BOURNEMOUTH’S TV choirmaster, Gareth Malone, embarks on his Voices UK tour next year, visiting the BIC on December 5.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10am.

Get ready to sing from your seat as Gareth invites you to be part of his live tour.

He has previously topped the album and single charts with the Military Wives and had a Christmas number one hit, as well as receiving an OBE.

His popular BBC shows The Choir and Sing While You Work have seen him take total first-timers to levels of extraordinary success and have led to a nationwide revival in community singing.

This year Gareth was involved in two very different projects commemorating the centenary of World War One.

The Big Performance for CBBC culminated with a performance at St Symphorien and Gareth conducted his first ever Prom with the Military Wives Choir alongside performers from War Horse.

This will be shown in a two-part documentary this month. Gareth is currently promoting this year’s Children in Need single with his All Star Choir which has been documented in a two part series on BBC1.

He moved to Bournemouth with his family from London at the age of 10 and was a member of the orchestra at King’s Park Junior School. He performed in a production of Evita at Bournemouth Pavilion when he was 11 and says his love of choirs began at grammar school.

While living in Bournemouth he joined Gli Amici Della Musica and became a member of Bournemouth Symphony Chorus at 18.

He studied drama at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, where he sang in the choir and composed music for theatre shows.

He went on to postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London and his TV appearances began with The Choir in 2007.

Now 39, Gareth lives with his wife and baby daughter in London and often visits his parents in Bournemouth.

n For more information please call BH Live Tickets on 0844 576 3000, visit bic.co.uk or visit the BIC box office in person.