A Leading
London Chamber Choir
Bringing Music to Life in the City
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 performances 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
We are immensely proud to have been involved with Cecilia's 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 'Stephen Jones and the City Chamber Choir'.
"A contemporary hero of British Choral music" Observer
Samuel Wilson Our Composer in Residence
We are immensely proud to support young composers in the early part of their careers. Samuel studied composition at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Matthew King.
The choir have been working with Samuel for nearly a decade performing and commissioning a number of Samuel's works including, 'Where London Stood', 'Spring', 'Le Cygne', 'The Kings Gloria', 'I hear the bells' and 'Westward Leading' .
We have premièred and
commissioned numerous compositions
Commissioned works:
Cecilia McDowallGood news from New England, commissioned by Geoffrey Smeed (Tenor, City Chamber Choir)
Bob Chilcott | A number of works dedicated to ‘Steve and the City Chamber Choir’
Samuel Wilson | Spring, written for the choir’s 30th anniversary
Samuel Wilson | Where London Stood
David Horne | Pensive (companion piece to Bliss Pastorale) for the choir’s 10th anniversary
Colin Arenstein | Love Songs, choir and guitar quartet Quatro
Premières and recordings:
Peter Wishart | Three carols
William Lloyd Webber |
Stephen Jones | A Wedding Anthem | Silent Night, arr. with two pianos
Percy Grainger | The Bride’s Tragedy
Jonathan Dove | Run Shepherds (Spitalfields Christmas Festival)
Samuel Wilson | Le Cygne
Samuel Wilson | The Kings Gloria
Samuel Wilson | I heard the bells
Katrina Toner | Clouds away
Edgar Bainton | E J Moeran | Arthur Benjamin | Leslie Heward |
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