See and hear the JCS singing Parry and Brahms at St James’s Church Paddington in June 2016 – link
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Vaughan Williams – Fair Child Of Beauty We are excited to announce the release of our brand new disc which is out on the Albion Label. Edmund Spenser (1552/3–1599) wrote the ode Epithalamion to celebrate his marriage to Elizabeth Boyle on 11 June, 1594, and it was published, along with the related sonnet sequence Amoretti, in 1595....
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Peter Broadbent, conductor and founding director of the Joyful Company of Singers was awarded the Knight’s Cross of Merit of Hungary by President János Áder for promoting and strengthening British-Hungarian cultural relations. Peter Broadbent has been working tirelessly since the late 1970s to perform classical and contemporary Hungarian music to audiences across the UK...
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Elaine Gould, an alto with the Joyful Company of Singers, has been Senior New Music Editor at Faber Music since 1987, in which capacity she has edited the complex and varied scores of many composers, including Jonathan Harvey. Recognised as a leader in the field, and a vital source of wit and common sense in...
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Roxanna Panufnik (born 24 April 1968 in London, UK) is a British composer of Polish heritage. She is the daughter of the composer and conductor Sir Andrzej Panufnik, whose centenary Joyful Company will help celebrate in 2014. Roxanna is currently one of the Vice Presidents of Joyful Company. Since studying composition at the Royal Academy of Music, Roxanna has written a wide range of pieces including...