About the Choir

The Wycombe Orpheus Male Voice Choir was founded on 2 January 1923 at Westbourne Street Methodist Church, and performed its first concert there less than five weeks later. This was the forerunner of many such concerts around the town in the early years.

The Orpheus is noted for its magnificent sound and is received with enthusiastic and warm appreciation by the many audiences, large and small, to whom the Choir sings each year. The Choir invariably creates a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, whilst maintaining the highest musical standards. Its concerts raise considerable sums of money for charities as well as giving great pleasure to audiences.

While most concerts are performed in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding Counties of Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire and Middlesex, the Choir has sung in places as far afield as Brighton, Blackpool, Wales, West Germany and Jersey. In recent years it has performed at the Millennium Concert in Wells Cathedral, the International Variety Club’s Award Dinner in the London Guildhall, and has given a charity concert in the beautiful environs of Magdalen College, Oxford. It has also sung in the Royal Festival Hall, and on several occasions as a guest English choir in the London Welsh Festival of Male Choirs at the Royal Albert Hall, most recently in October 2006.

Over the years, the Wycombe Orpheus Choir has earned accolades in national Male Voice competitive circles, with over sixty festival awards to its credit, the most recent being a first place at the 2004 International Choir Festival of Jersey (follow this link to Jersey Festival website).