City of Cork Male Voice Choir

The City of Cork Male Voice Choir is an amateur TTBB choir which was founded in May 1968.  Over thirty years later, the Choir is renowned for its musical versatility and dedication to good music and good fun. We currently have in excess of 50 members.

The choir’s musical history includes many competitive successes in local and national competitions. Appearances include Middlesborough, Teeside, and the International Eisteddfod at Llangallen, North Wales. We have also appeared on stage in  London’s Royal Albert Hall with other leading international choirs in  “A Night Of A Thousand Voices”.

For the last number of years the Choir has staged a series of “Opera Spectacular” concerts. These concerts have featured such international operatic talent as Denis O’Neill, Cara O’Sullivan, Regina Nathan and Edmund Barham to name but a few, much to the delight of their audiences.

The Choir’s talent is not limited to concert work and they have appeared in many fully staged operatic productions in recent times as guests of Kinsale Opera and Opera Cork. These shows include Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, La Traviata, Madama Butterfly and Carmen. They have also collaborated to great effect with Cork’s Barrack Street Band for joint concerts to raise funds for local charities. The Choir have also staged many smaller concerts to raise funds for worthy causes, most recently in the parish churches at Inchegeela and Ballinadee.

As ambassadors for Cork and Ireland, the Choir has ranged far afield.  Recent trips abroad have included visits to Germany, North Wales and Prague.  Their most recent trip was to New York where they marched in the 2004 St Patricks Day Parade.

The Choir has a very busy schedule. As well as taking part in competitions, we usually present at least one major concert per year. In addition to this are regular appearances at charity, religious and civic functions, fund raising events etc. Rehearsals for all these engagements take place every Tuesday and Thursday night at Sullivans Quay School.