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Welcome to our chamber choir
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
This autumn: Britten and Fauré
This November, Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir commemorates the death in 1976 of Benjamin Britten with an evening of choral masterpieces, where Britten’s vivid, lyrical sound world meets Gabriel Fauré’s timeless, serene beauty.
The programme’s centrepiece is Britten’s exuberant Rejoice in the Lamb – a joyous setting of Christopher Smart’s ebullient verse, full of rhythmic sparkle and colourful invention. Alongside this, his stirring Advance Democracy brings a strikingly different voice: bold, urgent and optimistic, a powerful call for social justice and a better future.
CML gives voice to verse
A sultry World Cup night in west London saw CML perform a varied programme of classic poetry put to music, with works by – among others – C. Hubert Parry, William Harris, Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten and contemporary composer Hannah Conway.
Here’s what Hannah had to say about the choir’s performance of her spectacular setting of William Blake’s Tyger, Tyger:
‘It sounds really fantastic – congrats! I think this is the most polished performance the piece has ever had. Wonderful soloists too… wish we had a recording that was closer mic’d.
‘Great to hear the choir – I’d love to write something new for you if you ever commission new music. Thanks to Greg for requesting the score!
– audience reaction
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.
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
Back in 2014, Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir's then Chair John Biggins was featured talking about the choir on Radio Three's The Choir.
Click here to listen to what he had to say.
