Rehearsal schedule

Festival rehearsals fall into two groups:

• for the main three-day Festival in April, choirs rehearse and prepare independently for the most part. However, any choir member wishing to participate in a Festival concert must have sung in the combined rehearsals for that concert, unless permission for absence is given by the Festival Conductor. There are three combined rehearsals lasting two hours for each Division, each accompanied by Principal Festival Accompanist, Alan Brown. The final afternoon rehearsal on the day of each concert is also mandatory. These rehearsals are the opportunity for the Festival Conductor to prepare the combined choirs for their performances at the evening concerts.

• for the March concerts, weekly rehearsals are held in the period leading up to the concert on Saturdays and also on Sunday afternoons. It is expected that all singers will attend most of these rehearsals, which are taken by our Chorus Master, and accompanied by Festival Accompanist, Jean Douglas Tutt.  The Festival Conductor usually attends one or two, as well as taking the final mandatory rehearsals on Saturday and Sunday afternoons immediately before the concert.

The Schedule of Rehearsals

The rehearsals will be held in:

The Priory School, West Bank, Dorking RH4 3DG (PS)

United Reform Church Hall, 55 West Street, Dorking, RH4 1BS (URC)

Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, Dorking, RH4 1SG (DH)

St Mary’s Parish Church, Chart Lane, Reigate RH2 7RN (SMC)