The Culbin Singers is a charity registered in Scotland number SC042577. Pages © A Joyce and the Culbin Singers 2014
Culbin Singers
Forres, Moray, Scotland
About the choir
The Culbin Singers was an amateur choral society with a membership of approximately 90, founded in 1971 and based in the Morayshire town of Forres. Members were drawn from across Moray. We sang under the musical direction of our founding conductor, Alistair Hardie BEM, supported by accompanist Edith Cook.
We rehearsed from September until early May on Thursday evenings, usually in St Leonard’s Church Hall in Forres.
Our repertoire of music ranged from Scottish part-songs to major choral works by composers that included Mozart, Handel, Rutter and Haydn.
Our programme usually included two concerts each year, a Christmas one in early December, and another in early May.
Governance
Out trustees met two or three times a year to plan concerts and other activities. We planned our concert programmes up to eighteen months ahead.
Dissolution
In September 2019 the members agreed a resolution to formally dissolve the choir. After 48 years of public performances it was felt that, due to the difficulty in recruiting new young members, the Christmas Concert on December 14 2019 would be the last performance, and thereafter the Trustees would undertake the steps required to formally dissolve the choir.