by Ian Assersohn Ian Assersohn Gilbert & Sullivan arr. Assersohn Jerry Bock arr. Assersohn

INTERVAL

Can You Stand Upon One Leg? (A song for Children & the Young at Heart) Weeping (there’s a) Fire Burning in my Eyes The Sound of Silence Tibie Paiom

The Divine Comedy; arr. Charles West Dan Heymann; arr. Charles West Charles West, from a poem

by Alan Steble Paul Simon; arr. Charles West Dmytro Bortnianski; arr. Charles West

Grass Valley Male Voice Choir (USA) Hallelujah I Got Plenty o’Nuttin’ Summertime Jersey Boys

Cohen/arr. Emerson Gershwin/ arr. Wagner Gershwin/arr. Hayes Crewe, Gaudio/arr. Lojeski

SUNDAY 30 APRIL

Wyndham Singers

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Monday Daytime Singing Pendennis Castle 12.00 Grass Valley Male Voice Choir 1.00 Maelstrom 2.00 Treverva Male Voice Choir 2.45 Buccas Four Coordinator: David Peters Tate St Ives 12.00 Wyndham Singers 12.30 South Wales Gay Men’s Choir Coordinator: Tony Farrell Eden Project 10.00 Hampshire Police Male Voice Choir 10.30 St Petersburg Boys’ Choir 11.00 Melbourne Welsh Male Choir 11.30 Weybridge Male Voice Choir

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Coordinator: Adrian Wilton 12.00 12.30 1.00 1.30

Taunton Deane Male Voice Choir Wessex Male Voice Choir Rossendale Male Voice Choir Phoenix Choir

MONDAY 1 MAY

Coordinator: Des Honey

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Lunchtime Concert Truro Cathedral, 1.00pm Compère: John Larke Bromley Boy Singers

Bristol Male Voice Choir Soon and Very Soon And So it Goes The Lord’s Prayer To Where You Are Can You Feel The Love Tonight

Andre Crouch, arr. Jack Schraeder Billy Joel arr. Kirby Shaw Albert Hay Malotte, arr.

Carl Deis Marx & Thompson arr.

Alwyn Humphreys Rice & John arr. Jon Trent Wallace

The Hare & the Tortoise (from Aesop’s Fables) The Goose & the Swan (from Aesop’s Fables) Monkey & Turtle (from Island Songs) Morning Tide (from Island Songs) Ave Maria Over the Rainbow

Bob Chilcott Bob Chilcott Stephen Leek Stephen Leek Guilio Caccini arr.

Patrick Liebergen E.Y.Harburg & Harold Arlen arr. Russ Robinson

Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir Nirvana Shenendoah You’ll never walk alone Antiphon Divine Brahma

Vaughan Williams Bizet

Finalé International Gala Concert Hall for Cornwall, Truro, 7.30pm Compère: David Hughes

MONDAY 1 MAY

Wessex Male Choir

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What Would I do without my music Let it be Me Chattanooga Choo Choo (Kings of swing) Memory (Cats)

Melbourne Welsh Male Choir (Australia) Arr. Dr Alwyn Humphries Arr. Dr Haydn James Arr. Alan Simmons Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Arr. John Leavitt

How Can I Keep from Singing Shelter When I Fall in Love Prayer (Lohengrin)

Traditional, arr. Bradley Ellingboe Eric Bogle, arr. Leon Paix Young/Heyman, arr.

Alwyn Humphreys Richard Wagner, arr.

George Mead Paul Jarman

Gentlemen Singers (Czech Republic)

Pemulwuy

Ubi Caritas Quatre petites prières de Saint François d’Assise Vejr (The Owl) The Night Before All You Need Is Love

Ola Gjeilo

INTERVAL

Francis Poulenc Jan Vicar Lennon & McCartney Lennon & McCartney

St Petersburg Boys’ Choir (Russia) Praise the Lord`s name Joke Along Piterskaya street Lux aurumque The lion sleeps tonight

Dobry Christov Valery Gavrilin Russian folk song Eric Whitacre Solomon Linda

Trelawny Male Choir The White Rose A Roman War Song Bring Him Home

Arr. Edward Goldsmith/Neil Plummer Percy E Fletcher Boubil & Schonberg arr.

John Leavitt A H Malotte arr. Carl Deis J Marriott & F Giardini arr.

Goff Richards

Trelawny The Lord’s Prayer Let There Be Light

Sponsor:

Trelawny Male Choir & Audience Lyrics by Robert Stephen Hawker, 1804 - 1875

A good sword and a trusty hand!

And shall Trelawny live?

A merry heart and true!

And shall Trelawny die?

King James’s men shall understand

Here’s twenty thousand Cornish men

What Cornish lads can do!

Will know the reason why!

And have they fixed the where and when?

And shall Trelawny die?

And when we come to London Wall,

Here’s twenty thousand Cornish men

A pleasant sight to view,

Will know the reason why!

Come forth! come forth! ye cowards all: Here’s men as good as you.

And shall Trelawny live?

‘Trelawny he’s in keep and hold;

And shall Trelawny die?

Trelawny he may die:

Here’s twenty thousand Cornish men

Here’s twenty thousand Cornish bold

Will know the reason why!

Will know the reason why

Out spake their Captain brave and bold:

And shall Trelawny live?

A merry wight was he:

And shall Trelawny die?

Though London Tower were Michael’s hold,

Here’s twenty thousand Cornish men

We’ll set Trelawny free!

Will know the reason why!

‘We’ll cross the Tamar, land to land: The Severn is no stay: And who shall bid us nay?

MONDAY 1 MAY

With “one and all,” and hand in hand;

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Jury

International Jury

Hans Lundgren

Trevor Hughes

Christopher Gray

Hans Lundgren has conducted male choirs since the age of 16 and is one of Sweden’s most experienced male choir conductors.

For 35 years he was Music Director of the Linköping University Male Voice Choir and as Director Musices (Head of Music) at Linköping University.

Trevor Hughes is a Graduate of the Royal College of Music, winning the Colles Prize, and an Associate of the Royal College of Organists, winning the Doris Wookey Prize.

Christopher Gray was appointed Director of Music at Truro Cathedral in 2008, having been Assistant Director of Music since 2000. He is responsible for the Cathedral Choir and its six sung services each week as well as its regular concerts, live broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, webcasts and foreign tours. His recordings with the choir have included single-composer CDs of music by Benjamin Britten and Philip Stopford, with a disc of music by Gabriel Jackson being recorded this month.

At the Cornwall International Male Choral Festival in 2007 his choir won the first prize and the Festival International Trophy and Hans Lundgren was conferred the Conductor’s award.

With his choirs, including the Linköping University Chamber Choir and the Linköping University Women’s Choir) he has made some 30 tours abroad across Europe, the USA, Jordan and South Africa.

Hans Lundgren has been engaged as an adjudicator at choral competitions in Sweden, Finland and Estonia.

INTERNATIONAL JURY

He is delighted to be back in Cornwall once again and honoured to be chairing the Adjudication Panel for this year’s Festvial.

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As an organist, he has performed on most of the finest organs in Britain’s top cathedrals and halls. He has also performed on major organs in America, France, Austria and Germany. His long experience in the field of church music continues in his present position as Director of Music at Holy Saviour Church in Hitchin. For some 10 years or so, until 2001, Trevor was Musical Director of the Stevenage Choral Society, taking the choirs on tours to Austria, Germany, and the USA, and also formed the Hemel Hempstead School Senior Girls’ Choir in October 1997, which, in its first year, gave a foyer concert at the Royal Festival Hall and sang at the Royal Albert Hall. He was also formerly Musical Director of the North London female voice choir “Jubilate!”, for whom he has written a number of jazz-inspired arrangements.

He has accompanied recitals in the Purcell Room, the Wigmore Hall, and on BBC Radio 3, as well as in many music clubs over the country and for over ten years he contributed regularly to BBC Schools Radio music programmes, as keyboards player, musical director, and arranger. He has also made a number of educational recordings for Lindsay Music, and Faber Music.

