What a Joyful way to close ‘Composer of the Week’ on BBC Radio 3 as we head into the Christmas holiday! JCS features on no less than three of the selected tracks in today’s (22nd December) episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tb15 where presenter Kate Molleson explores Ralph Vaughan Williams’s experiences of Christmas alongside some of his best...

We’ll be performing ‘A Choral Christmas’ at St Gabriel’s, Pimlico, at 7pm on Monday 18th December. Conducted by Peter Broadbent, our programme includes music by: …Renaissance composers Sweelinck, Victoria and Gallus, …19th century German composers Mendelssohn, Bruckner and Reger, …contemporary composers from England and Slovenia. Join in the singing of familiar Christmas carols accompanied...

  We span a century of choral music, from the Requiem Mass written in 1923 by the Italian composer Ildebrando Pizzetti in memory of his wife to Memorial for the Fallen and Lost by John Casken – a work written in 2014 in memory of the men of several villages in Upper Coquetdale in...

We are delighted to share the news that Jonathan Lane, one of our singers and also an accomplished composer of choral works, has won a major prize in the prestigious Orfeó Català Composition Competition – which this year attracted entries from a total of 219 composers from 51 nationalities.   His setting of the...

  In this second blog about our next performance, ‘Boundless’,  our Music Director Peter Broadbent introduces us to these two composers…   Paul Reade (1943-1997) spent the first part of his professional life as a repetiteur. After studying at the Royal Academy of Music he went on to the London Opera Centre and worked...