Kingston Choral Society has been making music in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey for over fifty years. The Society has its origins in 1948 when the then Mayor of Surbiton gathered local church choirs together to sing Messiah. A nucleus of these singers stayed together and became 'Surbiton Oratorio Society', soon earning a reputation for concerts of a high standard. By 1985, the Society had become more closely involved with the Royal Borough of Kingston and adopted its current name.

The Choir has about 90 - 100 singers and has retained a reputation for quality music making.  The Society gives four concerts a year, covering a wide range of music from Bach to Gershwin, and is not afraid to take on ambitious projects. Over the past few years they have sung works in old Czech, medieval Swedish and Russian. Interspersed with the less known works, the Society enjoys singing the more familiar favourites of the choral repertoire and in recent years has performed Bach's Mass in B minor and Brahms' Requiem to name but two.

Concerts usually take place in All Saints Parish Church Kingston upon Thames or St Andrew's Church in Surbiton. The Society has also given performances at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, and in Guildford Cathedral. In May 1999, for the first time in its history, the Society commissioned a new work. The 'Clocks of Cassiodorus' by Nicholas O'Neill was performed in Kingston Parish Church. In June 2002 the Society gave the first orchestrated London performance of 'Matilda'. a work based on the 'Cautionary Tales' of Hillaire Belloc, music by Antony Le Fleming. In June 2003 the Society gave the first UK performance of the Coronation Cantata by Sibelius. This concert was sponsored by the UK Sibelius Society. Under the auspices of Making Music the Society along with 50 other choirs commissioned a new work from Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. The Kestrel Road was performed in 2005 to celebrate the 70th birthday of the composer.

In May 2007members of the choir visited the USA. They performed a concert of English music in Manhattan, New York and then gave a joint concert with the Fairfield County Chorale in Norwalk, Connecticut.