Patron: Cecilia McDowall
Our Next Concert
Saturday 27th April 2024, 7pm
St Nicholas' Church, 67 Church Street, Harwich, CO12 3DR
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50 Years of Song
Special guests: Harwich Sing Tendring Voices
London Oriana Choir pays a special visit to Harwich Town for a programme that brings together the very best of 50 years of concert repertoire. Join us as we celebrate with works ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary writers, including an anniversary commission from choir patron Cecilia McDowall.
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Future performances
Saturday 18th May 2024, 1pm
Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer, 24 Exmouth Market, London EC1R 4QE
Limitless
London Oriana Choir returns to Exmouth Market and the eclectic setting of Our Most Holy Redeemer in Clerkenwell for a programme devoted to the limitless possibilities of choral ensembles. With music stretching genres, centuries and cultures, London Oriana Choir offers a rousing programme of music from Haiti, India, Brazil, France, South Africa and many other countries.
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Friday 24th - Sunday 26th May 2024
Tour to Paris
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Limitless
With music stretching genres, centuries and cultures, London Oriana Choir offers rousing programmes of music from Haiti, India, Brazil, France, South Africa and many other countries.
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Concerts (free entry):
Friday 24th, 20:00 - 20:45: Eglise St Philippe du Roule, 9 Rue de Courcelles, 75008 Paris
Saturday 25th, 17:15 - 1800: Eglise St Louis - en - L'Ile, 19 Rue St Louis-en-L'Ile, 75004 Paris
Sunday 26th, 17:30 - 18:00 (informal pop-up performance): Bandstand in Jardin du Luxembourg, Rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris
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Saturday 22nd June 2024, 2pm - 5.30pm
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Alumni + Choir Choral Workshop with The Gesualdo Six, London
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London Oriana Choir alumni who have not received a mailing from us can find out more about this event by emailing us.
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Thursday 4th July 2024, 7.30pm
Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, London N1 2UN
To the Waters and the Wild
Special guests: The Gesualdo Six
Multi-award winning The Gesualdo Six join London Oriana Choir in their final 50th anniversary celebrations for a concert heralding the future, featuring a collection of bold and beautiful choral
settings including Eric Whitacre's seminal multi-choir work, The Stolen Child, as its centrepiece.
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2024/25 SEASON
Friday 18th October 2024, 7.30pm
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.
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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, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Joanna Forbes l’Estrange, John Rutter 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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Join London Oriana Choir for a performance of JS Bach's great choral masterpiece.
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CD recordings
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**NEW ALBUM - RELEASED 15 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
