Campaign to stop closure of YLI Music and Drama Service
A decision has been made to cease running Yorkshire Libraries & Information (YLI) Music and Drama Service, currently operating from Wakefield Libraries Headquarters. Making Music has had previous successes in lobbying to keep other library collections available, and needs your help to oppose the YLI proposal in the strongest possible terms and protect this vital resource for musicians everywhere.
Chiara Alfano Voice: soprano Nationality: Italian/German Occupation: DPhil Student Home: Kings Cross Started singing: when the radio in my mom’s car was stolen. Favourite music: as long as it is good and not country, I am not fussy. Fave composer: Bach and Mozart. Fave singer: Natalie Dessay Fave CML concert: Spirit of Baroque in June 2011. Hobbies: cooking, culture, reading, traveling & skiing.
Collegium Musicum of London - with a regular membership of about 25 singers - is a chamber choir based in Clerkenwell, London. Focusing naturally on a capella repertoire and works accompanied by professional instrumental chamber groups and soloists, the choir's repertoire encompasses sacred music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods as well as music of the nineteenth century and the great secular works of the last 100 years.
For its first concert of 2012, Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir returns to its home in Clerkenwell to create a haven of tranquil harmonies in a short programme of a capella choral favourites.
Take a break from the rush hour with soothing masterpieces like Allegri's famous Miserere, Barber's serene Agnus Dei, Tavener's transcendent Mother of God and Whitacre's gentle Lux Aurumque.
St Stephen's Church in Gloucester Road will be the venue for CML's springtime concert this year, featuring a host of accomplished soloists and intrumentalists alongside the choir. Conductor Russell Du Plessis will lead a performance of Bach's St John Passion on 26 May, as part of the 2012 St Stephen's Festival. It will be CML's first performance of a large scale work by Bach since the Mass in B Minorwas presented by the choir at St James's Church, Piccadilly, in 2008.
Recorded in March 2009 at St Mary Abchurch, London, the CD features music from the Russian sacred repertoire, including pieces by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Chesnokov and Glinka.
The choir is always on the look-out for new members. And for those who feel ambitious, we have opportunities for soloists in all sections.
And there's a special deal for the under 25s - rather than the usual subscription rates, pay just £10 per concert to sing with the choir.
Interested in joining the choir? Click here for details of our straightforward audition process, or email the choir Fixer here.
Choir for hire
Anyone for tenors?
Collegium Musicum of London is also available for hire – either to give a concert as part of a festival, to provide one-off concert programmes, or to sing for functions.
Collegium Musicum of London performing Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal - unaccompanied English choral music from Tallis to Purcell, at St Alfege's church, Greenwich, in October, 2011
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