RHYL Music Club will host the Cantorion Sirenian Singers for a special event in the town next week.

The choir will perform at Rhyl Town Hall at 7.30pm on October 25.

Tickets cost £15 on the door from 7pm that night, with easy parking available nearby.

This choir has a long history of success in competitions and on the concert platform, thanks in large part to Jean Stanley Jones, director.

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It was the first Welsh choir to win the prestigious “Choir of the World” trophy in 1998, and they have appeared on major concert stages, and with the likes of Bryn Terfel.

Stephen Leeder, Rhyl Music Club concert organiser, said: “Speaking as the person who organises our concerts at Rhyl Music Club, can I say how I reacted to my first hearing them in Rhyl?

“Shock and surprise at the standard, while the range of music was way beyond my expectations!

“They were to have returned some time ago but choirs were hit badly by the pandemic, more so than instrumentalists.

“This has impacted choirs relating to school age young people and this is a worrying development on top of school closures and disruption for many.

“Fortunately, the choir is returning to normal life again.

“We open with Zadok the priest and then some religious items, while the second half has a more secular and specifically Welsh component.

“But perhaps the highlight - and isn’t this apt for our world at present? - is a selection from ‘The Armed Man’ by Welsh composer, Karl Jenkins.

“This music was commissioned as the last century came to a close and intended as a mass for peace, needed now as much as ever.

A choral concert is something of a departure for the Club based on its latest programmes, but the Cantorian Sirenian Singers have been invited to Rhyl on a number of occasions in the past.

Since being founded in 1990, the Sirenians have developed an international reputation for the breadth of their concert repertoire and their success in competitions,

In 2011, they swept the board at the Bangor International Choral Festival in Northern Ireland, winning four first prizes, and the prestigious Choir of Choirs Award.

Cantorian Sirenian Singers have given concerts at leading venues including Symphony Hall, Birmingham; St David’s Hall, Cardiff; and the Dom Cathedral, Berlin.

Rhyl Music Club’s late chair, David Birch, was also a member of the choir.