Last season was a great success with three fine performances well supported by good-sized audiences, returning to more usual levels post-Covid. The season started with a very well received concert of Christmas music, which was followed in the spring by an outstanding performance of Bahms German Requiem at Pamoja Concert Hall and culminated with a concert performance of Mikado to a packed Stag theatre with a complete cast of professional soloists from Grims Dyke Opera in full D’Oyly Carte costumes and props – hugely enjoyed by all and a real climax to the Season.

We begin our 128th Season with  a performance of Handel’s Messiah at St Nick’s Church Sevenoaks on Saturday 7 December – past performances have always been popular and a great start to the Christmas Season. Our Spring concert will be a feast of french music  from Gabriel Faure and Maurice Durufle at Pamoja Concert Hall and we finish our Choir Season back at Stag Theatre with a joint concert with Sevenoaks Symphony Orchestra featuring Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony, with the Orchestra also performing The Lark Ascending – will be a great evening of orchestral and choral music.

As we start the year (and at the beginning of each terms rehearsals) we have the opportunity to take additional members in all voice parts. We are a friendly choir who enjoy ourselves in rehearsal and give high-quality concert performances. In the post-Covid period we had a great influx of new singers and continue to look for more – especially that endangered species – Tenors!!

So if you are newly working from home in Sevenoaks or want to return to singing the best of the classical choral canon blended with newer and exciting pieces then please see the “Join Us” page for details of membership.

We sing a varied repertoire of sacred and secular music, accompanied by the Sevenoaks Philharmonic Orchestra and professional soloists, all under the musical direction of Robyn Sevastos.

We perform three concerts each year: in March/April, in June and in November/December, with venues including St Nicholas Church, The Pamoja Hall, Sevenoaks School, Trinity School or the Stag Theatre providing a range of acoustics to match the musical programme. Our summer concert is usually given on the opening weekend of the Sevenoaks Summer Festival and in alternate years this is a collaboration with Sevenoaks Symphony Orchestra, conducted in rotation by the Orchestra’s Conductor, Darrell Davison and our own Music Director, Robyn Sevastos.

Chairman, Sevenoaks Philharmonic Society