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The Plaxtol Scholars

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The Plaxtol Scholars are a chamber choir based in Sevenoaks, Kent. The choir members come from London, Bromley, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells and Ashford areas of Kent, and also from Surrey and Sussex including Eastbourne. They sing without vibrato. The Plaxtol Scholars celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2006 with a special birthday visit that year to Chichester Cathedral, the very first church to offer the choir the opportunity to sing the services. Since that day the choir has sung the length and breadth of the country. With over 25 cathedral and abbey churches under their belt, including St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Durham Cathedral and York Minster, the Plaxtol Scholars are well versed in the rituals of sung worship in the Church of England. Future visits include St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin in 2010 and a tour of northern France in 2011.

The choir also gives a number of concerts each year, a cappella or with its sister ensemble The Plaxtol Chamber Orchestra. They opened the 2008 Plaxtol Music Festival with Haydn’s Missa Brevis and Bach’s Magnificat in D and also gave a concert as part of the Sevenoaks Festival. Other concert venues have included Ightham Mote, Sevenoaks; Rochester Cathedral; the Royal Botanical Gardens, Birmingham; St Edmund’s Church, West Kingsdown and Southwark Cathedral.

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UHR011: Resonet in laudibus – The Plaxtol Scholars conducted by Marius Carboni
UHR019: Noël - The Plaxtol Scholars conducted by Marius Carboni