A South London choir welcoming new singers with no audition

Next term: Saint-Saëns, Charpentier, Janáček

After our Summer break, we’ll restart rehearsals on Monday 8 September. The concert will be on Saturday 6 December: we’ll be singing Saint-Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël, Charpentier’s Messe de minuit de Noël, and Janáček’s Otčenaš.

For more details on dates and music over the next year, click here!

We’re a long-established choral society and a friendly group of singers

Established in 1886, the South West London Choral Society is a professionally-led choir of amateur singers, bringing a variety of choral works, both famous and little-known, to the community of South West London.

It is a welcoming choir, open to adults of all ages and backgrounds with an interest in rehearsing and performing choral music written by composers from Bach to Brahms, from Victoria to Vaughan Williams, from Mozart to Mendelssohn.

Thinking of joining a choir? Come to a rehearsal

We rehearse in Balham on Monday evenings. We welcome all voices without audition – soprano, alto, tenor and bass. We ask only that you are enthusiastic and committed to attending rehearsals – and sing in tune!

The start of the Winter Term is Monday 8 September 2025, and we are preparing for a performance on Saturday 6 December 2025 of Saint-Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël, Charpentier’s Messe de minuit de Noël, and Janáček’s Otčenaš.

If you would like more information about the choir, please telephone 020 7223 7017 or you can email us at contact@swlcs.org.uk.

The choir meets every Monday at the following address:

Balham Baptist Church
21 Ramsden Road
London
SW12 8QX

Nearest stations: Balham BR and Balham underground on the Northern Line.

Rehearsals normally start at 7.30pm and last till 9.30pm.