FOLLOWING a hugely successful nationwide tour in 2014 Gareth Malone has announced his second even bigger tour with his choir Voices.

And we can reveal that dates have been included at Portsmouth Guildhall on Sunday, November 29, and at Bournemouth International Centre on Saturday, December 5, next year. Tickets go on sale tomorrow.

The choirmaster and broadcaster, who was a pupil at Bournemouth School for Boys, came to prominence in 2006 when he appeared on TV in the three-part BBC documentary series The Choir.

The series saw Gareth take on the challenge of bringing music into the lives of students who had never sung before and ultimately taking them to compete in the World Choir Games in China.

Following on from the success of series two, The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing, Gareth’s third series The Choir: Unsung Town saw him attempt to unite the community of South Oxhey, near Watford, as a choir.

Gareth’s next project took him to Glyndebourne in a hunt for fresh talent to perform in the new opera Knight Crew, and on to explore how boys are educated in Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School For Boys and building children’s confidence in The Big Performance.

The fourth series of The Choir aired in November 2011. In his most emotional challenge to date, The Choir: Military Wives, saw Gareth give a voice to the wives and girlfriends left behind at the Chivenor and Plymouth barracks when troops were deployed to Afghanistan.

Gareth’s next TV project, Sing While You Work, saw him infiltrate the workplace to get four large UK companies singing as choirs. This first aired on BBC2 in September 2012. Due to its success a second bigger series aired in November 2013.

Early in 2013 Gareth began a UK-wide hunt with Decca Records to find the country’s most talented young singers to form a new youth choir. This culminated in Gareth Malone’s Voices, released on November 18, 2013, his most personal album yet, embodying his vision of the future of choral music. Gareth and Voices then embarked on a 14-date UK tour in May and June this year.

Gareth is currently promoting this year’s Children in Need single with his All Star Choir which has been documented in a BBC1 series.

l Tickets for Gareth’s tour are priced between £25 and £45. Visit gigsandtours.com (0844 811 0051) or ticketmaster.co.uk (0844 826 2826).