Welcome to Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir. With a regular membership of about 35 singers, the ensemble is centrally based in one of the capital’s most elegant Christopher Wren churches, St James Garlickhythe, in the City of London. Focusing naturally on a cappella repertoire, the choir also collaborates with some of the leading professional soloists and instrumentalists in the country. The choir’s repertoire encompasses sacred music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods as well as music of the nineteenth century, the great secular works of the last 100 years, folksong and popular classics.
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‘Collegium Musicum of London…sang with great conviction and clarity.’
– The Guardian, review of St John Passion, Hackney Empire, 8 March, 2020
LATEST NEWS
CML takes flight
This November Collegium Musicum of London revisits Vaughan Williams’s sublime and elegiac tone poem The Lark Ascending, with Brodsky Quartet violinist Ian Belton, in a concert devoted to music inspired by birds. The special arrangement provides Belton with choral accompaniment to his soaring semiquavers, and is the centrepiece of a programme which also includes feathered favourites such as Stamford’s The Blue Bird.
CML on tour
Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir – plus guests – spent an enjoyable weekend in Bristol this August, performing at the magnificent St Mary Radcliffe church. Team-building is an important part of the choir’s ethos.
Romance in Pimlico
CML’s summer concert featured Romantic choral music by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms in a new venue: St Gabriel’s Church in Pimlico.
Stay tuned for details of the choir’s next concert, Bird/Song, in November at Temple Church.
Audience reaction
‘An absolute joy. We enjoyed the programme of Romantic music and the changes of texture with different combinations of voice types and a fantastic soloist.’
CML’s final rehearsal for CML’s Romantics concert: Schubert’s Die Nacht
Donate to CML
You can now donate to your favourite chamber choir by clicking the button below. CML ticket prices are kept low through our members’ subscriptions – and our special low subs rate for the under-25s helps attract younger singers.
In January 2020, CML moved its base to St James Garlickhythe in the City – resulting in a huge increase in rehearsal hire costs.
Please help with a donation – no matter how small.
CML’s latest CD
Recorded in London’s Temple church, the collection includes works by Byrd, Tallis, Victoria, Parsons and Guerrero, as well as organ interludes by Tomkins and Byrd, played by the choir’s MD Greg Morris.
With repertoire taken from Collegium’s highly successful Armada! concert in March 2018, the choir’s CD O Quam Gloriosum is now available. You can buy it at all our concerts, or as a download from iTunes, Spotify or Amazon.
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CML Chamber Choir appears on BBC Radio 3’s Meet My Choir
Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir’s then Chair John Biggins was featured talking about the choir on Radio Three’s The Choir, on Sunday, 19th April.
Click here to listen to what he had to say.
