Founded in 1971, the Camden Choir enjoys an excellent reputation, with high standards and a distinctive repertoire. We are a small friendly choir that performs three concerts a year — usually in Primrose Hill, but further afield on occasions — and we also present a Christmas concert in aid of charity. We aim to combine mainstream works with more unusual and musically challenging pieces by a wide range of composers.
In recent years, we have performed the world première of Richard Blackford's Babel, specially commissioned for our 50th Anniversary debut at the Cadogan Hall, Victoria's Missa Alma Redemptoris, Handel's Judas Maccabeus, Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem (in his piano-duet version), two Glorias (by Vivaldi and Poulenc), George Shearing's Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare, Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb, as well as works by Finzi, Guerrero, Moeran, Tomkins, Tallis and Whitacre. Please visit our past repertoire page for a full list of performed works.
Last season, we performed Puccini's Messa de Gloria and Requiem, Herbert Sumsion's The Holy Birth, Handel's Dixit Dominus, Schubert's Mass in G, Dvořák's Mass in D and his Six Moravian Songs (in Czech!).
A highlight of the choir year is the Choir awayday — a summer get-together, normally held on a Saturday in July — when we explore different styles of music during an informal weekend in the country.