Wicklow Choral Society is a mixed voice choir of between around fifty singers. Members come from all walks of life – what we have in common is our enjoyment of singing good choral music.

The choir was founded as Wicklow Choral Group in 2002 by Marie Kavanagh. Frank Kelly became musical director in 2004 and the choir was renamed Wicklow Choral Society in honour of the legendary Mirette Dowling who for many years from 1963 directed a choir of that name in the town.

WCS sing a wide range of choral music and have performed works by composers such as Vivaldi, Mozart, Haydn and Schubert right up to modern day composers including Morten Lauridsen, Karl Jenkins, Howard Goodall and Ola Gjeilo. You can hear extracts from some of our previous concerts in the Our Music section of our website www.wicklowchoralsociety.net

We perform at least two concerts a year – a Christmas Carol Concert in December and our main concert in May. Our May 2020 programme will be Dan Forrest’s ‘Requiem for the Living’ and John Rutter’s ‘Magnificat’. Many of our members will travel to New York in June as part of the NY Premiere of Howard Goodall’s ‘Invictus; a Passion’, which we premiered in Ireland with Bray Choral Society in the presence of the composer in February 2019

Piece Performed:Lullaby (O Men from the Fields) a setting of Padraic Colum's poem by Bill Ellison, composed in 2010 Choir Director: Frank Kelly