Vicky Lester joins the JCS and the Brandenburg Sinfonia on 5 April to add the harp’s unique contribution to our performance in St Martin in the Fields. Vicky will feature prominently in Debussy’s Danse Sacreé et Danse Profane, which has become a staple work in the concert harp repertoire as well as a...

The Brandenburg Choral Festival of London welcomes the JCS back to St Martin-in-the-Fields on 5th April for our second performance in the Festival’s 2018 Spring Series. The programme is a feast of sumptuous French music. In the first half we sing two rare chorales by Saint-Saëns along with much-loved Cantique de Jean Racine, and Franck’s famous Panis...

We are delighted to announce that composer Giles Swayne has joined the distinguished list of JCS Vice Presidents! A major force in contemporary music both as composer and teacher, Giles was described by The Times in 1998 as “the most accomplished choral composer in Britain” and after a  première at the Proms in September 1999,...

Allegri’s Miserere – and the most sublime mistake in choral music? In our late-evening concert on 9 February at St Martin-in-the-Fields, the JCS will sing the psalm setting Miserere mei, Deus by Gregorio Allegri – that truly iconic choral work from the late Renaissance. For some time it was reserved for the exclusive use...

JCS presents music for a Penitential season, including joining forces with percussionist Henry Fynn for the World Première of Giles Swayne’s ‘St Sepulchre’s Bell’ – plus the UK Première of Gregory Rose’s ‘Stabat  Mater’ – performed with tubular bells! St Sepulchre is named in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons as the “bells of...