Equally at home in a wide range of musical styles, Trevor has conducted many musicals in the theatre and he has also played keyboards in a number of West End shows.

His freelance work as both accompanist and choral conductor has taken him on numerous projects to the USA, as well as to Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland and Holland.

Trevor has adjudicated at music festivals, both at home (including venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican and abroad (including Hong Kong). During the last few years he has also adjudicated choral festivals at the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican Centre, in aid of Barnardos, for which organisation he has also performed in many fund-raising concerts.

In addition to his duties at the Cathedral, he directs Three Spires Singers and Orchestra and Cornwall Youth Choir, having previously conducted St Mary’s Singers and Orchestra, Cornwall Junior Choir, Richard Lander School’s Wilbye Choir and Truro School’s Senior Choir.

Christopher is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and read music at Pembroke College Cambridge, as an organ scholar. He subsequently studied with Margaret Philips at the Royal College of Music where he was a post-graduate student and a prize-winner.

Robert T. Elliott Festival Director Rob grew up in South Wales as part of a musical family. He conducted the Massed Male Choirs at the Welsh National Eisteddfod at the age of only 21 and the English National Symphony Orchestra at the Wiltshire Music Festival in 1999.

He has performed in a host of venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Cardiff Castle, the NEC and Wembley; as well as the Cathedrals of Llandaff, Westminster, and Southwark. Rob has also conducted the community singing and the national anthems on several occasions at Twickenham and his own private Male Chorus performed at all the games there for the Rugby World Cup. Rob has adjudicated at many festivals and competitions throughout Britain and Europe, including The National Choral

Festival in Ireland, Isle of Man Festival of Choirs, Cornwall International Male Choral Competition, Barnardos National School Choir Competition at the Barbican and Royal Festival Hall in London, Manchester Amateur Choral Competition at the Royal Northern College of Music, Bangor International Choral Festival, Northern Ireland and The North Wales Choral Festival.

Rob founded the Wessex Male Choir in 2001. Since that time, he developed the choir to win 20 trophies and to become the country’s top performing male choir cementing its success by also becoming International Male Choir Champions at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in 2011 against some of the stiffest competition seen there for many years.

Rob retired as its MD in December 2013.

He runs a very successful music teaching practice in Royal Wootton Bassett and is currently also involved in delivering choir workshops, helping conductors prepare choirs for competition and advising choirs with planning for the future.

Rob took over as Festival Director in July 2015 and is honoured to have been appointed to the role for this year’s Festival.

Fields of Gold The catchy US No 1 hit by Michael Bublé

Sting’s Classic Ballad

Simple and Effective Love Song by Yazoo

Bui Doi Michael Bublé’s vibrant, swing version

Stirring anthem from Miss Saigon

INTERNATIONAL JURY

Ultimate feel good song by Journey

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International International Choirs

Grass Valley Male Voice Choir Gentlemen Singers (Czech Republic) Artistic Leader: Richard Uhlíř

Grass Valley Male Voice Choir (USA) Musical Director: Eleanor Kenitzer Pianist: Cody Killian

It is a huge privilege and joy to be able to welcome this highly acclaimed, professional ensemble to the Festival for the first time.

Established in 2003, the nine members sing a wide range of styles and repertoire a cappella in four parts (countertenor, tenor, baritone and bass). The Gentlemen Singers are a multi-award winning ensemble and have given more than 500 concerts in 19 countries on four continents. They have performed widely on TV and radio and sing commissioned arrangements and compositions in as many as eight parts. They undertake workshops, master classes and school education sessions and have performed with many famous conductors and orchestras.

The Grass Valley Male Voice Choir is the direct descendant of the Cornish miners’ choirs that flourished from the California Gold Rush era well into the twentieth century. Grass Valley, California, was a centre of gold mining where Cornish miners came with their hard-rock mining skills and love of singing. In the 1990s, Eleanor Kenitzer, an experienced choral conductor in the community, worked with a few of the remaining miner choir members to revive the Cornish singing tradition. The mixed Cornish Carol Choir began singing in 1990 and the Male Voice Choir started in 1997. GVMVC is active in the Nevada County musical scene with three concerts a year. In addition, their mission includes supporting local non-profit organisations and promoting the community’s Cornish heritage.

Since Grass Valley and Nevada City established sister-cities in Cornwall, the group has visited Cornwall twice and hosted visiting Cornish choirs, regularly participates in regional and national Cornish reunions and performs at St. Piran’s Day celebrations.

Today’s choir of forty men is still directed by Eleanor Kenitzer, a bard of the Cornish Gorsedd. It offers their audiences a broad repertoire of popular music: from Broadway, Americana and folk music to traditional Cornish songs and Holiday favourites.

Gesangverein Harmonie 1879 Bernbach (Germany) Musical Director: Matthias Schmidt

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Manifestum (Finland) Musical Director: Jonas Rannila Manifestum was founded in 2010. An important reason for starting a new choir was the singers’ wish to perform choral music with a classical ideal of singing. The choir performs gems from the male voice choir repertoire from various epochs and offers its audience interesting programmes – with surprises, yet without forgetting traditions. In addition to well-known compositions the choir performs works that develop the musical level of the choir. A part of this ambition is to regularly perform larger compositions. Manifestum co-operates with other actors in the field. It’s important for the choir to perform music that develops the singers technique. Under its new conductor Jonas Rannila, Manifestum has developed by leaps and bounds. In the 2015-16 term we performed Johannes Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem together with experienced ladies voices; two Christmas concerts and two concerts called ”Romantics and Modernists”. The latter included a first performance of Leif Segerstam’s composition Lokomokokomotiivi, dedicated to Manifestum. In October 2016 Manifestum performed, together with Somnium Ensemble, Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. The performance was greeted by standing ovations and very favourable press. For Christmas 2016 we prepared three performances of Camille Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratorio arranged for male voice choir.

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In 1879 the HARMONIE Bernbach was founded by 13 young men who loved to sing, thus making them one of the tradition-richest choirs in the Rhein-Main area. Since 2005 the choir has been led by their Musical Director Matthias Schmitt who, every week, conveys his passion for singing in this men’s choir to his 65 amateur singers. Matthias Schmitt has received several international awards with his choirs. He was awarded a Special Award at the International Choral Festival 2016 in Cork (Ireland), two Gold Medals at the World Choirs’ Games in Riga (Latvia) in 2014, the win of the Grand Prix at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod Festival in Wales in 2012 and the Conductor’s award at the International Johannes Brahms’ Choir Festival and Competition in Wernigerode (Germany) in 2011. The singers of the HARMONIE try to inspire their audience with choir music from various styles and eras, including Pop and Jazz and also focuses on the 19th century and contemporary compositions. In Germany, the HARMONIE has won several first prizes at national competitions.

The joy of singing and having fun in a tightly-knit group are the cornerstones that define the HARMONIE Bernbach.

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Roeros Sangforening (Norway) Musical Director: Lindsay Winfield- Chislett The small World Heritage site of Roeros, some 175 kilometres south of Norway’s second largest city, Trondheim, lies at an altitude of 628 metres above sea level and boasts some of the lowest winter temperatures in the land, with a record of minus 50’C. An ex copper-mining town, Roeros has a long and colourful history dating back to 1644 and remains a popular tourist destination today. Roeros Sangforening is one of the oldest male voice choirs in Norway, established in 1848, since when the choir has had its ups and downs like any other. In Autumn 2015, the choir’s present MD, british Lindsay Winfield-Chislett, took over the baton and membership is growing. It stands currently at around 25, most of whom will be attending this year’s festival. Repertoire is as varied as possible, including traditional, folk, popular and religious songs, roughly half in Norwegian and half in English. Though Lindsay was here with a different Norwegian MVC in 2009, this is Roeros Sangforening’s first visit to Cornwall.

