Each season we include a choral concert and it is growing in popularity as is proved by the fact that St Mary’s Church in Twickenham is filled to capacity.

This season we have invited the Exmoor Singers of London which was founded in the early 1980’s as a student choir based at London’s Imperial College. The name, incidentally, has no connection with the bleak stretches of Exmoor but as the choir had no name when it was founded it decided to commemorate the departure of its progenitor, Alan Moore by becoming the "Ex-Moore" singers. A few grammatical adjustments along the way and the joke remains.

The choir has a very extensive repertoire ranging from the baroque to a long term project of promoting and commissioning works of today's composers. This range of repertoire is demonstrated in their visit to the Richmond Concert Society by including music by Gibbons and Purcell to music of today including works by Peter McGarr and interestingly a recent choral work by one of the members of the Richmond Concert Society’s Music Committee, Kevin Raftery.

James Jarvis, the conductor of the choir, was a founder member and on taking up the baton has steered the choir from its days singing in student halls through to being the Sainsbury Mixed Voice Choir of the Year, and thereafter maintaining its position as one of the finest and most adventurous amateur chamber choirs of today.