The choir was founded in 1968 by two married couples: Pamela (Director) and Geoffrey Thompson (Treasurer), and Sheila (Secretary) and Ivan Haslam (Tickets/CD).
In December 2005, the choir recorded the EMI Album 'Cantamus' one track of which entered the UK Singles Chart with their cover version of "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime".
[2] In 2013 Pamela Cook died, and the baton was passed to Ann Irons with Elaine Guy as Assistant.
Tributes from former students, associates and friends from all over the globe poured in, recognising her amazing contribution to their lives and to choral music generally.
She is to be commemorated in Mansfield with her sculpted head to be displayed in the Palace Theatre and by the commissioning of a special choral work dedicated to her.