The last thirty-four years have seen the Choir swell to over sixty members. This increase in the size has allowed the Choir to attempt a greater variety of musical styles and more ambitious choral arrangements.

The Choir now boasts a repertoire of over 250 pieces of music ranging from Non Nobis Domine and Gwahoddiad to more contemporary pieces such as Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Elvis Presley’s Can’t Help Falling in Love.

Though the Choir has increased in size the aims of the Choir remain the same – to provide public entertainment and to raise money for charity.

The Choir itself is a registered charity, is owned by the members and managed by the Management Committee, in accordance with a written Constitution.

Election of Officers occurs at the AGM in September. We are self-financing, our income being derived mainly from members’ annual subscriptions, the sale of recordings and some concert fees.

Andrea has been the choir’s Musical Director since 2013. She has played the piano since the age of five, the violin from seven and has been singing for as long as she can remember! She studied for a degree in Creative Arts and Music in Newcastle then trained as a music teacher at Bretton Hall College followed by teaching music in two secondary schools in Doncaster and Wakefield.

She was a member of the Huddersfield Choral Society for four years and performed at the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall on two occasions. Andrea was a member of the North Yorkshire Chorus for several years and has been a member of Northallerton Musical Theatre Company for over nineteen years

Andrea has worked for the North Yorkshire County Music Service for many years, teaching full classes of primary school pupils to play a variety of instruments and small group lessons in piano, keyboard and voice in fourteen schools in the Northallerton and Bedale area as well as teaching privately. She is MD of Northallerton College Choir and for the last few years she has worked with the North Yorkshire County Youth Choir.