City Chamber Choir

01/07/2026

01/07/2026

Looking for a musical escape from the summer heat?

Cool Rhythms for a Hot Summer Evening
Join City Chamber Choir at the beautiful St Vedast - alias - Foster Church for an evening of jazz-infused choral music, sparkling harmonies and laid-back swing.

7pm Tuesday 7th July 2026
St Vedast, Foster Lane, London
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Rutter | Birthday Madrigals
Chilcott | Little Jazz Madrigals
Williams | Laura
Williams | Love Bade Me Welcome
Fats Waller | Ain’t misbehavin’
Chilcott | The Making of the Drum
Take 6 | Let the Words of My Mouth

Refreshments will be served in the shady courtyard at St Vedast.

So leave the heat outside, settle into the cool of St Vedast, and enjoy an evening of jazz-inspired madrigals, spirituals and choral summer sounds in one of the City's most atmospheric churches.

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29/06/2026

30/04/2026

A gala concert of Cecilia McDowall’s music to celebrate her birthday!

Four choirs brought together by their love, partnership and patronage of one the world’s most celebrated contemporary composers, this very special concert will celebrate the breadth and brilliance of Cecilia McDowall in her 75th birthday year. With performances of commissions, a unique collaboration between the choirs and rare chances to hear hidden gems from McDowall’s choral world, this performance promises to enrich and enlighten.

City Chamber Choir will perform McDowall’s Good News from New England, commissioned by our alumnus Geoffrey Smeed, and first performed by the choir on 12 July 2022.

Step into a story of courage, loss and celebration in this vivid, cinematic choral work with soaring solo violin. Inspired by the real-life chronicles of the Mayflower Pilgrims, it traces a perilous ocean voyage, a haunting personal tragedy, and a final outpouring of joy in a radiant Thanksgiving. This gripping three-part journey even invites you to join in the closing hymn—just as it was sung on the Mayflower itself—making this not just a performance, but a shared musical experience.

7.30pm Saturday 9th May 2026,
Holy Trinity Sloane Square,
Sloane Street, London SW1X 9BZ

Tickets available from:
www.londonoriana.com

23/03/2026

Come to our amazing 'Five Seasons' Concert TOMORROW!
TUBE STRIKE CANCELLED!

McDowall | Five Seasons
Radiohead | Pyramid Song
Whitacre | Five Hebrew Love Songs
Gjeilo | The Rose
Roth | Dawn Chorus
Gjeilo | Dark & Luminous Night

From the awakening light of Roth’s Dawn Chorus, alive with the vibrant stir of birdsong, this programme moves through the mysteries and universal patterns of everyday life. At the heart of the programme lies Cecilia McDowall’s Five Seasons, a highly original and wonderfully evocative hymn to the rural British landscape and our farmers, whose unceasing labour feeds us and cares for the health and beauty of our Isles.

Gjeilo’s Dark and Luminous Night depicts the wonders of night, while Radiohead’s magical Pyramid Song reflects on death, rebirth, and the cyclical nature of existence. Gjeilo’s rich setting of Rossetti’s The Rose captures the poem’s bittersweet tone, while Whitacre’s Five Hebrew Love Songs captures treasured moments shared with his wife.

Stephen Jones | conductor
Modulus quartet
Tomos Xerri | harp
Rachel Broadbent | oboe
Tom Jesty | piano

£20 Adult
£10 Student

St Annes and St Agnes Church, Gresham Street, London EC2V 7BX - St Paul's Tube Station
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23/03/2026

06/02/2026

Looking for superb tenors & second basses!

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07/01/2026

Warm up your winter by singing Dowland, Weelkes, Schütz and Purcell with us!

10am | Saturday, 24 January 2026
St Mary-at-Hill | Lovat Lane entrance | London EC3R 8EE

Stephen Jones | Music Director
Thomas Dilley | Accompanist
Hosted by City Chamber Choir

Inspired by John Dowland’s famous motto—always grieving—explore the richly textured soundscape that captivated Jacobean audiences at our “Semper Dowland, Semper dolens” workshop day.

Alongside Dowland’s iconic laments, including his celebrated Flow My Tears, we’ll explore a programme of works by Dowland, Weelkes, Schütz and Purcell that also offers moments of brightness and wit.

Whether you are drawn to the quiet intensity of Dowland’s sorrow or the vivid and lively pair of Weelkes’ madrigals, Thule and The Andalusian Merchant, join us for a day of expressive storytelling through song—early music at its most evocative.

The workshop will provide the opportunity to sing the best of Renaissance music (Dowland, Weelkes, Schutz and Purcell) and to hear our Music Director Stephen Jones’ insightful knowledge of this musical genre.

John Dowland (1563-1626)
Flow My Tears
Thou mighty God
Go, Crystal Tears
Come Again, Sweet Love

Thomas Weelkes (c1576-1623)
Thule, the period of cosmography
The Andalusian merchant
Death hath deprived me
Noel adieu, thou court's delight

Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
Die Himmel erzählen de Ehre Gottes

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Let mine eyes run down with tears

We are excited to announce that, thanks to The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, we are able to provide funded free places for 18-30s, young or semi-professional singers to join our workshop. If you know of budding early music singers who would like this experience building opportunity, please forward this to them.

Thanks to The DCT we are also able to offer ‘pay what you can’ policy. The recommended cost, if you are able, is £40 for the day. Electronic copies of the music are free and will be emailed before the day. You can order a printed copy for £5 to pick up on the day.

The timetable for the day is as follows:
10:00 Registration, coffee and music distribution
10:30 Workshop Session 1
12:30 Lunch BYO (there is a Tesco express, Pret, Joe & the Juice nearby)
13:30 Workshop Session 2
15:30 Tea & cake provided
16:30 Informal sing-through - Friends welcome!

St Mary-at-Hill
Lovat Lane Entrance
London EC3R 8EE
Nearest Tube = Monument/Bank

If there are any additional questions, please email [email protected]

16/11/2025

Illuminare! The radiant light of a choral Christmas
7:30pm Tuesday 16 December 2025
St Mary’s Bourne Street SW1W 8JJ | Sloane Square Tube

£17 Early Bird | £20 Adult | £10 Student | Under-12s free​
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Step into the shimmering warmth with a concert that glows with festive joy and timeless beauty.

From the radiant chime of Csányi-Wills’ Christmas Bells to the serene hush of Still, Still, Still and the luminous splendour of Judith Weir’s Illuminare, Jerusalem, this programme sparkles with musical treasures old and new. Journey through centuries of Christmas wonder — from Lassus and Pearsall to the tender mystery of McDowall’s The Magi.

Balulalow | Peter Warlock
Christmas Bells | Michael Csányi-Wills
Christmas Day 1666 | Bob Chilcott
Da pacem Domine | Melchior Franck
Illuminare, Jerusalem | Judith Weir
In dulci jubilo | Robert Lucas Pearsall
Ivy, Chief of Trees | Sarah Cattley
Maria durch ein Dornwald ging | arr. Stefan Claas
No Small Wonder | Paul Edwards
Omnes de Saba venient | Orlande de Lassus
Peace on Earth | Errollyn Wallen
Still, Still, Still | arr. Andrew Gant
The Holly and the Ivy | Matthew Owens
The Magi | Cecilia McDowall

Alongside favourite carols for all to join in and seasonal readings, it’s a celebration of Christmas in all its shining, choral glory.

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£17 Early Bird | £20 Adult | £10 Student | Under-12s free​

7:30pm Tuesday 16 December 2025
St Mary’s Bourne Street SW1W 8JJ | Sloane Square Tube