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.
Are you looking to hire an accomplished vocal ensemble for your party, wedding or event? Click here for more details on how to hire the choir.
Do you want to join a fun, professionally minded chamber choir? CML is not presently on the lookout for new singers but if you’d like to go on our waiting list, click here.
‘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
Bernstein, Rutter, Britten and Duruflé in West London
This autumn, CML returned to St Stephen’s, Gloucester Road for a concert featuring Leonard Bernstein’s famous Chichester Psalms.
November 23 saw the choir, alongside an illustrious array of instrumentalists, perform the American composer’s spectacular work, alongside choral music by an eclectic roll-call of modern composers, to the delight of an appreciative audience.
‘Everything about this was wonderful. The setting, the programme, the musical arrangements of all kinds, the singing and accompaniments. The whole evening was so enjoyable. The variety of modern and contemporary religious and spiritual music was excellent. The singing was superlative, choir and solos. The harp and organ and percussion were also marvellous I shall look out for other events by Collegium Musicum.’
‘Wonderful evening of choral music, with amazing vocals, arrangements and musicians The Harp sounded beautiful in the acoustics of the church. A lovely way to get in the Xmas spirit.’
– Audience Club reviews
CML celebrates the Sistine Chapel
Saturday July 6 saw Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir perform choral music from the Sistine Chapel in the elegant surroundings of St Peter’s Church in Eaton Square.
And judging by the audience comments below, the performance was enthusiastically received!
‘Lovely relaxing choral music . Just closed my eyes and listened . Good singing in the beautiful setting of the Eaton Square Church.’
‘It was so relaxing, I felt like I had had a massage from my head to my toes. The singing bathed my body and lifted it up.’
‘The choir was sublime and the voices exquisite.’
‘Exquisite singing in a lovely setting.’
‘Probably the best choir I have heard in a long time.’
‘Inspiring, sublime…..great venue and voices, loved it.’
CML rehearses Paolo Agostini’s Peccavimus, impie gessimus O Iesu, cordis mei thesaurus, July 6 2024
CML rehearses Domenico Bartelucci’s O sacrum convivium, June 26 2024
CML spring tour to Berlin
Collegium Musicum of London reprised its England’s Lanes concert at two contrasting venues in Berlin in May: the majestic Marian Church in the city centre and the smaller, more intimate, French church in nearby Potsdam (pictured above.) A fun time was had by all and the German audiences were very appreciative!
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.