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Melbourne Welsh Male Choir Saint Petersburg Boys’ Choir (Russia) Musical Director: Vadim Pchelkin St.Petersburg Boys` Choir is a regularly travelling and performing group of about 100 young male singers at the age of 9 till 18 years old. It consists of the best pupils of the Evening Boys` Choir School grounded in 1992 and directed ever since by Vadim Pchelkin, a graduate of St.Petersburg Music Conservatory. St.Petersburg Boys` Choir gives more than 50 concerts and performances annually, mostly in St.Petersburg, but also in other Russian cities and abroad.

The Choir`s extensive repertoire contains secular and church music works of most artistic genres and time epochs. The emphasis in the repertoire is naturally put on the classical Russian music of such great composers as Christov, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Gavrilin, Bortyansky, Slonimsky, as well as Russian folk songs.

The Choir has performed in Germany, France, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Finland.

In 2013 and 2015 St.Petersburg Boys` Choir took part in the CIMCF. In 2015 the Choir won the 2nd Prize in the Youth Choir Competition of the Festival.

Vocal Six (Sweden) Vocal Six was formed in 1988 in Helsingborg, in the far south of Sweden. The six original members began singing together in school, and went on to higher education at the Music College of Malmö and the University of Lund. Since the start they have performed at a large number of stages and festivals in Europe, Asia and the USA, on TV and on the radio. As trained music pedagogues and coaches the have given countless workshops, both in Sweden and abroad. Their discography consists of seven CD’s and one live concert DVD. The singers are: Tommy Wallström (tenor), Staffan Paulson (tenor), Robert Green (tenor), Stefan Högström (tenor), Per Kockum (baritone), Peder Tennek (bass).

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The Melbourne Welsh Male Choir was formed in 1984 under the leadership of Bill Mead from the Morriston Orpheus Choir. It is steeped in the Welsh choral tradition, but is still proudly Australian and has members from diverse nationalities. It has however nurtured its contacts in Wales and has the honour of having as its patron and occasional conductor Alwyn Humphries MBE. Inspired by the example of Morriston Orpheus, the choir has fostered young local singing talent for over 20 years with a ‘Singer of the Year’ Competition, for singers under 35 years, with many of the winners and finalists currently performing on the world stage.

Overseas performances include Cardiff Arms Park in 1992; Atlanta, Georgia, USA in 1994; concert tours of South Africa in 1997; Canada in 2002; Wales and England, including the Royal Albert Hall, in 2008; and most recently at the Salzburg Festival and Vienna in 2014.

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Melbourne Welsh Male Choir (Australia) Musical Director: David Ashton-Smith Accompanist: Simon Walters

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Bristol Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Jo Scullin Accompanist: Elaine Smith

Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Michael Graham Accompanist: Sandra Jeps

Bristol Male Voice Choir have developed a wide-ranging repertoire over almost 50 years. They have performed in Eastern Europe, the Carnegie Hall, New York, to the Eden Project in Cornwall and Bristol’s churches and cathedrals and have toured in Poland, Germany, the USA, Canada, France and Spain.

Under their Musical Director Jo Scullin and accompanist Elaine Smith the choir constantly seek to maintain high musical standards wherever they perform.

BSMVC was founded in 1974 by Pam Jones, now Life President.

Numbers have increased to over 60, with singers from all over East Devon gathering each week in Budleigh Salterton to rehearse an array of songs from a wide range of musical categories.

This year has been both busy and exciting! We have had a succession of successful concerts throughout East Devon while raising about £7500 for charities. We have shared the stage with other choirs, including Barnstaple MVC, Ystrad Mynach MVC, Lympstone Military Wives and on one occasion with the SW Comms Band. We feel privileged to rehearse and perform under the expert guidance of our Musical Director, Michael Graham One of the highlights of the year was our afternoon concert at Exeter Cathedral in August. This was a new venture for us and we were delighted and surprised to sing to a large audience both in the Cathedral and afterwards on the Cathedral green. We also sang at the Cathedral in the week before Christmas as part of ‘The Big Festive Sing’ along with five other choirs and an audience of 1000! We hope and expect that our close contacts with the Cathedral will continue into 2017.

Bromley Boy Singers Musical Director: Travis Baker

Caernarfon Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Delyth Humphreys Accompanist: Mona Meirion Richards LRAM Côr Meibion Caernarfon is one of Wales’ most successful male voice choirs, having won first prize in the National Eisteddfod of Wales a record nine times. The choir was founded in 1967 by a small group of workers at the Ferodo brake lining factory on the outskirts of the town. The factory has long since closed and the members now come from a variety of professional, skilled and manual occupations. Whatever your problem, someone in the choir can fix it! Competing in the 2017 Cornwall International Male Choral festival is one of a series of events celebrating the choir’s 50th anniversary. Côr Meibion Caernarfon has performed in some of the best concert halls in Britain, including the Royal Albert Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall and St David’s Hall Cardiff.

The choir has travelled widely in the UK, Ireland, mainland Europe and North America. Its Patron is the world famous bass baritone, Bryn Terfel. Caernarfon is the county town of Gwynedd, a stronghold of the Welsh language and home to Wales’ most famous castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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The Bromley Boy Singers is an independent choir which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Currently there are some 60 boys aged between 7 and 18 organised into four groups: training and intermediate choirs and the Concert Choir and Vistra (tenors and basses) who are here at this festival. They perform regularly in their own concerts and with adult choirs in Bromley and in London at the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, St John’s Smith Square, St Paul’s Covent Garden and St Clement Dane’s. They have toured in Malta, the Netherlands, Provence and Paris. An annual highlight is their Christmas concert for a capacity audience at St Martin-in-the-Fields. They take part in the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London and have worked recently with Jeremy Jackman and Bob Chilcott. They return this year to Paris to sing at La Madeleine, Notre Dame and Disneyland.

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Cor Meibion De Cymru/South Wales Musical Director: Elaine Robbins Accompanist: Sian Davies

Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Leigh Mason Accompanist: Jason Ellis

Côr Meibion De Cymru - The South Wales Male Choir enjoys an envious reputation for thrilling audiences across the world with the quality of its performance. For over 30 years, with Royal Patronage of HRH The Prince of Wales, choristers from as far west as the Pembrokeshire coast and as far east as the verdant border hills, plus exiles from Avon and Oxfordshire regularly rehearse and produce a sound totally unique, but still very much in the very best Welsh Male Choir tradition. Celebrated conductors such as John Samuel, Haydn James, and D. Eifion Thomas followed founder Alun John on a music making path across the world which with current Music Director Elaine Robins and Accompanist Sian Davies now totals some 20 tours. Performing abroad is a prerequisite of the choir, with an expected European visit in 2018 and a possible major tour to Western Canada in 2020, so opportunities are great for new members to join and become true choral ambassadors.

UK Concert week-ends with wives, partners and the many friends of CMDC regularly feature in the choir programme.

In 1946 the people of Llangollen had started planning a Music Festival as a way of healing worldwide wounds following the end of the Second World War. This festival, the Llangollen Eisteddfod was to be held in 1947. The young men of Froncysyllte returning home from the war wanted to participate in this eisteddfod, hence the formation of the Froncysyllte Male Voice Choir. The choir have been a competitive choir ever since. In 1977 they became the first Welsh Male Voice Choir to win at the Llangollen Eisteddfod and a month later they won at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. They have been successful in competitions throughout the UK and Europe. The most recent a first place at the Derry music Festival in 2013.

In 2006 a wedding engagement resulted in the busiest 6 years in the choir’s history. A wedding guest moved by the choir’s performance set about to secure them a recording deal with Universal. They released 5 albums in 5 years. It was an exhausting, but exciting period which brought amazing concert opportunities.

They are proud to have done their small part in popularising choral singing, but are content to have returned to a normal quieter schedule.

