A Leading London Chamber Choir
The City Chamber Choir in London, established in 1987 by Music Director Stephen Jones, focuses on exploring overlooked choral repertoire.
City Chamber Choir is a highly professional amateur group with a membership of 25–30 singers. The choir has given many performance of little know, but beautiful and impressive music. As a result, the choir has been awarded PRS Choral Enterprise Awards on six occasions.
Proud to support
and be supported by leading British composers
Our President Cecilia McDowall
Cecilia McDowall is our president and we are immensely proud to have been involved with the commissioning of Good news from New England, commissioned by Geoffrey Smeed (Tenor – City Chamber Choir)
Our Patron Bob Chilcott
Bob Chilcott and Steve together. Bob has enjoyed a lifelong association with choral music and has dedicated a number of his compositions to Steve and the City Chamber Choir.
“A contemporary hero of British Choral music” Observer
Sam Wilson Our Young Composer in Residence
Samuel studied composition at Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Matthew King. We are immensely proud to support young composers in the early part of their careers.
The choir have performed and commissioned a number of Sam’s works including London Images and Spring, written for the choir’s 30th anniversary.
We have premiered and commissioned numerous compositions
Commissioned works:
Cecilia McDowall | Good news from New England, commissioned by Geoffrey Smeed
Samuel Wilson | Spring written for the choir’s 30th anniversary
David Horne | Pensive (companion piece to Bliss Pastorale) for the choir’s 10th anniversary
Colin Arenstein | Love Songs choir and guitar quartet ‘Quatro’
Bob Chilcott | A number of works dedicated to ‘Steve and the City Chamber Choir’
Premiére performances and recordings:
Peter Wishart | Three carols
William Lloyd Webber |
Stephen Jones | A Wedding Anthem
Stephen Jones | Silent Night, arr. with two pianos
Percy Grainger | The Bride’s Tragedy
Jonathan Dove | Run Shepherds (Spitalfields Christmas Festival)
Edgar Bainton |
E J Moeran |
Arthur Benjamin |
Leslie Heward |
