Last Choir Standing Last Choir Standing Last Choir Standing was a 2008 talent show-themed television series produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom. Broadcast on BBC One in July and August 2008, the series saw amateur choirs competing each week to be the 'last choir standing'. The series was presented by Myleene Klass and Nick Knowles, with judges Russell Watson, Sharon D. Clarke and Suzi Digby. In the final, following a public telephone vote, the winners were announced as Welsh male voice choir Only Men Aloud!. A collection of songs from the series was released as an album in November 2008. The
City of Birmingham Choir previous conductor Sakari Oramo. Rehearsals take place at the Friends' Meeting House, Bull Street in central Birmingham on Tuesday evenings from 6.30 - 8.30 pm. The choir's conductor and music director (since 2002) is Adrian Lucas. The City of Birmingham Choir was founded in March 1921 and its first president was no less a figure than Sir Granville Bantock, who was Principal of what was then called the Birmingham and Midland Institute School of Music, and who was a recognised composer in his own right. The new Choir presented its first concert at the Town Hall on 28 November, conducted