[1] The history of Kingston Choral Society began in December 1949 when the Mayor of Surbiton gathered local church choirs to sing Handel's Messiah in March 1950.

[5] In 2003 Kingston Choral Society joined with 46 other choirs to commission The Kestrel Road from Peter Maxwell Davies, under the auspices of Making Music,[7] in celebration of his 70th birthday.

[5] The choir occasionally performed abroad, notably in Delft (which was at that time twinned with Kingston upon Thames) in 1990, in Venice in 2004 and in New York City and Connecticut in 2007.

[2] He left Kingston Choral Society in 2010 to take on the post of Music Director at Clare College, Cambridge,[11][12] which had been previously held by his colleague and supporter John Rutter.

Its charitable objects are "the study and practice of choral music in order to educate the public in its arts and sciences, by the presentation of concerts and other activities."