The Goring Chamber Choir has its roots in the early 1950s when a group of friends including the local vicar and church organist met informally to sing together for their own pleasure.  The group expanded, local interest grew and in February 1951 the "Goring and District Musical Society" was founded.

The first concert took place in May of that year followed by a Christmas concert with the audience joining in traditional carols.  This set the pattern of the choir's year for some time - a high spot was the concert given in the coronation year when the main work was Edward German's Merrie England, followed by Zadok the Priest and Vaughan Williams' All People That On Earth Do Dwell, as in the coronation.

The Chamber choir still maintains its roots with village life.  At the memorable Millenium concert, in association with the local History Society, the choir performed music from the past thousand years.

During the 1960s Alec Emerton, the founding conductor and organist at Goring Parish Church, retired, though he remained as President until his death and retained his keen interest in the choir.

Five conductors during the next twenty years: Christopher Mahon, Ralph Allwood, Andrew Mackay, Timothy Kermode and David House, saw the choir change both its name and its musical traditions.  From being a largely village based group of some thirty local singers, the numbers increased, with the choir performing major works requiring orchestras.  Highlights of these years included Haydn's The Creation in All Saints, Downshire Square, Reading, and joining with a Polish choir from Lublin university to sing Szymanowski's Stabat Mater and Tippett's Negro Spirituals in Dorchester Abbey

Since 1979 the choir has annually sung services over a weekend in English Cathedrals, a tradition begun by Andrew Mackay who was the choir's conductor for over ten years.

The choir's present musical director and conductor is Frances Brewitt-Taylor who joined the choir in 1990 (in time to celebrate the choir's 40th anniversary in 1991) and since that time she has been a major influence.  Together with Janet Pound, the choir's accompanist, Frances continues to promote high standards.  The choir's Golden Anniversary was marked with a performance of Handel's Dixit Dominus with the baroque orchestra Charivari Agréable Simfonie.  The choir has also travelled to Belleme, Goring's twin town in Normandy, to Cantonigros in Catalunya for a worldwide choral competition, to Ghent, Bruges and Paris and, most recently, to Bilbao and Durango.

Many members have been with the choir for over twenty years, some over thirty.  Although no longer a small group, with singers coming from a wide area of the Thames valley, the members of the choir are still friends who have pleasure singing together.