Epsom Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Ian Assersohn Accompanist: Lynda Chang

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Epsom Male Voice Choir began as an evening class in 1983 and has grown in strength year on year. Under the musical directorship of Ian Assersohn the choir has extended its repertoire while retaining the special values of the Male Voice Choir tradition. A major event in the choir’s year is the annual concert at the Epsom Playhouse and again this was a sell-out occasion. In July 2016 Epsom and Ewell towns hosted choirs from France, Germany and Begium for the annual Europe in Harmony Choral Festival during which the choir sang two pieces in French to the delight of the visitors. In November 2016 the choir sang with Leatherhead Choral Society and Farnham Youth Junior Choir at the world premiere of Assersohn’s Dies Irae a cantata in 15 movements. The cantata was commissioned by Epsom Male Voice Choir and Leatherhead Choral Society to commemorate the Battle of the Somme. Reviews of the piece were glowing and the choir were extremely proud of their performance. The choir are delighted to be back at the Festival for the fourth time.

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Peterborough Boys Choir Hampshire Police Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Terri Freeman Accompanist: Nigel Smith In 1940 Portsmouth received intense air-raids and Portsmouth City Police, together with wartime colleagues, spent many hours on stand-by. To raise spirits, officers began to sing together and a choir was formed. Portsmouth City Police Choir was in demand to lift morale and for fund-raising activities in the battered city.

Concerts were given with the Band of the Royal Marines and invitations to broadcast soon followed. After the amalgamation of police forces in April 1967 it became the Hampshire Police Male Voice Choir, now with 60 members, retired officers and members of the community. The Choir’s charitable activities have raised many thousands of pounds for local and national organisations, also promoting Hampshire Constabulary’s Crime Prevention, Community Safety and Trading Standards messages. It has performed in the Royal Albert Hall, the former Cardiff Arms Park, Hyde Park, many Cathedrals, and taken part in joint concerts with male voice choirs around the country. It has travelled abroad on many occasions. In 2013 in Bruges, it had the privilege of singing in the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate and laying a wreath.

In 2014 it had a successful tour in the Rhineland, Germany.

Maelstrom Musical Director: Jeff Borradaile

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Our men only choral group was formed in September 2015 as an offshoot of the award winning Blackburn People’s Choir. Currently there are fourteen men singing in 4-part harmony ( Tenor 1, Tenor 2, Baritone or Bass ). We work on a wide range of songs including pop music and some traditional standards. The ability to read music, although desirable, is definitely not essential as song parts can be accessed from the website. Enthusiasm is at least as important as musical experience. The evenings are under the direction of Jeff Borradaile

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Peterborough Boys Choir Musical Director: William Prideaux Peterborough Boys Choir is part of the musical education charity Peterborough Sings! established in 2011 by Peterborough Male Voice Choir. The charity also encompasses a women’s choir and a youth choir as well as working with hundreds of local schoolchildren through its Arts Council England-funded city wide singing strategy. Over the last year members of Peterborough Boys Choir have featured in the professional productions of Dreamboats and Petticoats and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. In 2016 they performed with the band of the RAF regiment, the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and appeared on BBC One’s Songs of Praise. Several members have successfully auditioned for the National Youth Choir of Great Britain.

Phoenix Choir Musical Director: John Mills The Phoenix Choir is a Welsh Male Voice Choir that has been singing with passion and pride for nine years. Building on its Welsh tradition, The Phoenix Choir takes its influences from all genres and styles. Not only do we sing music traditionally associated with Welsh Male Voice Choirs such as Myfanwy, Gwahoddiad and Men of Harlech, but our repertoire extends to classical pieces such as Nessun Dorma and modern songs by artists such as Robbie Williams, Queen, Michael Bublé and the choir’s president, Bonnie Tyler. The choir has performed at many venues, both locally and afar, including the Houses of Parliament. We have also performed with some of our local celebrities such as Ria Jones and comedian Mike Doyle. At our last annual concert, the choir performed with a local Big Band which made the event go with a swing! The choir’s music director John Mills, is a composer and arranger and has written and arranged the choir’s latest repertoire of modern pieces and songs from popular musicals. Unusually, John is also the choir’s accompanist and conducts the choir from the piano.

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South Wales Gay Mens’ Chorus

Rossendale Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Matthew Thomas Accompanist: Michael Farnworth

South Wales Gay Men’s Chorus Musical Director: Andy Bulleyment Accompanists: Christopher Fossey and Vicky Guise

Originally established 91 years ago in Lancashire, the choir has its roots in the industrial heartland of the beautiful Rossendale Valley.

Formed by the late and immensely talented Fred Tomlinson MBE, and followed by his son Ernest, himself a renowned composer, the choir grew from its humble beginnings, to win the choral festival at Llangollen on 3 occasions, and to establish itself as a real force in the highly competitive male voice choir world. The last 91 years have seen the choir travelling to perform in Holland and Ireland, with a strong twin-town connection in Bocholt, northern Germany.

We have performed in French, German, Latin and Russian, and our current repertoire includes a new piece in Swahili, which is proving a different challenge altogether. For the last 12 months, the choir has greatly benefited from the guidance of its new young MD, Matthew Thomas, whose youth and enthusiasm have helped to re-energise our singers, and inject some pace and vibrancy into performances. This is our first time at the festival, and all our members are really looking forward to hearing fellow choirs and joining in with this wonderful event.

SWGMC was launched in 2008 by its current Musical Director. In the early days the choir worked on finding its voice and audiences keen to hear a new breed of male choir. It found that people wanted to hear them. Often, it seemed that people had forgotten the wonderful sound of male voices in harmony or hadn’t even heard a male choir before. As the choir became better known it found more men who had a passion for singing started coming along to rehearsals. Now the chorus is preparing to celebrate its tenth anniversary and has a busy schedule of performances. The chorus is very proud to be a part of a strong Welsh heritage and proud to be playing an active role in the local community. At the heart of the chorus is a passion for music, for expression, for fun and for connecting with friends in South Wales and across the globe.

Taunton Deane Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Andy Bulleyment Accompanists: Christopher Fossey and Vicky Guise Taunton Deane Male Voice Choir has three main objectives – to preserve the traditions and standards of male voice singing, to maintain public interest in male voice choirs and to assist organisations in raising money for charitable causes.

Over the 70 years of its existence the choir has performed at countless charity concerts locally and nationally. The Choir is affiliated to the National Association of Choirs and has sung with massed choirs at the Royal Albert Hall, The Evening Standard Arena in Manchester, in the World Choir in Cardiff and at V.E. Day celebrations at Hyde Park, Wells and Truro Cathedrals.

The choir has sung at the Royal Albert Hall 5 times in The Festival of Brass &Voices Concert in aid of CANCER RESEARCH UK. Taunton Deane Male Voice Choir’s repertoire is extensive and varied, offering something to suit every kind of musical taste. This is the fourth time we have performed at the Cornwall International Male Voice Choral Festival.

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Westerton Male Voice Choir Tenby Male Choir Musical Director: Ian Williams Accompanist: Jill Williams

Westerton Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Bryan Marshall Accompanist: Gillian Daly

Founded in 1975, Tenby Male Choir has, over the past 40 years, grown from strength to strength not just in chorister numbers but also in its musical reputation under the guiding light of our Music Director Ian Williams [affectionately know as “Wilbur”] and our accompanist Jill Williams [no relation]. Today, as a wellestablished Male Voice Choir in West Wales, at 50 choristers strong, the choir prides itself on the professional reputation that it has grown “From the Heart of Pembrokeshire”.

Formed in 1957 and celebrating its 60th year, Westerton Male Voice Choir is one of the busiest and most popular choirs in the Glasgow area and beyond. WMVC came about because one day in 1957 a sodden bowling green prevented members of the Westerton Bowling Club from playing. Some of the thwarted members gathered round a piano in the pavilion and were so pleased with their efforts that they decided to set up a choir. Renowned for bringing friendship, laughter and a range of rousing music to its audiences, Westerton MVC is a dynamic and versatile choir. All the singers have one thing in common – a love of music, singing and entertaining! At the heart of its singing is a cherished tradition, fund-raising for charity, which is carried out with fun, vigour and enthusiasm. From its humble beginnings in a corrugated-iron Village Hall, WMVC’s stature have grown to ensure it is one of Scotland’s leading male voice choirs. This is Westerton Male Voice Choir’s third visit to the festival and they are delighted to be back as part of their 60th birthday celebrations!

