HORSHAM CHAMBER CHOIR, founded in 1967, has about 30 members of all ages who live in and around Horsham.
Jon Openshaw, HCC's Acting Music Director
Jon Openshaw, HCC's Acting Music Director
A New Beginning
As we begin a new year of music the Horsham Chamber Choir welcome Jon Openshaw as our new Acting Musical Director following the departure of Timothy Peters at the end of 2024 to relocate to Sheffield.
Jon brings a very different set of musical skills and experience to the choir. He is an operatic baritone and has performed with a number of professional opera companies. He has been directing choirs in the Horsham area since moving to the area in 2012 and has been the Musical Director of One Accord ladies’ choir since 2015. He currently teaches at Rikkyo School in Rudgwick. You can see his full biography here.
Horsham Chamber Choir had a busy year in 2024 under Timothy’s baton resulting in four very well attended concerts, and we wish him well in Sheffield with his plans to set up a choral foundation called “Facenoise” and run a concert series at The Mowbray and Victoria in Kelham Island.
We look forward to a similarly busy calendar in the year ahead with Jon leading us and hope you can join us to listen or indeed to sing with us!
The Chairperson of Horsham Chamber Choir is Lisa Quas, who has been a member of the choir since 2007 and was appointed to her role in 2023.
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Jon brings a very different set of musical skills and experience to the choir. He is an operatic baritone and has performed with a number of professional opera companies. He has been directing choirs in the Horsham area since moving to the area in 2012 and has been the Musical Director of One Accord ladies’ choir since 2015. He currently teaches at Rikkyo School in Rudgwick. You can see his full biography here.
Horsham Chamber Choir had a busy year in 2024 under Timothy’s baton resulting in four very well attended concerts, and we wish him well in Sheffield with his plans to set up a choral foundation called “Facenoise” and run a concert series at The Mowbray and Victoria in Kelham Island.
We look forward to a similarly busy calendar in the year ahead with Jon leading us and hope you can join us to listen or indeed to sing with us!
OUR CHAIRPERSON
The Chairperson of Horsham Chamber Choir is Lisa Quas, who has been a member of the choir since 2007 and was appointed to her role in 2023.
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Upcoming Events
Come and join us and enjoy some of the most famous operatic choruses at our concert A Night at the Opera at the Barn, Causeway, Horsham. Also star soloists will be performing some famous arias, duets and quartets. Like opera, many different emotions will be on show. However the first half ends with the Champagne Chorus and you can pre-order your interval glass of fizz with your ticket here or at the door.
A Night at the Opera
Sat, 21 Jun 2025
Horsham Chamber Choir is pleased to support this worthy and vital local community facility through donations from our audience donations. In 2024 we raised over £500 for the hospice.
Want Horsham Chamber Choir to sing at your next function?
Why not hire Horsham Chamber Choir to entertain at your next event? We can perform at corporate functions, charity events, community Entertainment events, birthday parties, christmas parties, awards nights, weddings, engagements, anniversaries, engagements, and even funerals and memorial services.
