Leamington's Community Choir

Who We Are

Founded in 2022 by Linda Blunt, and with the continued assistance and support from Carol Jones and Claire Hartlebury (Treasurer), the Admin Team strive to ensure that Leamington Singers remains a welcoming, fun and energetic community choir.

· We rehearse on Tuesday evenings at St Nicholas' Church, Radford Semele during school term times.

· Uplifting and friendly weekly rehearsal sessions where we learn the new songs together.

· All arrangements are carefully prepared by our musical director for all abilities and voices who love to sing, socialise and have fun together.

· No auditions for entry and no age restrictions – just a love for singing is needed.

· We learn by ear and memory, so non music readers are very welcome. We have practice rehearsal tracks on our website to allow you to practice in-between sessions if you choose to.

· We rehearse from 8.00pm to 9.30pm. Drinks are available from 7.30pm for you to have a chance to meet and chat with others.

· We accept new members throughout every term and offer a free taster session for those who like to try before they decide to join us.

· As we are a community choir we try to keep our termly costs to a minimum. Please ask a member of the Admin Team for full details of payment arrangements.

Our Musical Director - Mike Horth

Mike is a Musical Director and Musician who has worked in the industry since the early 1990's. For much of his career, he has worked in Musical Theatre, both on tour and in the West End. His theatre credits as Assistant MD include: The West End premier of Flashdance – The Musical at the Shaftesbury Theatre; Beauty and the Beast (UK Tour); Flashdance – The Musical (UK Tour); Starlight Express (UK & Scandinavian Tours); Jesus Christ Superstar (UK Tour); Joseph (UK Tour); Copacabana (UK Tour); Fiddler on the Roof (UK Tour).

Other theatre credits as Keyboard Player include: Oklahoma (UK Tour); Whistle Down the Wind (UK Tour); Evita (AWP); Sleeping Beauty (Library Theatre, Manchester). He is also credited as Musical Director for numerous Pantomimes including: Snow White (Blackpool Grand); Aladdin (Sheffield Lyceum); Snow White(Tameside Hippodrome); Jack and the Beanstalk (Oldham Coliseum).

Mike has worked as keyboard programmer on UK tours of Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, Copacabana, and on the West End and touring productions of Scrooge.

In more recent years, Mike has been working as Musical Director and Vocal Coach for PEEL Entertainment Ltd, supplying live theatrical shows to clients including Thomson Cruise, Fred Olson Cruise and Warner Leisure Hotels. He has also been involved in creating many of the vocal and band arrangements for these productions. He is still very much involved in the cruise industry supplying band arrangements for a number of guest acts.

Mike’s most recent and ongoing project is a writing collaboration creating childrens musicals for primary schools. ‘What’s the Crime Mr Wolf?’, ‘The Greatest Show’ and ‘Gladis Baker, Gladiator’ are all published by Musicline Direct.

Mike has toured extensively throughout the UK as keyboard player for Joe Longthorne. He was Musical Director for the televised International Broadcasting Convention Awards Ceremony at the Rai Exhibition Centre, Amsterdam, and is now also the Musical Director for The Milltown Singers and the amazing Leamington Singers.