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Warwickshire County Choristers Musical Director: Benjamin Hamilton and Alex Leadbeater Warwickshire County Male Voices Musical Director: Dan Galbreath Accompanist: Julian Grimshaw

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In March 2008, Garry Jones began a project to promote boys’ and young men’s singing in Warwickshire. By 2010 the Warwickshire County Boys’ Choir had grown to nearly 100 singers and the more advanced Warwickshire Choristers was formed from a nucleus of around 50, which has now increased to 80. Both choirs draw singers from schools right across the county and uphold a firm principle of open access, without auditions. The Choristers have competed successfully in Choir of the Year (national finalists in 2010, choir of the day on each occasion since), Music for Youth and, in 2011, The Cornwall International Male Choral Festival. They have also toured successfully to France, Belgium, Germany and Portugal, and produced 3 CDs. The Warwickshire County Male Voices were formed in 2012, building upon the success of the Warwickshire County Boys and Choristers. The aim of the choir was to encourage more young male voice singing. In 2016 they won the prestigious Manchester Amateur choirs competition and in 2013 they were featured in BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Choir’. The group sings in up to six parts, performing a wide variety of musical styles, and membership is open to all boys and young men whose voices are going through the transition. The choir’s repertoire is carefully selected to support and guide them through that process, and a first CD was made in 2015.

In 2016, Garry Jones handed over the directorship of the three choirs to a team of enthusiastic young conductors including Benjamin Hamilton, Daniel Galbreath and Alexander Leadbeater, supported by accompanist Julian Grimshaw. It is this team which is supporting their attendance and competition during the 2017 festival.

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Wessex Male Choir Wessex Male Choir Musical Director: Rhiannon Williams-Hale Accompanist: Christine Williams We were founded in 2001 by Robert T. Elliott and rapidly earned a reputation for entertaining performances and musical excellence, gaining numerous trophies and successes in a relatively short period of time, including winning the Llangollen International Eisteddfod Male Choir Trophy in 2011. At the beginning of 2014, Katrine Reimers took over as musical director and built on the excellent foundations laid by our founder. Katrine left us in July 2016 to take up choral teaching opportunities across Europe and our new Musical Director joined us in September 2015. We are based in Swindon, Wiltshire, and have an active membership of about 50. We enjoy a lively events programme, which has included everything from festivals, overseas tours (most recently to the Republic of Ireland and Northern Italy), regular performances in London, flash-mobs, and outdoor events (we have performed at Twickenham and Wembley stadia in front crowds of more than 70,000), as well as making occasional television appearances on the BBC. We are keen supporters of local and national charities, notably having raised over £60,000 for Parkinson’s UK over the years. We have released three CDs: ‘Men in Black’, ‘Shades of Wessex’, and ‘It’s Christmas!’ with the music available for download online.

Wyndham Singers Musical Director: Charles West The Wyndham Singers is a male singing group of about 25 voices - all of whom are from the village of Kentisbeare and the Culm Valley area in Devon, UK. The Wyndham Singers were formed in the autumn of 2003 with the objective of raising funds for local charities through the enjoyment of singing Christmas carols and music in local pubs. Under the direction of Alan Boxer and latterly Charles West the Singers have proved so popular with their audiences and their membership that we have significantly extended our repertoire and now perform 10 to 15 charity concerts throughout the year. We perform mostly in the Culm Valley / Exeter area though have ventured as far afield as Wales and Cornwall. The Singers have raised about £100,000 for their chosen charities in the last thirteen years.

Weybridge Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Jonathan Kilhams Accompanist: Mike Wood Wyndham Singers

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When a quartet got together in 1921, they could hardly have envisaged that their efforts would be remembered and rewarded with a 70 strong male voice choir still attracting large audiences 95 years later. Much has changed over our 95 years. Our choristers are now drawn from miles around, and many great arrangements of modern songs added to the repertoire. But even more has stayed the same. Our motto ‘Serving the Community’is as valid now as it ever was. We still love getting together with other male voice choirs in festivals, celebrations and simple togetherness. The Welsh hymns are as popular as ever provided they don’t swamp the programme. And there is a great tradition of loyalty; many members have been in the choir for well over 20 years and some for over 40 years. Our much loved Musical Director Christine Best, who died in 2012, spent 45 years with us as accompanist, then as MD. With our young, enthusiastic and innovative MD Jonathan Kilhams and with long-serving Mike Wood as our patient and goodhumoured accompanist, we are poised again for a wonderful few years ahead. Entertainment remains our goal, but it has to be well sung.

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Buccas Four Musical Director: Stephen Lawry Buccas Four, from Newlyn, comprises Charles Parke, Graham Warren, David Williams and Stephen Lawry. They began singing together in August 2001. The quartet sings all around Cornwall and loves to sing as guests of choirs, as well as giving concerts in their own right. They present a wide variety of music, thoroughly enjoy singing together and responding to receptive audiences wherever they go. Buccas Four usually manages a tour away once a year, either into England or further afield. The ensemble’s most recent tour was a very successful visit to Bournemouth with the male voice choir there. They have also enjoyed tours in Ireland and Brittany.

Although they sing a capella they are assisted by June Stevens, who patiently note-bashes with them week by week!

Burraton Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Phil Taylor Accompanist: Paul Fry The Choir was formed in 1964 and our current MD, who commenced his association with the choir in 1974 is now in his 43rd year.

Together the Choir has given well over 800 concerts in that time and raised many thousands of pounds for Churches, Chapels and many Charities.The Choir is a founder member of the Federation of Male Voice Choirs and is also affiliated to the Festival of Male Voice Praise.

Many special memories exist from concerts given in and around Cornwall and Devon and we are always delighted to join forces with other Male and Ladies Choirs, brass bands and orchestras.

The Choir has also been thrilled to combine with other Choirs at the Royal Albert Hall, Plymouth Pavilions and the Hall for Cornwall.

The Choir is delighted to have forged a link with St. Germans CP School giving annual combined concerts where much needed funds are raised for various charities. We also try to include / encourage young musicians in our programme so as to provide a platform for performance in front of large audiences.

Celtic Male Ensemble City of Truro Male Choir Musical Director: Russell Pascoe Accompanist: Martin Davies The Choir was born out of Chacewater Carnon Vale Male Choir when its practice venue moved to the City in 2003.The earlier name derived from the village choirs of Chacewater and Carnon Downs, which were formed in the 1940s and combined in 1991.

We will be celebrating 75 years of continuous singing later this year. Over the years, the choirs have had numerous Musical Festival successes, both in and out of the County, including our first competition foray into the Cornwall International Male Choral Festival, in May 2013. In 2015 at the Cornwall Music Festival, we won three cups including the Edgar Kessell Gold Cup for the best choir performance. Last year we sang at the Tregothnan Garden Party and in front of Truro Cathedral. We also hosted Ardudwy Choir from Wales, Mabe Ladies from Cornwall and sang at five charity events. We visited Gloucester at the end of September to sing with Churchdown MVC We were absolutely delighted last year to welcome the talent of Russell Pascoe as our new Musical Director.

As well as a well published international composer he is also currently Deputy Musical Director of Truro Choral Society as well as a Cornish Bard.

