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Finchley Children's Music Group, London's youth choir for ages 4 to 18. 'graceful, refined, spontaneous & impeccably prepared.. truly impressed' - Gramophone

Finchley Children's Music Group, founded in 1958, is London's leading children's choir with over 150 singers aged between 4 and 18 across four choirs. Children from Reception to Year 13 are welcome. Rehearsals take place at a primary school in North West London on Sunday afternoons. There are four main choirs: Beginners (Reception to Year 2), Intermediates (Year 3 +) Senior and Chamber Choirs. For

more information on rehearsals and previous concerts please contact us using the email address below or check out out website www.fcmg.co.uk

08/06/2026

Behind every major concert lies weeks (or more) of rehearsals, a process involving exploration, interpretation - and a lot of fun too! These photographs by Phil Rowland offer a wonderful behind-the-scenes glimpse as FCMG singers prepared for a celebration of the music of Villa-Lobos at LSO St Luke's last month with pianist Marcelo Bratke and soprano Camila Provenzalle.

13/05/2026

A wonderful article here in Gramophone magazine written by friend of Finchley Children's Music Group, Martin Cullingford, about Brazilian composer Villa-Lobos.

Looking forward to bringing his pieces for children's choir to life this Saturday 16 May at LSO St Luke's.

11/05/2026

After several weeks of exploring Villa-Lobos's wonderful music - and learning to sing in Portuguese! - our singers were hugely excited to have their first rehearsal with pianist Marcelo Bratke yesterday. Less than a week now until the multimedia celebration (featuring soprano Camila Provenzalle and video by artist Mariannita Luzzati) of Villa-Lobos and the inspiration of childhood and nature on his music - LSO St Luke's, Saturday May 16, 7.30pm. Details: https://www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/the-villa-lobos-event/

21/04/2026

Next up for the Senior & Chamber choir members of Finchley Children's Music Group - a multimedia concert celebrating Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos with acclaimed pianist Marcelo Bratke.

Performed in Portuguese for the first time outside Brazil ( and a first for FCMG too) the concert will be conducted by our wonderful Artistic Director Grace Rossiter - come and join us!

14/04/2026

Winners! Huge congratulations to members of Finchley Children's Music Group's Senior Choir who sang in English National Opera's Olivier Award winning production of Dead Man Walking.

Announced on Sunday 12 April, Dead Man Walking took home the Olivier for Best New Opera Production - massive congratulations to all who took part, we're thrilled to have given more of our young singers an experience they will never forget.

Bravo!

Olivier Awards
London Coliseum
Opera

24/03/2026

A glorious evening of music-making at St Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill: music from Purcell and Vivaldi, to Gershwin and Finzi, performed by our Chamber, Tenor & Bass, and Senior choirs, plus solo voices, clarinet and organ. Congratulations to all our amazing musicians!

18/03/2026

It's end of term concert time!
Our Senior & Chamber choirs are performing at St Mary's Church, Primrose Hill this Sunday 22 March at 5.00pm - come and join us for a wonderful concert featuring music by Mendelssohn, Bach, Purcell, Gershwin, Vaughan Williams and much more.

Tickets £7 on the door, children & students are FREE

08/03/2026

We're thrilled that Dead Man Walking at English National Opera has been nominated for Best New Opera Production at the 2026 Olivier Awards – our singers hugely enjoyed being part of this powerful work, and we’ll be keeping our fingers crossed on April 12th when the winners are announced at the Royal Albert Hall!

The production of Jake Heggie’s opera, directed by Annilese Miskimmon and conducted by Kerem Hasan, was highly acclaimed, receiving 5 star reviews from The Telegraph ('a triumph'), The Times ('contemporary opera at its very best'), The Guardian, FT, Bachtrack, The Arts Desk, The Express and Opera Now ('a complete masterpiece').

(Photography: ENO / Manuel Harlan)

11/02/2026

Hear FCMG on BBC Radio 3! The station will tomorrow (February 12) broadcast the UK premiere of unEarth, Julia Wolfe’s powerful oratorio about the climate crisis, featuring our wonderful Senior Choir. The performance was recorded at the Barbican Centre on January 23, with Martyn Brabbins conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and soprano Else Torp. Listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qr1c (📷Mark Allan)

24/01/2026

Huge congratulations to our Senior Choir, who performed in the UK premiere of unEarth, Julia Wolfe’s powerful oratorio about the climate crisis, along with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, conductor Martyn Brabbins and soprano Else Torp, at the Barbican Centre. Look out for the broadcast on BBC Radio 3! (📷Mark Allan)

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Finchley
North London
N103RD

Website

http://www.fcmg.org.uk/

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