Our next performance is truly ‘Boundless’ – celebrating sacred and secular choral music spanning over four centuries, on themes of earth and sea and the celestial. Here’s the first of two blogs we’ll be posting to introduce the pieces we’ll be performing… The two great English composers who died exactly 400 years ago, William...

We send our joyful congratulations to all those who made such marvellous music at the Coronation today – including our Vice Presidents Roxanna Panufnik and John Rutter, amongst the contributing composers whose works enriched the ceremony. And if we may, to a JCS baritone appearing in a non-singing role – that’s our very own Coronation...

Our next performance – of two major choral works for unaccompanied choir – commemorates the 150th anniversaries, to within a few days of the actual dates, of the births of composers Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov (1 April 1873 – 28 March 1943) and Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916)....

In our Christmas concert we join choirs on both sides of the Atlantic in over 40 live performances in cathedrals, churches, concert halls and schools of JCS Vice-President Roxanna Panufnik’s choral arrangement of Sleep, Jesus, Sleep, a beautiful traditional Ukrainian carol. This is our way of helping her raise funds for the Refugee Council –...

  The Joyful Company’s Christmas concert on 16 December includes classic seasonal works by Britten and Vaughan Williams as well as two world premières, plus traditional carols for choir, organ and audience. Read on for details of our programmed works… Most of the movements of A Ceremony of Carols were composed by Britten during...