A CELEBRATED North East Wales choir is to sing in aid of a Mold church.

The Sirenian Singers are to perform a fundraising concert for Tyddyn Street United Church next month.

The choir is just back from their successful engagements in Rome, where they lead the on-pitch singing of the national anthems before the Wales-Italy rugby match earlier this month.

Its members also sang at the Sunday Mid-day Mass at St Peter’s and gave a concert at the invitation of the British Ambassador to Italy at the Ambassador’s Residence in Rome.

The choir of about 50 voices will be conducted by Jean Stanley Jones MBE who founded the choir in 1990 and is their musical director.

Jean has won many awards and prizes for her conducting musicianship, including at the Bartok Festival in Hungary and the Welsh National Eisteddfod.

She was formerly the head of music service for Flintshire.

The accompanist will be former Maes Garmon pupil Christopher Enston who began organ studies at the parish churches of Mold and Tryddyn and is currently organist at St Asaph Cathedral.

The Sirenian Singers have given concerts at many venues at home and abroad, including the Thomaskirke in Leipzig, St David’s Hall in Cardiff, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and more locally at Theatr Clwyd, Mold and William Aston Hall, Wrexham.

Among its festival successes was winning the Choir of the World Trophy at Llangollen International Eisteddfod.

The programme for the Mold concert will include music from Wales and around the world, including Handel’s Zadok the Priest, the stirring Welsh song Tangnefeddwyr and Parry’s Rousing I was Glad.

The event will take place at the church, in Tyddyn Street, at 7.30pm on March 16.

Tickets cost £10 for adults and £5 for children, available from Mike Dugdale.

Contact mike@dugdale.net or phone 017918 666095 to book.

Alternatively contact any of the other church elders, or buy at the door.