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
CML is not recruiting singers in any voice part at present, and will reopen auditions to join CML in spring 2025. Please get in touch with us in the spring if you would like to join.
LATEST NEWS
Bach’s B Minor Mass
Another packed house for CML on 3 May, for the choir’s stirring performance of Bach’s masterpiece at St James’s, Clerkenwell.
Stylish performances from all four soloists Eloise Irving, Martha McLorinan, Simon Wall and Tristan Hambleton, accompanied by a fine orchestra of Baroque instrumentalists produced a standing ovation at the end of a memorable evening.
On his return to the podium, CML musical director Greg Morris conducted proceedings with an assured hand, bringing the very best out of the choir, in what surely must be one of the ensemble’s most accomplished performances.
Audience reaction
‘Wonderful concert in beautiful Church. A real treat to hear Bach’s B Minor Mass sung so well in this ideal setting. The tenor, Simon Wall, was particularly authoritative, and alto Martha McLorinan’s Agnus Dei was moving.’
‘A truly wonderful evening’
‘ A superb performance by Collegium Musicum of London of one of the most major works of religious music. The singers and orchestra (including period instruments) were tremendous.’
‘A brilliant performance. Thoroughly enjoyed the evening.’
CML’s Valentine’s concert
This February Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir celebrated Valentine’s a day early with a special midweek concert featuring an eclectic collection of love songs spanning six centuries.
Choral music by Lassus, Victoria, Mendelssohn, and Whitacre combined with popular favourites by Gershwin, Leiber and Stoller and Billy Joel in a programme illustrating the agony and ecstasy of romantic love.
CML rehearses Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Nigra sum with conductor Anthony Phillips
CML performs Who Shall Have My Lady Fair by Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795–1856)
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.
