Brandenburg Choral Festival of London St Botoloph’s Church, Sunday 29th October 2017 The Maidstone Singers presented an evening of songs and readings with a Shakespearean theme at St. Botolph-without-Bishopsgate as their contribution to this year’s Autumn Season of the Brandenburg Festival. The concert of 22 madrigals, part-songs and folksongs included the world premier …

We have recently returned from this year’s tour, which saw performances in Aix-en-Provence, Nice and Monaco. Aix is an elegant historic town, and we enjoyed an “a cappella” concert with Ensemble Vocal Agathe, a local ladies’ choir. In the elegant resort of Nice, we performed a shared programme with the …

Unique, extraordinary, joyful and sad, this remarkable musical and personal tribute by literally hundreds of the singers and instrumentalists whose lives had been touched and transformed by Jeffrey Vaughan Martin’s musical inspiration, provided an unforgettable experience for a large audience at Maidstone’s Mote Hall on Sunday 19th March 2017. Congratulations …

We are delighted to announce that Kathryn Ridgeway has accepted the position of Music Director with The Maidstone Singers. Having worked with Kathryn since the beginning of this season and enjoyed a highly successful performance in the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London under her baton, it is clear that she is the ideal …

A wonderful evening at the Actors’ Church in Covent Garden in a joint concert with the Voblana choir from Spain. The Maidstone Singers and Kathryn Ridgeway proved that their new relationship can provide an evening of the highest quality of choral music across the full range of their repertoire. A …

  Born in Waterloo, within the sound of Bow Bells and a pretty tough neighbourhood, Leslie spent his first five years there before moving to Orpington. All of his schooling and early adult life was spent in Orpington, and although he went to the same school as his wife Diane, …

The Maidstone Singers are pleased to announce that Jeffrey Vaughan Martin’s wife, Jean, has accepted the position of Honorary Vice President of the choir. Jean has been tireless in helping with the organisation of the Singers as with all Jeffrey’s many and varied activities over the years. She has been …

This was a tour that Jeffrey Vaughan Martin had planned for the choir but one which he did not live to see completed. The loss of their Music Director did not stop the choir from touring however; in fact, it charged their performances with an emotional intensity that provided their …

Jeffrey Vaughan Martin, Music Director of The Maidstone Singers, died suddenly last Friday. He was arguably the most important influence on Maidstone’s music scene for the last fifty years. He was music director of Maidstone Choral Union for 34 years, and more importantly he founded Kent Youth Wind Orchestra, Kent …

Ruth has moved around a bit more than many of us. Born in Wimbledon, she moved with her family to New York when her father, an industrial chemist, worked there. She returned to the UK – to Dulwich, age 5 and later moved to New Malden where she lived until …