Student Stories
Shapshot - The Choir
The Choir
Rebecca Madden was a mainstay in many aspects of College life, but in
particular took an active role in the Grey College Choir.
Rebecca
Madden
During my time here at Durham I have
been deeply involved in the musical life of
Grey College. When I first arrived I looked
at a few different college choirs, but found
that my own college choir, Grey choir, was
the perfect balance of serious performance
and relaxed, friendly attitude to suit my
contact hour heavy degree! I was award-
ed a choral scholarship and sang with the
choir in their various events and concerts.
I enjoyed my time in choir so much that
at the end of my first year I decided to go
for an exec position and ended up being
elected as the president.
I was keen for the choir to have as many
performance opportunities as possible
and so I set about organising a Christmas
concert, carolling at the Christmas Market,
carolling at Christmas formal, a carol ser-
vice in college, a joint service in the Cathe-
dral with St. Mary’s College, and an Easter
concert as wel