CML is looking to recruit SOPRANOS!
Click here for details on how to join this fantastic chamber choir.
Welcome to our chamber choir
Welcome to Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir. With a regular membership of about 35 singers, the ensemble is centrally based in one of the capital’s most elegant Christopher Wren churches, St James Garlickhythe, in the City of London. Focusing naturally on a cappella repertoire, the choir also collaborates with some of the leading professional soloists and instrumentalists in the country. The choir’s repertoire encompasses sacred music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods as well as music of the nineteenth century, the great secular works of the last 100 years, folksong and popular classics.
Are you looking to hire an accomplished vocal ensemble for your party, wedding or event? Click here for more details on how to hire the choir.
Do you want to join a fun, professionally minded chamber choir? CML is presently on the lookout for sopranos and tenors! Click here for more information
‘Collegium Musicum of London…sang with great conviction and clarity.’
– The Guardian, review of St John Passion, Hackney Empire, 8 March, 2020
LATEST NEWS
CML excels in performance of Monteverdi masterpiece
Saturday March 7 saw CML present Monteverdi’s magnificent 1610 Vespers at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square. A packed and appreciative house saw the choir, instrumentalists and fantastic soloists perform this fiendishly challenging work to the very highest standard.
‘Monteverdi is always a treat, and last night was no exception. The acoustics of the church are amazing, and the singing of the choir and the soloists was outstanding, as indeed were the musicians playing period instruments. I very much enjoyed the way the soloists were deployed in various and changing parts of the church to achieve different effects. The entire ensemble sang and played with utter conviction and great feeling and clarity – a wonderful and memorable performance!’
‘This was a wonderful evening. Monteverdi Vespers is such an exciting piece, and the choir, instrumentalists and a group of fantastic soloists gave us a marvellous performance. Holy Trinity Church was a great venue, with opportunities offered to use the different locations for musicians to perform. The staff were helpful and the seats were comfortable. A brilliant concert!’
‘Fabulous performance – choir, soloists and instrumentalists! And a beautiful venue with wonderful acoustics. What’s not to like? An absolutely great evening.’
– audience reaction
Next stop, the choir’s home at St James Garlickhythe in the City of London, for a concert of choral music inspired by springtime.
More details about CML’s springtime concert here.
CML on tour
Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir – plus guests – spent an enjoyable weekend in Bristol this August, performing at the magnificent St Mary Radcliffe church. Team-building is an important part of the choir’s ethos.
Donate to CML
You can now donate to your favourite chamber choir by clicking the button below. CML ticket prices are kept low through our members’ subscriptions – and our special low subs rate for the under-25s helps attract younger singers.
In January 2020, CML moved its base to St James Garlickhythe in the City – resulting in a huge increase in rehearsal hire costs.
Please help with a donation – no matter how small.
CML’s latest CD
Recorded in London’s Temple church, the collection includes works by Byrd, Tallis, Victoria, Parsons and Guerrero, as well as organ interludes by Tomkins and Byrd, played by the choir’s MD Greg Morris.
With repertoire taken from Collegium’s highly successful Armada! concert in March 2018, the choir’s CD O Quam Gloriosum is now available. You can buy it at all our concerts, or as a download from iTunes, Spotify or Amazon.
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CML Chamber Choir appears on BBC Radio 3's Meet My Choir
Back in 2014, Collegium Musicum of London Chamber Choir's then Chair John Biggins was featured talking about the choir on Radio Three's The Choir.
Click here to listen to what he had to say.
