Brecon Choir Festival
The first Brecon Choir Festival takes place on the 22-24 July, showcasing some of Wales’ finest musical talent. Highlights include a Grand Concert with Aberhonddu & District and Dunvant Male Choirs, the latter in their 125th year.
Brecon Choir Festival is a brand new festival for 2022 with three days of exceptional music, showcasing some of Wales’ most established and upcoming talent.
This year’s Grand Concert will see Aberhonddu & District Male Choir joined by Dunvant Male Voice Choir, the longest continuously singing male voice choir in Wales. Other acts include Talgarth Male Choir, Brecon Singers, Brecon Cathedral Choir and Alive & Kickin’ Community Choir.
Other highlights include a musical walking tour of the town on the Saturday and for the ‘afterglows’ on the Friday and Saturday evenings when we will have the chance to end the night in song!
Find out more about the Brecon Choir Festival weekend and book your tickets here.
Find out more about the town of Brecon here, it includes where to stay, visit and eat as well as local walks – read more here.
Time & Location
About The Event
Formed in 1969 Talgarth Male Choir has been entertaining audiences for over 50 years. The choir has sung at the Royal Albert Hall on six occasions, twice at the Millennium Stadium as part of the World Choir and three times in the Festival of Remembrance concert at St. David’s Hall, Cardiff.
The Alive & Kickin’ Community Choir, based in Brecon, was founded in 2013 by singer songwriter Tanya Walker and is a choir for people of all backgrounds and singing abilities.
The concert will be compered by Mark Salmon, a London-based poet and chorister with London Welsh, Cor y Boro
Time & Location
23 Jul, 13:00 – 14:30 BST
The Chapel, Christ College, Llanfaes, Brecon LD3 8AF, UK
About The Event
The Brecon Singers was founded as the Brecon Cathedral Singers in 1966 by the then Cathedral’s Director of Music, David Gedge, providing an opportunity for the people of Brecon and surrounding area to sing and perform major choral works and to augment the Cathedral’s choristers. Over these five decades, the choir has performed a broad repertoire of choral music including many of the major sacred works. Performances have taken place in Brecon, around the UK and overseas. The Brecon singers hold regular singing workshops given by their current director (Robert Evans) or with guest leaders, including John Rutter.
Join members of Eschoir and other singers as they walk and sing around town!
Time & Location
23 Jul, 15:00 – 16:30
Brecon, Brecon LD3, UK
About The Event
This event is not ticketed but if you would like to receive infromation about where the tour will be stopping to sing register here for updates. Starting point Theatr Brycheiniog
Time & Location
23 Jul, 19:00 – 21:30
Brecon Cathedral, Cathedral Close, Brecon LD3 9DP, UK
About The Event
The Dunvant and Brecon choirs will be joined by two young soloists for this concert:
Lauren Williams who is a 19 year old soprano from Glynneath and is currently studying Vocal and Opera Studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) in Cardiff. Osian Clarke who is 21 years old and a former Head Boy at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford. He is currently in his third year of studies at the very prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London, where he is studying a BMus degree course in Vocal Performance and Opera Studies under the tuition of tenor Ryland Davies.
Brecon Cathedral will be offering the final event of the weekend with visitors able to join the cathedral choir for a special evensong.
Time & Location
24 Jul, 15:30 – 17:00 GMT-7
Brecon Cathedral , Brecon LD3 9DL, UK
About The Event
This event is not a ticketed event but there will be a retiring collection for a local charity.
Find out more about the Brecon Choir Festival weekend and book your tickets here.
Find out more about the Brecon here, it includes where to stay, visit and eat as well as local walks.