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Welcome to the home of the English Chamber Choir – one of London’s leading and busiest vocal ensembles.  

 

For the past 50 years we’ve been at the forefront of musical life in the capital, and for almost all of that time we were led by our music director Guy Protheroe.  Guy has recently stepped back to become Conductor Emeritus, and we are now led by our new artistic director, Rufus Frowde. 

 

We take great pride in our versatility, the variety of our repertoire, and our professionalism. But, most of all, we’re proud of our sociability and the sheer delight we get from singing together. We are passionate about singing all types of music, from renaissance to rock, polyphony to pop, and classical to cabaret. 

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Since our foundation we’ve performed at all the major London venues.  We’ve also sung by invitation for the Lord Mayor of London at the Mansion House and for HM Queen Elizabeth II at both Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.  Other highlights include The Royal Albert Hall (Harry Potter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Gladiator), the Royal Festival Hall, the London Palladium, the Barnes Festival, Temple Church, the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St Sophia, Holy Trinity Sloane Square, St Mary's Twickenham, the Church of the Holy Cross Ramsbury, Evensong at the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace and many concerts at St Martin in the Fields with the Belmont Ensemble of London.

 

Our repertoire covers all aspects of the classical and baroque choral works, including the Bach Passions and B Minor Mass, Haydn Masses and the Creation, Handel’s Coronation Anthems, Messiah, and Dixit Dominus, as well as the requiems of Mozart, Fauré and Verdi.  Our a cappella repertoire is extremely wide, from early polyphony to modern cabaret. We’ve also worked closely with a number of organisations, such as the William Tyndale Society, to create concerts around themes.  In addition, we have a long association with contemporary music written both for and in the Byzantine and Eastern traditions.

We have commissioned several new pieces over the years and given first performances of many more.  Most recently, these include the Troparian of Kassiani by the Greek/Canadian composer Christos Hatzis, and When Augustus Reigned by our late patron, Ivan Moody.

We appear on a number of commercial albums, most notably those of Vangelis.  We are also credited on Ridley Scott’s 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Steve Spielberg’s Band of Brothers, and Eric Levi’s Era.  We performed Tommy with The Who and have a long association with Rick Wakeman having performed the original Journey to the Centre of the Earth with the LSO at the Royal Festival Hall in the 1970s and its revival and tour in 2014.  We have also appeared in numerous 'live in concert' film screenings in recent years, notably the Harry Potter series at The Royal Albert Hall.

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Here you can find out more about us, including where you can next hear us perform, who we are, how to apply to sing with us, or even book us to sing for you.