The Edge Chamber Choir
The Edge Chamber Choir was founded in 2014 by Ros Crouch, a keen and experienced choral singer. She discovered that there were a number of singers in South Shropshire looking for the opportunity to sing challenging and inspirational choral music by 20th & 21st century composers.
Following their successful first concert in July 2014, the choir has gone from strength to strength and has performed a wide variety of music including pieces written and arranged especially for the choir, as well as choral favourites such as Duruflé's Requiem and Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb. The choir has performed in venues including St Laurence's Church in Ludlow, St Michael's Church in Tenbury, Leominster Priory, the United Reformed Church in Church Stretton, the Ludlow Brewery and the Ludlow Assembly Rooms.
In March 2016 the choir took part in the Choir of the Year competition and received positive comments from the judges: "This was an excellent tour de force." "...beautifully and sensitively sung, with lovely blend and balance." "Good clarity of tone and diction..."
In 2019 the choir was awarded a place on Making Music's 'Adopt a Composer' scheme and worked with composer Rob Jones to create a new choral piece, 'Drift', which was premiered in Leominster Priory and later broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Ros Crouch, Music Director
Ros began her musical life at the age of seven by learning to play the cornet and joining her local church choir. She studied music at the University of Liverpool, with the trumpet as her first instrument, and it was here that she had her first singing lessons. Moving to Tunbridge Wells after graduating, she sang in a number of choirs including the Corydon Singers with whom she made over 30 CDs.
After working in a number of fields outside music, in 2007 she moved to Dubai and began teaching singing and brass instruments. Whilst there she took over the Dubai Singers and discovered a love of conducting. She has since started a number of choirs, including the Corvedale Choir, Voces Intimae, the Edge Chamber Choir and a new daytime classics choir.
Ros sings with Ex Cathedra, based in Birmingham, one of the UK's leading choirs.