We are delighted to welcome Cecilia McDowall as a new Vice President of the Joyful Company of Singers. Born in London, 1951, Cecilia McDowall has won many awards, been short-listed eight times for the British Composer Awards and in 2014 won the Choral category of the British Composer Awards for her haunting work, ‘Night...

We are delighted to welcome Olivia Tait as our latest Junior Conducting Fellow, following in the footsteps of four other young conductors who have been supported by the JCS:  Christopher Hann, Helen Smee, Patrick Barrett and Louisa Denby. Olivia will be conducting us in Cecilia McDowall’s Deus, qui claro lumine when we perform at St Gabriel’s...

  Lennox Berkeley’s Mass for 5 Voices is the centrepiece in our next concert, featuring sacred choral music from the 20th and 21st centuries by British composers (Alexander Campkin, Cecilia McDowall and John Rutter, as well as Lennox Berkeley) and by those two titans of German/Austrian Romantic music, Brahms and Bruckner. The programme also includes piano...

Join us as we go ‘Over Hill, Over Dale’ – in song, at least! One of the ‘Three Shakespeare Songs’ set by Ralph Vaughan Williams, recorded by us for our ‘Sing Joyfully’ CD.

Our first live performance together for sooo long! Peter Broadbent, our Music Director, writes: In our first concert for 20 months we want to celebrate some of the many different facets of the Joyful Company, so we feature music both Sacred and Secular from many countries, but all spiritual. Familiar motets by William Byrd,...