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Celtic Male Ensemble Musical Director: Alastair Taylor Accompanist: Roger Wills

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The Celtic Male Ensemble led by Musical Director Alastair Taylor, formed in the summer of 2014, and were invited to sing the winning entry of the ‘Cornwall International Male Voice Choral Festivals Composers Competition’ at Truro College. This small vocal group based in Redruth/Camborne, Cornwall has members with ages ranging from their early 20’s to their early 40’s. The Ensemble perform a wide range of songs and styles from big band to folk with a bit of musical theatre thrown in. In 2015, the Ensemble sang at the Festival Gala concert at Truro Cathedral with international tenor, John Treleaven. In 2016, they were invited again to perform at Truro College for the composers’ competition. In 2016, The Celtic Male Ensemble entered their first competition by entering the very well regarded, Camborne Music Festival. The Ensemble did very well and won categories for best choir, most marks overall, highest individual mark for the week and the best performance of the Festival.

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Cornwall Boys Choir Musical Director: Angela Renshaw Accompanist: Angus Webster

Four Lanes Male Choir Musical Director: Tim Hosken Accompanist: Ruth Wetherall

Formed in 2008, Cornwall Boys Choir is an auditioned treble voice choir for boys from the age of 10 through to the time their voice changes. It rehearses locally in ‘satellite rehearsal groups’ based in Penzance, Truro, St Austell and Callington. Managed by local singing leaders, these groups draw their membership from the surrounding primary and secondary schools. Full choir rehearsals take place monthly when the boys meet, sing, socialise and consume vast quantities of cake! CBC performs across the county, regularly with Cornish male choirs and occasionally on local radio and TV. They were featured in 2008 on ‘Songs of Praise’ and performed as part of the mass children’s choir in the BBC TV Children in Need broadcast in November 2014. The choir is administered and funded by Cornwall Music Education Hub.

Four Lanes Male Choir’s home is in the village of Four Lanes, near Redruth, in Cornwall. The choir was formed in 1944 to welcome home troops from the Second World War and we are proud to say that over the years we have been able, through our very talented musical directors, including Ronald Brown, Alastair Taylor and Michael Uren, to sing choral music to the highest standards. Our current musical director, Tim Hosken, also demands excellence in choir singing and in this he is very ably supported by our accompanist, Ruth Wetherall. Now in our 72nd year, our membership is over 60 men of all ages, from 18 to 80 plus and we are privileged to be able to play our part in keeping the tradition of male voice singing alive in Cornwall. Our choir enjoys festivals and competition and has had considerable success in winning many cups and trophies as the best competing choir. A marked feature of Four Lanes Male Choir is a commitment to communmity singing and the Cornish choral tradition. The sentiment is conveyed in our motto ‘Sing we for pleasure - for one and all’

Cornwall Cambiata Musical Director: Angela Renshaw Accompanist: Angus Webster The choir is aimed specifically at encouraging boys whose voices are changing, to sing. Initially funded by Cornish Arts organisation FEAST, the group is still funded by local groups. The late Dennis Arbon was a very generous sponsor. Cornwall Cambiata is not a conventional choir. Boys are selected to sing in local school groups, geared towards a specific performance. Membership fluctuates which is both invigorating and unique. The choir aims to provide large scale performance opportunities and encourage new audiences to enjoy a diverse repertoire specifically tailored for the group. We are proud of our musical Cornish heritage and this forms the backbone of the repertoire with works from Cornish composers (e.g. Russell Pascoe, who is also a leader of the group). The choir has performed in the Hall for Cornwall, Truro Cathedral, the Royal Albert Hall (twice) and has featured in ‘The Choir’ on BBC 3.

The group was formed, originally as an octet, more than 20 years ago and has since grown to its present number of 15, thus enabling it to expand its repertoire and tackle some more complex music. The group has sung in Southern Ireland, South Wales, taken part in the Morlaix Music Festival, as well as twice competing successfully in the Bournemouth Music festival, winning the Folk Song Class in 2006 and in 2010 The Male Choir Class. It also won the under 40 voices class in the 2009 Cornwall International Male Voice Choral Festival and in the same year received an award from The Cornish Gorsedd as “The Best Light Music Group”.

It has also provided some backing for a recent Christmas single

by Ralph McTell.The group was placed second in the under 40 voices class in the 2013 CIMVC Festival, and adjudged best overall Cornish Choir in the competition.This year, they have been invited to perform an Arts Council commissioned piece of music to celebrate the historic sounds of King Edward Mine-the oldest and best preserved tin mine in Cornwall

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Holman Climax Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Andrew Thomas Accompanist: Ria Clemens

Kerrier Male Choir Musical Director: Janette Eathorne Accompanist: David Turton

This well-known choir was formed in 1940 at the Climax Rock Drill and Engineering Works at Pool, Redruth, after two men, Jack Curry and Trevor Bray were working on the factory roof and saw the glow of the fires at Plymouth following the wartime bombing. Their aim was to raise money to alleviate the distress of the Plymouth victims. Within a short time Edgar Kessell MBE commenced as the Musical Director. Upon the retirement of Edgar Kessell in 1972, after 32 years, George Smith directed the Choir for eighteen years until he retired in 1990. Roger Wills then took over the baton until retirement from the position in 2008. Angela Renshaw then became the choir’s musical director until she retired in 2014 and the choir is now delighted to have as its musical director Andrew Thomas. Over the years the choir has promoted Cornish male voice singing in Cornwall and on tours to England, Wales, France, Germany, Spain and the USA. Originally known as CLIMAX Male Voice Choir, the name HOLMAN was added to its title during the late 1960s to reflect the change in the companies. Sadly the companies whose names the choir bears have ceased to exist.

The original choir was formed in 1944 in the village of St Keverne on the Lizard peninsula. Members were drawn from the local quarrying and associated industries with the idea of raising funds to help returning Second World War servicemen.The catchment area has expanded over the years and the 30 plus singers today come mainly from the Camborne, Redruth, Helston and Lizard area. Although the choir rehearses weekly in Helston, it retains close links with its’ roots in St Keverne and has a full programme of concerts and draws audiences from around the region.The choir is proud of the continuing part it plays in the musical tradition of Cornwall with several members recording over 50 years service with the choir.

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Imerys Mid Cornwall Male Choir Musical Director: Barry Hawken Accompanist: Dr. Marlene Bowden

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Established in 2008 by the amalgamation of the former ECC Engineers and the St Austell Male Voice Choir, the choir has its roots in the world famous china clay industry centered in St Austell and the surrounding villages, where for over 250 years, china clay has been mined by generations of local families and transported all over the world to be used in the manufacture of a huge range of everyday products, especially ceramics, paper, paint and plastics.

Throughout its history there has been a consistent presence of male voice singing within the china clay industrial landscape. Today the industry is led by Imerys Minerals Ltd and the choir is proud to have the company’s support in continuing this long cherished tradition of male voice singing in the mid Cornwall area.

Having participated in the competition on previous years, we focus this year on hosting one of the regional festival gala concerts and look forward to welcoming other choirs to these splendid venues.

Launceston Male Voice Choir Musical Director: John Beare Accompanist: Carole Baker The Choir was formed in 1969 and its current Director has been with the Choir since 1986. Jonathan Mann is its current Assistant Musical Director and Connie Wade its Assistant Accompanist.

The Choir has around 50 choristers and has a repertoire of over fifty pieces. It was also one of the largest Choirs to take part in the Cornish Federation of Male Choirs concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London in 2013. The Choir usually performs around twenty concerts and events per year and has also enjoyed making annual tours to other parts of the UK including the Isle of Wight, Wales, Dorest, Avon and Somerset, Gloucestershire and Kent. Several of its members are also part of the Trelawny Choir and sang on its tours to New Zealand in 2007 and Canada in 2011 and 2015.

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Marazion Apollo Male Choir Marazion Apollo Male Choir Musical Director: Kate Wood-Cattran Accompanists: Stella Pendrous & Maureen Hollow

Kerrier Male Choir Liskerret Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Judith Pinguey Accompanists: Heather Taylor Liskerret Male Voice Choir was formed in 1993 by current President Norman Pampling and 8 other local enthusiasts .Based in Liskeard they draw members from a wide area of East Cornwall and have enjoyed considerable success over the years,with various combinations of musical team and personnel. In pursuit of their love of male harmony singing they have travelled widely throughout the United Kingdom,including some very prestigious venues, as well as the many concerts performed for charity within the county. The Choir is currently undergoing a period of rebuilding, with about 20 very enthusiastic members under the baton of Judith Pinguey and are proud to represent Liskeard in the 2017 International Festival.

