About the Choir

The choir was originally founded to keep alive the Anglican Choral Tradition in churches where there are no longer choirs. For 10 years this has been the core workload of the choir, undertaking 8-12 visits a year to Rural churches and also to Cathedrals when the resident choir is on holiday. In this time we have also sung festal services for the major Northern festivals.
We have about 26 members who come from all over Yorkshire (and even Lancashire and Lincolnshire). However, new sight reading members are always welcome. There is no weekly commitment as practices are only held when needed.
Our repertoire is Anglican Church Music from Tudor Times to the present day and includes composers such as Tallis, Gibbons, Pawley, Randall-Thompson and Knight.
The choir is also available for Weddings and Concerts.

This is a really friendly choir
One of our newer members

The Musical Director

Tim Knight was born in Northallerton and became a chorister at York Minster under the direction of Dr Francis Jackson CBE, He then studied Choral conducting with the late John Coates. He presently directs Vocalis a Harrogate based Chamber Choir and Thornton Vocal union a large Mixed voice choir in Bradford, and his enthusiastic and dynamic style together with a reputation for his knowledge of the Choral repertoire and imaginative programming have made him a popular guest conductor. Recent appearances and workshops have included Durham Choral Society Billingham Choral society and the Lea Valley singers in Preston. Also a widely published and performed Composer with over 120 works in print here and in the USA, last year the Heritage singers and Vocalis recorded a CD of many Choral works and the Kiev Philharmonic recorded one of his major Orchestral works