The Joyful Company of Singers invites applications for a singing fellowship for our 2017/18 season from Tenors with good sight-reading ability and experience of singing in chamber choirs and/or small groups. The singer(s) appointed will be expected to commit to an agreed number of projects over the season. The JCS is based in Central...

For our next ‘Come and Sing’ workshop on 23 September, we shall be exploring outstanding examples of German Romantic choral music. The repertoire is vast, but some individual works stand out as having a particular resonance. Brahms wrote many a capella pieces both sacred and secular, but the Fest- und Gedenksprüche (Opus 109) are...

Peter Broadbent writes about programming our next concert: Seascapes is the title of a set of three songs written for JCS by Paul Reade, who died 20 years ago in June 1997. It was written as a companion piece to St Brendan and the Fishes, an evocative and amusing piece he wrote for the...

In our concert on 23 March at St Giles Cripplegate, we continue marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Zoltan Kodály, in a programme that also features a performance of Frank Martin’s choral masterpiece, his Mass for Double Choir. Kodály’s Missa Brevis is a remarkable – if misnamed – work (the term more...