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SING WITH US!

We are a friendly group of singers of a wide age range with Baroque music at the heart of a much broader repertoire.
We are currently looking some Altos and Basses to join us for the remainder of our exciting 32nd season which still holds a London concerts and an open singing day and a tour to Sweden in June!

Next season features an orchestral concert featuring works by Pergolesi, Vivaldi & Schutz, Brahms' Requiem in St John Smith Square, Victoria Anniversary concert, workshops and Christmas concerts in central London!

If you are a confident singer with good sight-reading ability we would like to hear from you. Opportunities to sing solos semi-choruses also exist for the most able.

We meet Monday evenings 6.45 – 9.30 pm in central London and rehearsals are purposeful and fun and followed by most of us by a visit to a local pub.

Click on the ‘Sing with us’ – link on the left for more information or simply contact our Membership Secretary Ley Spicer directly on either leyspicer@hotmail.com or on 07981 024509 to arrange an audition.

To listen to sample tracks of us singing, click 'Hear Us' in the left hand column.

ENGLISH BAROQUE CHOIR
 
Over the past 30 years, we have become one of London’s leading amateur choirs, developing a reputation for musicality, imaginative programming and choral enthusiasm. 

Under the baton of Jeremy Jackman our reputation and repertoire continues to grow.  The choir’s spiritual home is with Handel, Bach and Purcell but its repertoire ranges wide, encompassing Britten, Elgar, Tippett, Finzi, Poulenc and Rheinberger.

Our last season included a tour to France, a very successful Singing Day in London, open to all singers, a concert of music by Carissimi, Mozart and Scarlatti, a sell out Christmas concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Sarah Tenant-Flowers, and culminated with a concert at St John’s Smith Square, celebrating the anniversaries of two masters of baroque music, Handel and Haydn.

EBC’s annual programme always includes performances in St. John’s Smith Square and other major London venues. However the EBC is committed to getting good choral singing widely heard both in and beyond London, having toured in France, Germany, Holland and Italy. The choir returned to France in June 2008 and have just returned from a tour to Sweden.

 



President Emma Kirkby
Accompanist Robin Kimber
Vice-Presidents Leon Lovett
Neil Mackie CBE
Carl Rütti
Musical Director Jeremy Jackman
Accompanist Robin Kimber

Forthcoming Concerts
Saturday 13 November 2010
Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road
Magnificat!
Vivaldi:Magnificat, Haydn: Salve Regina, Pergolesi: Magnificat in C

Wednesday 8 December 2010
St Bartholomew the Great, Cloth Fair, Smithfield
Carols for MENCAP

Thursday 9 December 2010
St Bartholomew the Great, Cloth Fair, Smithfield
Carols for MENCAP
Private Carol Concert

Friday 10 December 2010
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Christmas Music for Choir & Brass

Sunday 12 December 2010
Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill
Carols Concert
Free outdoor concert in aid of charity

Friday 14 January 2011
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Haydn: Nelson Mass

Saturday 9 April 2011
St John's, Smith Square
Brahms & Schubert
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem Op.45, Schubert: Four Part Songs

For further information please contact info@ebc.org.uk
English Baroque Choir is registered under the Charities Act 1960
Registered Charity No. 800398