Application for Membership

RSCM Voices(South) : 2016-2017 Season

Please complete all questions marked with anasterisk (*).
It would help us greatly if you were able to complete the other sections too .

*Today's Date (dd/mm/yyyy)
*Title / Dr / Revd / Miss / Mrs / Ms / Mr
*Forename
*Surname
*Address (please include postcode)
*Contact telephone number (landline)
Contact telephone number (mobile)
*Personal contact email address
*Are you a Personal RSCM Member? / Junior / Student / Individual / NO
If so, please state your MemberKey
(10 digits: case-sensitive, include punctuation)
If under 18:
*Date of birth (dd/mm/yyyy)
*Name of parent/guardian
*Parent/guardian emergency contact no.
*Parent/guardian contact email address
*Singing voice / Boy Treble / Girl Soprano
Contralto / Countertenor
Tenor / Bass
If 18+:
*Age range
/ 18-25 / 26-45 / 46-60 / 61+
*Singing voice / Soprano / Contralto / Countertenor
Tenor / Bass
Alternative voice part offered(if any)
*Is there any medical (or other specific
needs) issue that should be known by
organisers/supervisors at events?
If YES, please supply the details here, or on
a separate document/sheet of paper and
send with your application. The information
will only be shared with those who are
responsible for pastoral care at RSCM Voices
events. / YES / NO

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Name of RSCM affiliated choir
Name of choir director, traineror organist
Choir contact email address
Does your choir use Voice for Life?
If YES, please state whichcolour you are
currently working towards / YES / NO
Would you be interested in extra rehearsals
in your area? (led by RSCM Voices' Director) / YES / NO
Would your church be able to hosta local
area rehearsal? / YES / NO
RSCM Bronze (or Dean’s) Award? / RSCM Area:
Award: Pass / Merit / Distinction
Date (mm/yyyy):
RSCM Silver (or Bishop’s)Award? / RSCM Area:
Award: Pass / Merit / Distinction
Date (mm/yyyy):
RSCM Gold Award? / Award: Pass / Honours
Date (mm/yyyy):
St Nicholas/Cecilia Award? / Award: St Nicolas / Cecilia
Year (yyyy):
ABRSM/Trinity Singing grades? / Grade:
Award: Pass / Merit / Distinction
Year: (yyyy):
Do you have a music degree? / YES / NO
Please list any instruments you currently
play and the grade attained
Are you a member ofother choirs in your
local area?
/ YES / NO
Do you conduct or help train achoir?
(Please give details) / YES / NO
Are you connected toschools or colleges in
your local area? (Please give details) / YES / NO
Would you like to be informed about choral
events happening at churches connected
with RSCM Voices members? (**See below) / YES / NO
Would you be interested in hosting social
activitiesfor RSCM Voices members in your
local area? / YES / NO
Would you be interested inpotential trips
abroad or exchanges?
/ Trips Abroad: YES / NO
Exchanges: YES / NO

**RSCM Voices has a ready-made network of affiliated churches that host a variety of events such as concerts and 'Come and Sing' activities. We would like to inform you by email when we hear that one of these churches is staging events. Similarly, you might like to use this network to promote your own events.

*Please indicate which of the following events you would be interested in attending:

(if possible, please try to attend the Rehearsal Day', and a minimum of two other listed events)

Date / Venue / Event / Please mark with an "x" events you are interested in
Sat 17 Sept / Rochester / Rehearsal Day
Sat 22 Oct / Christchurch Priory, Dorset. / Evensong
Sat 26 Nov / Rothwell / Advent Carols
Sat 7 Jan / Peterborough Cathedral / Evensong
Sat 18 Feb / Ely Cathedral / Evensong
Sat 18 March / Norwich Cathedral / Evensong
Mon 17 April
Easter Mon. / Rochester Cathedral / Evensong
Sat 6 May / Westminster Cathedral / Evening Prayer
Sat 10 Jun / Rehearsal Day / Venue tbc
Sat 22 Jul / Southwark Cathedral / Evensong
Sat & Sun
5/6 Aug / Christchurch Cathedral,
Oxford. / Evensong (Sat) and
Eucharist (am) and Evensong (Sun)

*Application to RSCM Voices:

I apply to sing with RSCM Voices during the 2016-2017 season.I understand that RSCM responsibility extends solely to the venue and during the stated times of each event and that my travel arrangements and safety are at my own risk. My name here constitutes my agreement:

Signature of applicant: ______

Signature of parent/guardian (for all applicants under 18):______

What to do now:

  • Your choir trainer (where appropriate) should keep a copy of this form containing handwritten signatures, and should be able to produce it if requested by the RSCM.
  • Please submit all applications, including those for additional members of the same family or choir, as individual files (though feel free to attach them all to the same email).
  • You may prefer to use a more distinctive filename if submitting your form by email (e.g. adding a surname or church, and a date in the format ddmmyyyy). This is optional.
  • If submitting by email, please attach your edited version of this document (and any others needed) and send to
  • Alternatively, you can post the completed form to:
    Andrew Robson, Voices South Administration, 19 The Close, Salisbury, SP1 2EB.

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