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Old Choristers' Association

Inevitably the time comes when choristers have to leave the Choir. When they are "read out" at their final Evensong, choristers automatically join the ranks of the Old Choristers' Association, which provides a source of mutual support and a way for ex-choristers to keep in touch with one another during the years ahead. Annual re-unions are held in Lincoln, where ex-choristers of all ages can be found meeting old friends and making new ones.

Many old choristers remain as students at Lincoln Minster School through to the Sixth Form. Scholarships and Bursaries are on offer both for musically and academically talented students, and old choristers find many opportunities to sing in various school choirs, including Chamber Choir and Chapel Choir. Chamber Choir rehearses several times a week and performs at concerts. Chapel choir sings each morning at school assemblies in the school chapel.

 

Chapel Choir rehearsing for Morning Assembly

 

 

 

 

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(photograph by Martin Doughty)

Clive Rickart (Head of Lincoln Minster School) with Phil Balsdon (President of the Old Choristers' Association)

 

 

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(photograph by Martin Doughty)

The Precentor, the Revd Canon Gavin Kirk, and the Rt Revd Dr John Saxby, Lord Bishop of Lincoln, look amused as President Phil proposes yet another toast.

 


If you wish to contact The Old Choristers' Association, please email Laurence Oliver.