With a grand anniversary celebration slated for this year, it seems only fitting that we know how The Philharmonic Society of Selangor started 60 years ago: On Jan 15 in 1958, 11 musical enthusiasts met in the Card Room of the Selangor Club at 7pm and proposed the formation of The Philharmonic Society. The society then proposed that the eight male members serve on the pro-tem committee and, there being no further nominations, they were duly elected.

The Phil, as it is fondly known, is the oldest music society in Malaysia, with the choir, started in the early 1990s as a regular activity of the society, being its most active arm.