The 2009 Festival ran from Thursday 16th April to Saturday 18th April 2009.

The evening programmes included Mendelssohn "Lauda Sion", Puccini "Messa di Gloria", Handel "Zadok the Priest" and "Blessed are they that consider the poor" (Foundling Hospital Anthem), Jonathan Willcocks "A Great and Glorious Victory", Michael Haydn "Missa in honorem Sancta Ursulae" and Joseph Haydn "Te Deum" as well as the competition pieces.

All three concerts featured the Leith Hill Festival Choirs and either the English Festival Orchestra or Canzona under the baton of Festival Conductor Brian Kay.

Highest aggregate marks:Holmbury St. Mary (Div 1), Buckland & Betchworth (Div 2) and Epsom (Div 3) Choral Societies.

Photo albums: Div 3 Div 1 Div 2

Photo albums: Div 1 Div 2 Div 3

The programme included several pieces by our founder conductor, Ralph Vaughan Williams, in honour of the 50th anniversary of his death. These included the English folk song suite, Towards the unknown region, Five mystical songs and Serenade to music. Other works included Haydn's Paukenmesse (Missa in tempore belli), Rutter's Magnificat, conducted by the composer, and Mozart's Mass in C Minor.

All three concerts featured the Leith Hill Festival Choirs and the English Festival Orchestra under the baton of either Festival Conductor Brian Kay or Festival President John Rutter CBE.

Piano accompaniment was provided on all three nights by the Festival Accompanist Alan Brown.

Special guests at the concerts were Renee Stewart, John Rutter and film director Tony Palmer.

Highest aggregate marks:Holmbury St. Mary (Div 1), Beare Green and Newdigate (Div 2) and Leatherhead (Div 3) Choral Societies. For both Beare Green and Newdigate and Leatherhead, 2008 was their first year in a new division.

The programme included Mozart's Requiem, Howard Blake's Song of St. Francis, Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, C.P.E Bach's Magnificat and Purcell's Ode on St. Cecilia's Day.

All three concerts featured the Leith Hill Festival Choirs and either the English Festival Orchestra or Canzona under the baton of the Festival Conductor Brian Kay.

Vocal soloists were Katharine Fuge and Rebecca Hodgetts (soprano), Frances Bourne and Anna Stephany (mezzo-soprano), Timothy Mead (countertenor), Adrian Ward, Daniel Auchinloss and wynne Evans (tenor), Christopher Dixon, Christopher Tonkin and Quentin Hayes (bass). Piano accompaniment was provided on all three nights by the Festival Accompanist Alan Brown.

Special guests at the concerts were the composer Howard Blake, Dame Janet Baker CH, DBE. and Dr. David Betts, Secretary of the RVW Society.

The morning competitions were as always hard fought in all three divisions. The adjudicators were Eileen Field and Jeffrey Wynn Davies (Div 1), Ralph Allwood and Gareth Green (Div 2), Nicholas Keyworth and Betty Roe (Div 3).

Highest aggregate marks:Oxshott (Div 1), Leatherhead (Div 2) and Epsom (Div 3) Choral Societies.