Our Next Concert
Friday 18th October 2024, 7.30pm (Pre-concert talk with Cecilia McDowall 6.45pm)
St Paul's Covent Garden, London WC2E 9ED
Take Flight
Join London Oriana Choir for music devoted to the skies amidst the stunning setting of St Paul’s Covent Garden, including a performance of Cecilia McDowall’s ‘Night Flight’ with award-winning cellist Gabriella Swallow​ and works by Bob Chilcott and Eric Whitacre.
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Future performances
​Saturday 2nd November 2024, 6.30pm
University Church, The High Street, Oxford, OX1 4BJ
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Take Flight
Join London Oriana Choir on their weekend tour to Oxford for music devoted to the skies including a performance of Cecilia McDowall’s ‘Night Flight’ with cellist Gabriel Amherst.
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Sunday 3rd November 2024, 11.30am-12pm
Oxford Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW​
Short informal concert.
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Friday 20th December 2024, 7.30pm
Saturday 21st December 2024, 7.30pm
St James's Church, Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL
Candlelight Carols
Join London Oriana Choir for their critically acclaimed Christmas performances in their festive home of St James’s Piccadilly for a host of choral favourites, and audience carols, including music from Sir David Willcocks, Cecilia McDowall, Errollyn Wallen and Eric Whitacre.
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Saturday 18th January 2025, 1.30pm-7pm
St John's Church Waterloo, London SE1 8TY
Come and Sing Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
Join choir members and soloists to rehearse and perform Purcell's masterpiece, accompanied by Fran Hills (piano) and The Creation Quartet.
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Saturday 22nd March 2025, 7.30pm
Holy Sepulchre London, Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2DQ
JS Bach - B Minor Mass
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Sian Dicker - Soprano​
Mimi Doulton - Soprano
Martha McLorinan - Mezzo-Soprano
Jack Granby - Tenor
Michael Ronan - Bass
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Join London Oriana Choir for a performance of JS Bach's great choral masterpiece. ​​
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Saturday 10th May 2025, 1.15pm
Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer, Exmouth Market, London EC1R 4QE
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Brahms and Bruckner: Motets
Motets standing the test of time and inspiring generations to come with their compositional ingenuity, we celebrate the work of two choral titans - Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner. Join us in the revered acoustic of Exmouth Market’s Our Most Holy Redeemer for a lunchtime concert full of dynamic intensity, precision and passion.
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Friday 4th July 2025, 7.30pm
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 7AY
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Four Corners
Join London Oriana Choir and special guests Will Lang, Niopha Keegan and Maz O'Connor for a journey through folk stories and sounds from all four corners of the Isles.
CD recordings
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**NEW ALBUM - RELEASED MARCH 2024**
Her Voice
Celebrating its 50th Anniversary, London Oriana Choir presents an album of recordings of nine a capella commissions written for the Choir’s ground-breaking five15 initiative promoting women composers, with works by composers-in-residence Cheryl Frances Hoad, Rebecca Dale, Jessica Curry, Anna Disley-Simpson and Hannah Kendall. Grant supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation.
The Lady Oriana
Celebrating the launch of its innovative five15 project to promote women composers, London’s most exciting choir presents a selection of choral masterpieces from across the ages ranging from John Wilbye’s late 16th century madrigal The Lady Oriana in honour of Queen Elizabeth I to O nata lux, a composition by British Composer Award-winning contemporary composer Kerry Andrew.
Classic Quadrophenia
The London Oriana Choir joins the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfie Boe, Billy Idol, Phil Daniels and Pete Townshend in an exciting new orchestration of his classic rock opera by Rachel Fuller and Martin Batchelar, conducted by Robert Ziegler. CD recording, and DVD/Blu-Ray of the world première performance at the Royal Albert Hall in July 2015.
Armstrong Gibbs: Odysseus
The première recording of the choral masterpiece Odysseus by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, by the London Oriana Choir and the BBC Concert Orchestra (2007).
If you like Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony you will love this tuneful and evocative work. Featuring Susan Gritton and Mark Stone as soprano and baritone soloists, the work tells the familiar story of Odysseus's wanderings after the fall of Troy, and his return to Ithaca. The CD also includes Dyson’ Four Songs for Sailors.
Stuff & Nonsense
Three world premiere recordings:
Richard Rodney Bennett: Nonsense Songs
John Gardner: Seven Songs
George MacIlwham: Tam O’Shanter