About the Waverley Singers

The Waverley Singers is a vibrant and exciting choir of nearly 100 members. We perform four or five concerts a year in the Farnham area, covering a wide range of repertoire from Josquin to Jazz. We are lucky to be able to work with our Musical Director, Richard Pearce, who has a particular gift for devising inspiring and enjoyable programmes, using his vast knowledge of the repertoire. We have the pleasure of singing with professional orchestras and ensembles, soloists, and accompanists, including our versatile and gifted rehearsal accompanist, Jakob Rothoff.

We are a friendly and sociable group of people. Every January we host a Choral Workshop, which in 2027 will be on Bach’s St Matthew Passion ahead of our concert performance of that work in April. As part of our connection to the local community, we have a charity collection at the end of every concert, and since our concert programme restarted after the pandemic in October 2021 we have raised nearly £15,000! Further details can be seen here.

In recent years we have performed major traditional choral works such as the Mozart and Verdi Requiems, the Mozart Mass in C Minor, Bach St John Passion, Mendelssohn Elijah, Handel Israel in Egypt and Monteverdi Vespers, as well as smaller scale classical and contemporary pieces by a wide range of composers, including a sellout performance in March 2024 of Will Todd's Mass in Blue. In addition, we have made very successful tours, including to Austria and Slovakia in July 2019 and to France in 2024 (full details of all the above performances are in the 'Events' pages on this site).

2025 was our 70th anniversary year, and commemorations included the first performance of a new composition by Owain Park, commissioned thanks to a generous bequest from former Choir member Jo Reader. We look forward to starting the 2026-7 season with Rachmaninov’s Vespers and Vivaldi’s Gloria.

We are always delighted to welcome new singers; please see the 'Join' page on this site for details.

We are keen to attract a younger audience, and we offer free tickets for accompanied under-16s, subject to conditions, which you can find here.