Our next concert on 22nd November features Handel and Haydn.

Phoenix Singers is an amateur choral society that was founded by musician Malcolm Russell in 1976. We are based in the historic and lively market town of Framlingham in east Suffolk. With a choir of some 70 mixed voices we perform three concerts a year, mainly of sacred/liturgical music but occasionally secular, using the space and fine acoustic of St Michael's parish church. Sometimes we combine forces with Aldeburgh Music Club to perform a major work in the renowned Maltings concert hall at nearby Snape. Additionally, Phoenix Singers give a Christmas concert of music and readings each year in St Michael’s.

For our main performances the choir always engages professional soloists and a small orchestra of mostly professional musicians, with the aim of giving a high standard of performance. Occasionally we use a pianist to accompany one of the concerts.

Our new 2008/9 season’s programme ranges from some well-known Classical works of Handel, Haydn and Mozart to a selection of popular choruses from Romantic opera, and including a melodic Mass by the young Schubert and an entertaining short opera by Gilbert and Sullivan. We are pleased to welcome Edmond Fivet CBE as our Guest Conductor, assisted for some rehearsals by William Saunders.