Goring Chamber Choir has just returned from a flying visit to Bilbao in Spain where it performed two concerts.

The first was in Bilbao Cathedral on Friday, April 16th, and the second concert was in Durango, just outside Bilbao, in the Basilica Santa Maria de Durango the following evening.

Such was the choir’s popularity it received standing ovations and was asked to sing anthems during the Sunday morning mass in Bilbao Cathedral before flying back to the UK.

Musical director, Frances Brewitt-Taylor, said: "The trip was a great success, both socially and musically, maintaining the standard set by the work we did for our recent CD.

"Both venues were packed, and it was enormously rewarding for all of us to see such a positive response from our audiences."

Choir chairman, Stuart Crippen, said: "The choir was received with the utmost cordiality and given generous hospitality.

"We have extended an invitation to the Bilbao Cathedral Choir and the choir of the Basilica Santa Maria de Durango to come to Goring. Arrangements will shortly begin to schedule the visit, probably some time early in 2005."