Mozart
Requiem
Photograph © Rowena Padel 2025
Fordingbridge Choral Society is based in the ancient market town of Fordingbridge in Hampshire. Currently we have around 40 members drawn from Fordingbridge and the surrounding area. Our repertoire ranges from madrigals and part songs to the great choral masterpieces. The works of Bach, Brahms, Britten, Handel, Bernstein, Purcell and Haydn have all featured in our concerts. Our main performance venue is the 12th Century St. Mary's Church in Fordingbridge, but we have also appeared in a wide variety of churches and halls throughout the area.
Fordingbridge Choral practises every Wednesday in Fordingbridge at the Church Hall of the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows and St Philip Benizi, Salisbury Road, Fordingbridge, Hampshire SP6 1EG from 7.30pm until 9.15pm.
We welcome new singers. Membership of the Society is open to any and all who enjoy singing. If you would like to join us, please get in touch with the Secretary, visit our Contact Us page and fill in the form, or just come along on a Wednesday evening and try it out!
Our Music Director
Nigel Edwards ARCM
Nigel joined us as Musical Director in January 2013. He began his music career as a chorister at St. Paul's Cathedral at the age of eight, followed by a music scholarship to Canford School. After graduating from The Royal College of Music, he spent many years as an orchestral player, and was Principal 2nd Violin with the BBC Concert Orchestra, also working with leading orchestras including LSO, Philharmonia, CBSO, BSO. As such he has performed widely in major concert halls throughout Europe and Scandinavia, USA, Canada, Japan and the Far East.
He has worked as Musical Director of Parnham Voices performing a wide range of a cappella repertoire, and as a freelance conductor of choral and instrumental ensembles he has appeared as Musical Director in West End theatre and Manchester Opera House.
Nigel is also director of the Edwards Ensemble, an instrumental group comprising leading professional players from London and the south, who regularly perform with the Choral Society at our concerts.
Hear Us!
Here are a few excerpts from recordings of our concerts:
2018 - Mozart's Requiem. (Note that this link will open a new tab or window in your browser and play in YouTube.
Easter Concert 2022 - Bob Chilcott's Little Jazz Mass - Kyrie
Easter Concert 2022 - Bob Chilcott's Little Jazz Mass - Benedictus