Welcome

The Barnby Choir, based in Wilmslow, Cheshire, has approximately 60 members of all ages and from all walks of life. We share a love of choral music and a desire to produce exciting performances to a high standard. Our repertoire includes major sacred and secular choral works as well as more unusual music, both traditional and modern.

We meet for rehearsals on Tuesday evenings from September to May, and put on three or four concerts a year, frequently with professional soloists and instrumentalists. Rehearsals are held from 8-9.45pm at
Wilmslow Methodist Church, Kings Close, Water Lane, Wilmslow SK9 5AR

We are always pleased to receive applications from prospective members in all sections of the choir (soprano, alto, tenor and bass), and we are currently keen to expand our numbers for what promises to be an enjoyable year both musically and socially.

We offer FREE MEMBERSHIP to students and reduced fees are available for the under-25s. Any singers wishing to join us will be most welcome at rehearsal any Tuesday evening. If you are interested in joining us, or further information please contact the Choir Secretary on 0161 485 1659, or email us using the form below.

Latest news

Barnby choir 80th-logo

During our next season (2025-26) we will celebrate the 80th anniversary of Bertie Barnby founding the choir. An exciting and varied programme has been arranged to commemorate this wonderful achievement. For further details please visit the Concert Dates tab.

Sing with The Barnby Choir!

Are you interested in joining our 80th Year Celebrations and singing some of the great Choral Works? If so, join us as we start our exciting new season on Tuesday 9 September. The first few weeks will be ‘New Singers friendly’, so there’s no better time to step up and try us out.
We will be rehearsing Mozart’s Great C minor Mass for our Celebration concert on Saturday 6 December 2025.
Next March we will be singing Handel’s Messiah (Mozart arrangement!)
Rehearsals are on Tuesdays from 8.00 to 9.45 pm in Wilmslow Methodist Church. If you are interested, do please get in touch or just arrive and we’ll take it from there. No strings attached!
For more information call Dave on 07973 381778 or Carol on 0161 485 1659 or view our website for more details and clips of us singing!
And on Saturday 7 February 2026 Singing Day with Bob Chilcott Aesop’s Fables and Gloria. Early booking advised – see Website for further details later in the year

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Support Us

After almost 80 years of successful music-making, The Barnby Choir continues to thrive and has exciting plans for the coming seasons. To help realise these plans, we are developing a number of fund-raising schemes, among them the ‘Friends of the Barnby Choir’, through which members of our choir and audience can be more involved in securing the Choir’s future. For further information on how to become a Friend of the Barnby Choir, please visit our new Support Us page,

Lloyd Buck conducting