Formed in 1904 and reputedly the oldest male choir in Cornwall, Marazion Apollo Male Choir is based in the ancient charter town of Marazion, close to Penzance and faces the jewel in the Cornish crown, St Michael’s Mount This is the island castle home of our president Mr James St.Aubyn, whose family owned the castle from the date of the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 until 1954 when it was given to the National Trust by the 3rd Lord St. Levan, together with a large endowment. The family continues to lease accommodation within the castle from the National Trust.

The choir has a long and distinguished history, including winning the Male Voice Choir Advance Class and Championship Cup at the 2009 St Austell Music Festival. The choir has performed in Ireland, California, Brittany, Wales, as well as singing across the length and breadth of the County. In September 2010, the choir recorded a 3 track CD to raise money for Help for Heroes. The Choir’s Musical Director is Kate Wood-Cattran. Kate joined the choir in April 2013 and this is her first appointment as MD of a male voice choir.

The choir was formed in 1971 at Carnglaze Caverns near St Neot which remains its home parish. Loveny took its name from the river Loveny which flows through St Neot, the colour of its uniform reflecting the colour of the river and of the cavern slate. Initially the choir sang traditional Cornish carols, but its repertoire soon diversified and Loveny quickly became strong and very successful, raising may thousands of pounds for charities throughout the South West and appearing on TV and radio. Loveny won the St Stythians Cup at the 7th CIMVCF in 2015, for the best Cornish choir of up to 40 singers. It has an individual approach, setting out to entertain its audiences as well as retaining traditional male voice singing. It is also a very social and fun-loving choir and is very well supported by its ladies. Loveny frequently tours in the UK and abroad and recently (July 2016) came back from a most successful tour of Brittany. The choir has benefitted from a series of very talented MDs and pianists who have built the ‘Loveny Sound’ through its history; despite more change in 2016 the Sound continues as strong as ever.

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Loveny Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Colin Arthur Accompanists: Heather Taylor

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Mevagissey Male Choir Musical Director: Graham Willcocks Accompanist: Matthew Fox

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Still glowing in its sucess of its tour of Cyprus last October, Mevagissey Male Choir has entered 2017 in as strong a shape as ever. Now well into its 43rd year, the choir currently has approaching 60 members and is increasingly proud of its broad ranging repertoire, which, it believes has been the cornerstone of its continuing success and popularity. Formed by 16 local men in the humble surroundings of Percy Mitchell’s boatyard in November 1974, the choir has gone on to perform in many prestigious venues such as the Royal Albert Hall and Westminster Abbey (where it is believed to be the only male choir to have sung three times). It has sung on board ‘The World’ and more locally with Ralph McTell at the Eden Project; with Hayley Westenra at Truro Cathedral and three times at Cornwall’s world renowed Minack Theatre. Along the way it has raised tens of throusands of pounds for good causes.

The choir has also travelled extensively abroad to the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Gibraltar and Madeira, as well of course Cyprus. However the choir is ever conscious of its roots and every Monday evening in August it performs free concerts on the Mevagissey quayside for tourists and locals alike.

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Mousehole are delighted to be participating in the Festival once again. 2017 brings plenty of excitement for the choir, with many concerts around Cornwall and a tour to Brittany in July. Last year venues included Exeter Cathedral (twice), Bournemouth and Barnstaple. As well as giving 25 to 30 concerts each year the men also sing socially after practices and on several great nights out through the calendar! CDs have captured some of Mousehole’s changing and developing repertoire as the 80 plus members work to maintain and improve standards in their singing. The practice room is an enjoyable place to be and visitors are always welcome.

Founded in 1909, proud to be Cornish and delighted to promote male voice singing wherever they can, the men of Mousehole are happy to sing together whether it is on the harbourside at Mousehole in one of their open air events through the summer or in their annual ‘special’ concerts at St Mary’s Church in Penzance on the first Sunday in August and at Paul Church for a wonderful Christmas celebration. We look forward to meeting old friends and making new ones during the Festival.

Nankersey Male Choir Musical Director: Elaine Tangye Accompanist: Michael Uren/Clive Ellison Founded in 1950, mainly by men from the pretty little fishing village of Flushing, near Falmouth, the choir now numbers almost 60 members who also hail from other towns and villages in nearby west Cornwall. Today Nankersey is one of the best known and respected male voice choirs in Cornwall and beyond. The Choir’s mottos reads “To Sing for and to Give pleasure”, which is something they continue to do; having raised several thousands of pounds for local and national charities, organisations and projects.

History highlights have included BBC Songs of Praise”; “Highway”; Hampton Court Flower Show; the Royal Yacht Britannia; the Royal Albert Hall (with massed Cornish choirs); this festival; the Royal Cornwall Show and the Fal River Festival.

Praze Hayle Male Choir

A male voice choir was formed in Newquay in 1947 but this choir disbanded in 1956 and was not replaced until the 20th November 1974 when ‘Newquay Male Voice Choir’ held its first practice under the direction of Mr Morley Trethewey. Three members from this time still sing with the choir. Under the direction of Judith Pinguey the Choir developed into a forward-looking choir full of life and energy and determined to share their enthusiasm for singing with all those they meet. Under their present Musical Director Richard Braebrook and assistant M.D. and accompanist Chris Bennett, they are producing a refreshed, reinvigorated Newquay MVC sound which has already excited and entertained audiences locally and further afield on their recent tours to Yorkshire and Dorset. The choir continues its close involvement with the local community, attending schools and performing for the elderly and disabled in the area. The choir is delighted to be able to participate in the Cornwall International Male Choral Festival as it has done since its inception. It values and enjoys the unique opportunities it offers to meet, share with and learn from, male choral groups from around the world.

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Pelynt Male Choir

Newquay Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Richard Braebrook Accompanist: Chris Bennett

Pelynt is a village near Looe in South East Cornwall and was the home of Bishop Trelawny on whom the famous ‘ Trelawny’ is based. We are proud to call ourselves ‘Trelawny’s Men’.

Pelynt Male Choir celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2016. We are very ably led by our Musical Director John Trethewey who has done 20 years of service and Barry Jay our accompanist who has been with us for 28 years. The choir has 35 members. We perform 25-30 concerts a year mostly helping to raise funds for local charities but also travel further afield for an annual weekend away.

Notable away trips have been to Scotland, Brittany, Canterbury and many other areas of England. We encourage the younger generation to sing by performing regular concerts with the local school choir and we also entertain in local residential and nursing homes especially at Christmas.

Praze Hayle Male Choir Musical Director: Tim Hosken Accompanist: Margaret Bilkey The choir was formed in early 2006 by the merger of Praze and Hayle male voice choirs. Praze was established in 1923 and Hayle in 1978. Both choirs were successful in a number of music festivals and tours and participated in massed choir concerts in Cornwall and at larger venues such as the Royal Albert Hall. With the new name came a new visual identity with green blazers sporting a new badge which combined parts of those from the previous choirs. The choir is committed to a strong programme of concerts, weddings and other local events. The repertoire of the two former choirs has been successfully combined and expanded.

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I am delighted to be an Honorary Patron of the fabulous, Cornwall International Male Choral Festival. This incredible event brings together male choirs from all over the world and celebrates singing in a unique and glorious way.

What better thing is there in all the world than to sing together!

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Professor Paul Mealor International Composer, famous for compositions at the Royal Wedding and for the Military Wives.

