Experience Carefully Curated Choral Concerts
Revel in the Joy of Music
Step into the shimmering warmth of a concert that glows with festive joy and timeless beauty.
Stephen Jones | Conductor
Richard Pinel | Organ
£17 Early Bird | £20 Adult | £10 Student | Under-12s free
Illuminare!
The radiant light of a choral Christmas
7:30pm Tuesday
16 December 2025
From the radiant chime of Csányi-Wills’ Christmas Bells to the serene hush of Still, Still, Still and the luminous splendour of Judith Weir’s Illuminare, Jerusalem, this programme sparkles with musical treasures old and new.
Journey through centuries of Christmas wonder — from the rich harmonies of Lassus and Pearsall to the tender mystery of McDowall’s The Magi.
Balulalow | Peter Warlock
Christmas Bells | Michael Csányi-Wills
Christmas Day 1666 | Bob Chilcott
Da pacem Domine | Melchior Franck
Illuminare, Jerusalem | Judith Weir
In dulci jubilo | Robert Lucas Pearsall
Ivy, Chief of Trees | Sarah Cattley
Maria durch ein Dornwald ging | arr. Stefan Claas
No Small Wonder | Paul Edwards
Omnes de Saba venient | Orlande de Lassus
Peace on Earth | Errollyn Wallen
Still, Still, Still | arr. Andrew Gant
The Holly and the Ivy | Matthew Owens
The Magi | Cecilia McDowall
With moments of reflection, joy, and radiant choral beauty, this is a celebration of Christmas in all its shining glory.
St Mary's Bourne Street
London SW1W 8JJ
2025-2026 Save the Dates!
Tuesday
7 July 2026
Summer Celebration
St Vedast-
alias-Foster
April 2026
Evensong
Charterhouse
Tuesday
24 March 2026
Five
Seasons
Gresham Centre
Saturday
24 Jan 2026
Come & Sing Workshop
St Mary-at-Hill
Tuesday
16 Dec 2025
Christmas Concert
St Mary's
Bourne Street
Thursday
6 Nov 2025
Laudes Organi
St Mary's
Bourne Street
Recent Events
The City Chamber Choir’s Autumn Concert is an exhilarating program of choir and organ music from 19th and 20th century Europe, showcasing St Mary’s Bourne Street’s magnificent organ crafted by Henry Willis & Sons in 1928.
Kodály’s Laudes Organi celebrates a virtuosic union of pipes and voices in his brilliant swansong. The ‘19th century’s Palestrina’, Rheinberger’s magnificent Mass in E flat is rich in harmony and melody whilst Arvo Pärt’s The Beatitudes is an enchanting blend of sound and silence. Recognized as a masterwork, Leighton’s solo organ Passacaglia leads us to the conclusion of the program with Britten’s beloved gem, Rejoice in the Lamb.
This concert showcases the leading composer of the early-Stuart period at the 400th anniversary of his death, along with works by his contemporaries, and present-day composers he has inspired.
Gibbons’ rich, polyphonic style led him to be dubbed the ‘English Palestrina’ before England’s descent into Civil War and Puritanism.
City Chamber Choir, led by conductor Stephen Jones, will perform with period instrument group Orlando Camerata, playing Baroque viols.
Interval drinks will be served in the beautiful secluded courtyard of St Vedast, Foster Lane.
Jacobean Genius
Orlando Gibbons and his legacy
7pm 8 July 2025
St Vedast-alias-Foster
London EC2V 6HH
Tickets on the door | £20
Early Bird until 24-June-25 | £17
Student | £10
Under-12s free
Evensong at The Charterhouse
5:30pm | 29 April 2025
Evensong is enjoying a renaissance as a showcase of choral tradition and the new music of today.
City Chamber Choir’s Evensong at Charterhouse will feature the exceptional music of two female British composers – our President Cecilia McDowall and Ruth Gipps. Alongside these will be Orlando Gibbons’ (‘The English Palestrina’) invigorating anthem ‘O Clap your hands’ and Percy Whitlock’s ethereal ‘Be Still, my Soul’.
The Charterhouse
Charterhouse Square
Barbican
London EC1M 6AN
From Darkness to Light
Inspirational choral music from Finzi to Howells
7:30pm Tuesday 1 April 2025
Holy Sepulchre London EC1A 2DQ
An evening of glorious music awaits you in the majestic setting of the Musicians’ Church, and includes a not to be missed, rarely performed An English Mass by Herbert Howells.
Finzi | Requiem da Camera
Howells | An English Mass
Bob Chilcott | My Prayer
Farrar | Margaritae Sorori
Rota | Sonata per orchestra da camera
The bonds of friendship entwine our programme. Gerald Finzi’s beautiful and intimate Requiem da Camera was written in memory of his esteemed teacher Ernest Farrar, killed in the final days of the First World War, and Farrar’s moving and lyrical partsong Margaritae Sorori which follows is a fitting valediction.
Howells wrote his turbulent An English Mass, a work full of agony and ecstasy, for Harold Darke (organist of St Michael’s, Cornhill 1916-1966) and his St Michael’s Singers. Chilcott’s passionate ‘My prayer’ and Nino Rota’s characterful Sonata per orchestra da camera, at turns elegiac, heroic, pastoral and spritely, complete our programme.
Sponsored by The Finzi Trust, with thanks.
Tickets on the door | £25
Early Bird until 10-March-25 | £22
Student | £10
Under-12s free
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