Gippeswyk Singers - Member Organisations

In 1972, Geoff Lavery who was  teaching  at  Ipswich School, founded a small chamber choir and called them the Gippeswyk Singers. He conducted them until he left Suffolk in 1986, to take up and appointments in Lancashire and Bedfordshire
Barry Salmon next  took up the baton and conducted the choir until 2010, arranging a great deal of music especially for them – a tenure of nearly 25 year!  Alan Loader conducted the choir in 2010 for just over a year.
Coming full circle, Geoff Lavery  returned to Suffolk  in January 2012 upon his retirement as Deputy Head in Bedford, and once  again occupies the position of Musical Director of the choir he founded 40 years previously!

We are a friendly group with about forty members, whose repertoire includes a wide range of genres from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Under the musical direction of Geoff Lavery rehearsals are at Bantoft  Vestry,  St.Augustine’s Church Ipswich every Monday at 7:30pm
We are a non audition choir.
Our repertoire includes Classical, Madrigals, Carols, Comic, Folk, Spirituals.
Our venues while we rehearse at  St Augustine`s Church Ipswich,  we perform at many venues throughout Suffolk