The Gallery Singers are an auditioned chamber choir based in South London.

PROFESSIONAL

We strive for professional standards of music. Whether it's singing Evensong in Salisbury Cathedral, playing water glasses in the Thames Tunnel Shaft or simply busking in Waterloo Station.

Fun

We all have busy lives and most of our members have full or part time jobs, so it is important to us that our choir is a fun and welcoming environment. We have regular socials and most rehearsals end at the pub for some singers!

Community

Every year we hold a charity concert raising money for the likes of WaterAid, Save the Children and Variety the Children's Charity. We have also busked in most of London's major train stations for the Royal National Institute for the Blind.

Forthcoming concerts

Join us for our next concert

Forthcoming concerts

16th December 2023

Join us for our toddler friendly Festive Charity Concert at The Medieval Hall in Salisbury, on Saturday 16th December at 4.30pm.

To kick things off we will have a musically charged version of the nativity story (audience participation strongly encouraged) followed by a brief interval before the choir sings some of our favourite carols. So bring along your little ones and let's get that little donkey up the dusty road and listen to the lowing cattle before we jingle jingle all the way home.

The Gallery Singers are proud to support local charities with proceeds from their concerts and this year we will be supporting Salisbury Women's Refuge; a safe haven for women and children who experience domestic abuse. Salisbury Refuge provides accommodation for women and children fleeing domestic abuse including honour based violence, Female Genital Mutilation and Forced Marriage.

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Sing with us

We are not currently seeking new members.

Please check back here or sign up to our mailing list for news about auditions.

Prospective singers are auditioned by the Director of Music and Choir Manager. We run our concerts in a project structure with 5-6 rehearsals depending on the repertoire or over a single ‘Concert in a Weekend’ format. Singers are free to sign up for projects as their availability allows. When our next project is announced all singers are emailed a Google Form to sign up for the project. The final number of singers booked is based on the type of repertoire we are performing. We usually rehearse in Streatham Hill and Brixton but our ‘Concert in a Weekend’ gigs are usually held outside London.

Our Conductor

Duncan McKenzie

Duncan McKenzie has been leading The Gallery Singers since our inception in 2010, always seeking out the latest and greatest music to perform. Whilst studying music at the University of Leeds he conducted the Leeds University Music Society Chorus and toured the choir to Paris conducting in Notre Dame, La Madeleine and Chartres Cathedral. More recently he has guest conducted London Contemporary Voices (LCV) who have worked with the likes of Basement Jaxx, Elbow, Imogen Heap and other well known artists. Duncan is a Baritone singing with The Holst Singers under the direction of awarding winning conductor Stephen Layton. He has recently taken on the post of Director of Music at St Margaret the Queen, Streatham Hill.

Previous concerts

We have been running for 9 years

Previous concerts

See highlights from our previous concert posters ranging across the last 8 years that we have been singing together below. Our repertoire has included music by Byrd, Britten, John Tavener, Faure, Vaughan-Williams, Eric Whitacre, Eriks Esesnvalds, Ola Gjeilo, Pawel Lukaszewski, Morton Lauridsen and many more...