Services at St Michael’s are sung by an  SATB mixed, robed choir.  The choir leads services for Sunday Mass, Feast Days and for monthly Choral Evensong. Vespers is sung to plainchant by candlelight on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 

Repertoire
The music in the liturgy at St. Michael’s is Cathedral-style repertoire, ranging from plainchant, renaissance polyphony, Baroque and romantic styles, through to 21st century contemporary settings. Plainsong propers (psalms), from the English Gradual, feature in the Anglo-Catholic music and liturgy of St Michael’s and are sung for all services. A sample music list is linked further down this page.

Choir practice
Rehearsals are held in church on Tuesdays at 19:00 – 20:30 and on Sundays at 10:00 – 10:45 before the Mass at 11:00 and monthly at 16:45 before Evensong at 18:00. St Michael’s welcomes guest conductors and choir trainers and singers for special services and events. The choir is lead by Nigel Browne and Anthony Musson. Read more about our music leaders and associate musicians on our Music team page.

Joining the choir
The choir welcome new singers with a good ear and sight-reading skills plus a willingness to be part of a team. Camaraderie and companionship are a feature of the choir which enjoys regular socials to the local pub. Scholarships for singers and organists may be available to apply for, subject to funding.

Contact
To find out more, please email Nigel Browne and Anthony Musson at mountdinhaminfo@gmail.com. For a map and directions to St Michael’s church, click here.

Partnerships & Outreach
St Michael’s extends an open invitation to Exeter Cathedral Choir and the University Chapel Choir. Members of St. Micheal’s choir also sing with other church choirs in Devon and Dorset, St Andrew’s Colyton and Sidmouth Parish church. In 2024-5 members of this choir have joined with others dedicated to St Michael; at Shute near Axminster, at Heavitree, Exeter and at St. Michael’s Mount in Cornwall.

Our singers are also affiliated with other vocal ensembles which sing concerts and Choral Evensong at Cathedrals and Abbeys across the British Isles. Members and friends of the choir also take part in Mount Dinham events which include the annual national Heritage Open Days.

Choir tours
In the last decade these residential tours have included Yorkshire, Wales, Norfolk, Dorset, Fulda (Germany) and Mineo (Sicily). St Michael’s hosted an Anglo-Belgian choral collaboration in 2014 and members of the choir toured to Sicily in 2024.