Patron: Cecilia McDowall
Our Next Concerts
Candlelight Carols
Friday 20th December 2024, 7.30pm
Saturday 21st December 2024, 7.30pm
St James's Church, Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL
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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, Errollyn Wallen and Eric Whitacre.
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Future performances
​​​​​Come and Sing Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
​Saturday 18th January 2025, 1.30pm registration, 6.15-7pm performance
St John's Church Waterloo, London SE1 8TY
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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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JS Bach - B Minor Mass​
Saturday 22nd March 2025, 7.30pm
Holy Sepulchre London, Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2DQ​​
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Sian Dicker - Soprano​
Mimi Doulton - Soprano
Martha McLorinan - Mezzo-Soprano
Jack Granby - Tenor
Michael Ronan - Bass
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Join London Oriana Choir for a performance of JS Bach's great choral masterpiece. ​​
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Brahms and Bruckner: Motets
Saturday 10th May 2025, 1.15pm
Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer, Exmouth Market, London EC1R 4QE
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Motets standing the test of time and inspiring generations to come with their compositional ingenuity, we celebrate the work of two choral titans - Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner. Join us in the revered acoustic of Exmouth Market’s Our Most Holy Redeemer for a lunchtime concert full of dynamic intensity, precision and passion.
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Four Corners​
Friday 4th July 2025, 7.30pm
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 7AY
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Join London Oriana Choir and special guests Will Lang, Niopha Keegan and Maz O'Connor for a journey through folk stories and sounds from all four corners of the Isles.
CD recordings
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**NEW ALBUM - RELEASED 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
