Our current Musical Director is Jim Broadley. Jim has an excellent and very well established musical reputation within Fife and beyond. Through Jim's leadership and direction the choir continues to strengthening its well-deserved reputation for its interpretation and presentation of a broad and entertaining repertoire.
We were very pleased to welcom Robin Bell as our accompanist. Robin joined us at the end of our 2008-2009 season and immediately impressed the choir members with his musicianship and skill. Robin is well known in Scotland as an organist and as the head of music at Madras College. We all enjoy Robin's humour and wit and look forward to working with him in the future.
We perform concerts throughout the year in Fife and other regions for both local and national causes. On average our singing raises around £10,000 annually for these.
We are working to develop relationships with other male voice choirs and to have joint concerts with these choirs built into our annual schedule. In 2001 we were made welcome by Blackpool Male Voice Choir. 2002 saw us extend the warm hand of musical friendship to "The Sons of Orpheus" from Tucson, Arizona. In 2004 we sang with Stirling Male Voice Choir in the MacRobert Theatre. Stirling and in 2005 The Maesteg Gleemen Male Voice Choir from South Wales sang with us in Rothes Halls, Glenrothes in a concert for "Save The Children"
The Choir represented Fife in October 2005 when they visited Böblingen, South Germany, which is twinned with Glenrothes, Fife. We were made very welcome by our hosts, Böblingen Chor (mixed voice), and made many new friends and contacts.
Over Christmas 2005, we joined with pupils of Aberhill Primary School Methil, Fife and helped raise £1200 to enable a school for children with special needs to continue its work in Sarajevo, Bosnia. We have continued our association with Aberhill primary school, and in particular with the boys choir, now renamed voicemale@aberhill, who joined us as guests at our annual concert in 2006.
February 2006 saw us perform in Kinross together with the string section of Perth Symphonia. This concert organised by the local Probus Club raised £900 for Childrens' Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS).
The Choir is always keen to sing for suitable charities and enquiries can be made to our Secretary. (See contact page)
We meet for rehearsals in Kirkcaldy High School, Dunnikier Way, Kirkcaldy(map)on Monday evenings from 7p.m.until 9.p.m. Any male interested in joining the choir will be made most welcome. You do not need to be able to read music - all that is required is a reasonable singing voice and a willingness to work hard at rehearsals. We sing in four-part harmony - 1st and 2nd Tenor, Baritone and Bass so there will be a section to suit any singer. All music sung is in the main, well known and very singable. Singing is a great way of relieving stress in this busy world so why not come along and join us.
The choir is grateful to all that support our endeavours and are particularly grateful to our main financial sponsor, Ceramic Tile Warehouse.
Please visit our concert diary for dates and venues of concerts to be held over the coming months.