New Season Open Rehearsal - Everyone Welcome
Tue, 26 Aug 2025
Our new season starts with an Open Rehearsal on Tuesday 26th August 2025 and everyone is welcome!
If you're thinking about returning to singing, giving singing a go for the first time or even looking for a new choir then please come along and join us for the evening. We'll be taking a first look at the music for our October concert, Eternal Light.
We look forward to seeing you!
If you're thinking about returning to singing, giving singing a go for the first time or even looking for a new choir then please come along and join us for the evening. We'll be taking a first look at the music for our October concert, Eternal Light.
We look forward to seeing you!
2024-25
On Tour
24th May 2025 at Glasgow Cathedral performing some of our favourite pieces by composers old and new
Conductors: Andy McTaggart and Jenna Martin
Accompanists: Dida Condria and Andrew Forbes
HOPE
30th March 2025 at Ayr Town Hall with the Caledonian Consort
Gloria - Philip Cooke, Utrecht Te Deum - Handel, Rejoice in the Lamb - Britten, Mass in G - Schubert
Conductors: Andy McTaggart and Jenna Martin
Soloists: Katie Carmichael, Caitlin Mackenzie, Eden Devaney, Caspian Plummer and Andy McTaggart (Gloria)
JOY!
15th December 2024 at Ayr Town Hall with Newmilns and Galston Brass Band
Christmas music including works by Willcocks, Rachmaninoff, Britten, Sally Beamish, Vaughan Williams, Alan Bullard and Gardner.
Conductors: Andy McTaggart and Eden Devaney
Baritone: Seamus Brady
When it is Peace
27th October 2024 at Ayr Town Hall with Newmilns & Galston Brass Band, McOpera Ensemble and Andrew Forbes (organ)
Funeral Ikos - John Tavener, In Flanders (solo tenor) - Ivor Gurney, All the Hills and Vales Along - James MacMillan, The Armed Man - Karl Jenkins
Conductor: Andy McTaggart
Soprano: Catriona Smith; Tenor: Matthew McKinney
2023-24
SING
27th April 2024 at Glasgow Cathedral with a collection of choral favourites including works by Parry, Faure, Bruckner, Sarah Rimkus, Stephen Paulus and Bob Chilcott
Conductors: Andy McTaggart and Eden Devaney
Accompanist: Andrew Forbes
...and silence in the sky
17th March 2024 at Ayr Town Hall with The Caledonian Consort
Ein Deutsches Requiem by Brahms; Triptych by Tarik O'Regan
Conductor: Andy McTaggart
Soprano: Catriona Hewiston; Baritone: Ross Cumming
Noel
17th December 2023 at Ayr Town Hall with Newmilns and Galston Brass Band
Conductor: Andrew McTaggart
Christmas carols and songs including works by: Handel, Schutz, Kerensa Briggs, Bob Chilcott, John Rutter and Ola Gjeilo
Gloria
29th October 2023 at Ayr Town Hall
I Was Glad (Parry), Requiem (Faure),Gloria (Poulenc), Five Mystical Songs (Vaughan Williams)
Conductor: Andrew McTaggart
Soprano: Catriona Clark; Baritone: Colin Murray
Organ: Peter Shepherd
2022-23
At the Cathedral
20th May 2023 at Glasgow Cathedral
A selection of both sacred and secular choral pieces including works by Byrd, Tallis, Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Mullholland.
Conductor: Andrew McTaggart
Accompanists: Andrew Forbes, Peter Shepherd
Feel the Spirit
19th March 2023 at Ayr Town Hall with the Caledonian Consort
Puccini's Messa di Gloria, John Rutter's Feel the Spirit and well-loved opera classics
Conductor: Andrew McTaggart
Mezzo Soprano: Penelope Cousland; Tenor: Seamus Begg; Bass-Baritone: Will Frost
Christmas with Ayr Choral
11th December 2022 at Ayr Town Hall with Newmilns and Galston Brass Band
Christmas carols and songs, old and new, including music by Sweelinck, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, John Rutter, Victor C. Johnson and Kerensa Briggs
Conductor: Andy McTaggart
Organ: Andrew Forbes
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An Atlantic Voyage
30th October 2022 at Ayr Town Hall
Music from the Americas and Scotland including Kyrie and Gloria from Missa Ego Flos Campi (de Padilla), Nocturnes (Lauridsen), Shall We Gather by the River (Rimkis), Lassie Wad Ye Loe Me (MacMillan), I Landed With Seven Men (Johnston).
Conductor: Andrew McTaggart
Piano: Claire Haslin
Narrator: Stuart McKinlay
2021-22
ACU at Glasgow Cathedral
15th May 2022 at Glasgow Cathedral
Some of Ayr Choral's favourite works including Zadok the Priest (Handel), How Lovely is thy Dwelling Place (Brahms), Northern Lights (Gjello), Like a Singing Bird (Chilcott), Spinning Song (Doughty).
Conductor: Andrew McTaggart
Organ/Piano: Andrew Forbes
St John Passion by J.S. Bach
3rd April 2022 at Ayr Town Hall with The Caledonian Consort
Conductor: Andrew McTaggart
Evangelist: Matthew McKinney; Jesus: Colin Murray; Soprano: Lottie Bowden; Alto: Penelope Cousland; Tenor: Ted Black; Bass: Will Frost
Christmas with Ayr Choral 2021
Sunday 12th December at Ayr Town Hall
selection of Christmas Music including Von Himmel Hoch (Mendelssohn), O Magnum Mysterium (Lauridsen), A Ceremony of Carols (Britten)
Conductor: Andrew McTaggart; Assistant Conductor: Nils Meier
Soprano: Charlie Drummond; Baritone: Christopher Nairne; Harp: Sharron Griffiths; Organ: Andrew Forbes
