Off Centre was formed in Chichester by national award-winning conductor Nicki Bennison in 1989 with the object of creating a choral ensemble who could sing practically anything to almost anyone. Since then, this mostly unaccompanied chamber choir would claim to have succeeded in that prime aim and they have raised sizeable amounts for local and national charities in the process. They have sung in churches, barns, restaurants, village halls, hotels and woods(!) and have invariably delighted audiences who had previously tended to the opinion that choral concerts were rather stuffy, intellectual, elitist affairs. Many of the arrangements sung are by friends and colleagues, but within their repertoire is a wide selection of traditional favourites.

Rachmaninov's "Bogoroditsiye Dyevo", sung in Russian
"Deck the Hall" in an anarchistic arrangement by David Willcocks
The premiere of our own Rex Latter's setting of "September Song"
Passereau's gossipy "Il Est Bel Et Bon" from the early 16th century
Lizzie Deane's astonishingly atmospheric "Loveliest of Trees"
"Minoi, Minoi" from Samoa
The introit "Ubi Caritas" set by Maurice Duruflé

All mixed with some spirituals, some 1930's and 1940's standards, some pop arrangements from the 1990's and maybe one or two things just for fun!