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Pelynt Male Choir Musical Director: John Trethewey Accompanists: Barry Jay

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Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir

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Rame Peninsula MVC Musical Director: Jonathan Lewsey Accompanist: Liz Sidebotham

St Stythians Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Ken Downing Accompanist: Kathryn Downing

We are based in the twin fishing villages of Kingsand and Cawsand on the Rame Peninsula in Cornwall’s “Forgotten Corner”.

Established in 1976, we have one surviving founder member and most performances are for charity. Last year the Cornish Federation of MVCs honoured us with the President’s Plate, presented annually to the choir which has done most to involve its wider community in male voice singing. Some 40 members rehearse every Wednesday (7.30pm) in Kingsand Community Hall where we welcome visitors and new members. Our repertoire ranges from opera to rock, show tunes, sacred music, and traditional Cornish. We also operate a folk and sea shanty group whose main charity is Shelterbox. Our cds, which include work arranged by Liz, have received radio exposure.

Founded in 1947, the choir are celebrating their 70th Anniversary and have an exciting and varied programme of events planned throughout this year. They are a founder member of the Cornwall Federation of Male Voice Choirs and have participated in all five massed Cornish Choir concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London and most recently, in the Plymouth Pavilions. The Choir sings throughout Cornwall and beyond, singing a variety of music and providing something for everyone to enjoy in each of their programmes. 2015 - 2016 were very successful years for the choir, competing in local competitions becoming County Champions in 2016. The choir has taken part in all six Cornwall International Male Choral Festivals and is looking forward to participating again this year. They would like to thank their sponsors, JC Williams Ltd (Furnishers) of Helston for their continued support.

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St Buryan Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Becky Lovegrove Accompanist: Connie Keast

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Situated in the far west of Cornwall, the choir formed in 1940, was conducted by Hugh Rowe father of Cornish comedian Jethro. Their original purpose was to raise money to send Red Cross parcels to prisoners of war. Our 75th anniversary concert in December 2015 was a great success, with the proceeds again going to the Red Cross. We have sung all over Cornwall and beyond, including the chapel at the Tower of London and the Mansion House. Under the sensitive direction of Becky Lovegrove, accompanied by Connie Keast, we continue to sing for local charities and have strong links with the RNLI station at Sennen Cove, where there is a concert on the quay every August. We sing for the sheer joy of singing and the good company of each other.

Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Rosemary Cole Accompanist: David Crocker Affiliated to the Cornish Federation of Male Voice Choirs, the choir was founded in 2006 with just 9 members. Now having almost 40 members, the choir undertakes a very full programme of successful concerts which includes the traditional male voice repertoire and more modern compositions both sacred and secular.

The choir raises money for local charities and last year raised in excess of £12,000. A choir tour is organized each year with places visited including the Czech Republic, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

Plans to visit France are well in hand. The choir loves to sing with local choirs and to arrange reciprocal visits. We are very pleased to have taken part in the concert of massed Cornish choirs at the Royal Albert Hall in 2013 and again at the Plymouth Pavilions in 2016. We are delighted to have local television personality Justin Leigh as our President and the success of the choir is, to a great extent, due to the dedication and hard work of our Director of Music Rosemary Cole. As well as keeping us in line musically, Rosemary writes and arranges music specifically for the choir.

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Trelawny Mal e Choir Tintagel Orpheus Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Penny Barclay Accompanist: Jennifer May Formed in 1929 by a Welshman who moved to North Cornwall to quarry slate, the choir has raised many thousands of pounds for local and national organisations through its concerts. Not only does the choir give a regular series of summer concerts in Tintagel but it has also toured extensively throughout the UK and Europe, entertaining widely and promoting Cornish male voice singing. Under the expert guidance of its Musical Director and accompanist, the choir is looking to the future, widening its repertoire and attracting new members.

It is not only the enjoyment of singing that keeps the choir together but also the camaraderie. As choir members say, “We take our singing seriously, but not each other!�

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Trelawny Male Choir Musical Director: Elaine Tangye Accompanist: Elizabeth Sidebotham

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In 2003 some members of the now named Trelawny Male Choir sang with the Kernow Choir which toured South Australia performing at the Kernewek Lowender Cornish gathering and included concerts in Adelaide, Melbourne and the Sydney Opera House. In 2007 the newly formed Trelawny Male Choir, along with their supporters toured Singapore and New Zealand .In 2011 they toured Western Canada with concerts in Vancouver, Victoria, Banff and Calgary. In May 2015 they were invited to take part in the Cornwall International Male Voice Choral Festival Finale Gala Concert at the Hall for Cornwall. In September 2015 the Choir toured Western Canada. The Choir consisted of 85 choristers from 18 Cornish male voice choirs. They performed in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, City of Cornwall, Ontario and Niagara. Trelawny Male Choir is proud to take its traditions to other countries and would like to express their thanks to the Cornish Association of Toronto, the Carleton Choir of Ottawa, the Montreal Welsh Male Voice Choir, the Centennial Choir of Cornwall Ont. and the Niagara Mens Chorus for their assistance in making their tour so successful. The choir performs a variety of music and especially pieces with the aim of promoting Cornish music, singing and culture. The Trelawny Male Choir reforms for each tour and are delighted to have been invited to perform at the 2017 CIMCF.

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Treverva Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Paul Triggs Accompanist: Ruth Best

Wadebridge Male Voice Choir Musical Director: Paul Mitchell Accompanists: Gill Gowan & Grahame Lee

Formed by Edgar Kessell in 1936 in the small Cornish village of Treverva, their 80th Anniversary concert in Truro Cathedral proved outstandingly successful. The Choir has undertaken concert tours in California, Belgium, Holland and the UK and has achieved successes at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, the Welsh Mining Festival, Huddersfield, Blackpool, Cheltenham and in its home county of Cornwall. They have performed in St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Royal Albert Hall; Wells, Gloucester and Truro Cathedrals and by way of a change, in a Jumbo Jet, 37,000 feet above the Atlantic; 700 feet down a Cornish tin mine recording Christmas carols for the BBC in Wookey Hole Cave; at the Royal Agricultural Show in Stoneleigh; on a tall ship taking part in the Tall Ships Race starting at Falmouth; on a fishing trawler for the BBC during filming and at Trebah Gardens; Cornwall as part of the 2014 TV series “Glorious Gardens From Above.” It has also appeared on “Songs of Praise” recorded at Coverack by BBC World Service.

Wadebridge Male Voice Choir was formed in 1920 and is one of the oldest in Cornwall. At a time when some choirs are struggling to attract new members the choir continues to grow with over 50 regular choristers. This is largely due to the friendliness of the members and the accomplished musical direction of MD Paul Mitchell who continues to improve the quality of the pieces and extend the repertoire for all tastes. This is best evidenced by the choir’s free summer concerts on the picturesque Padstow Harbour side, where regularly the audience includes teenagers who are surprised to hear the choir sing modern up beat numbers. Of course traditional male voice pieces are not forgotten and are still a part of most programmes. The choir’s accompanists throughout the year are Gill Gowan and Grahame Lee. In March 2016 the choir entered the Wadebridge Music Festival and were judged as the best performing choir and rated as ‘Outstanding’ (the highest category available).

Truro School Boys Barbershop Musical Director: Gareth Churcher Directed by Gareth Churcher this young and diverse Truro School boys group sings in many different genres and although their repertoire is often light hearted and entertaining, they demonstrate a serious and genuine commitment to the music. They have already chalked up many years of singing and performing experience between them. Most of the boys also sing in the School’s Chamber Choir and were former boy choristers at Truro Cathedral. During the last few years the Barbershop has been involved in a number of concerts ranging from the School’s annual Hall for Cornwall concert, to the Music for Youth Festival and Cornwall Music Festival in Truro Methodist Church, as well as many school concerts.

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I am delighted to become an Honorary Patron of the festival, I thoroughly enjoyed my time with you all in 2015 and was also thrilled to witness how many choirs of all ages were involved.

This is truly how my singing started and I loved every moment of it. To this day nothing moves me more than the sound of male voices in harmony John Treleaven

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