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...

Beyond My Dream: Music for Greek Plays – Joyful Company of Singers’ female voices join mezzo soprano soloist Heather Lowe and Britten Sinfonia conducted by Alan Tongue in this premiere recording of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, written in 1911 for three plays by Euripides: The Bacchae, Electra and Iphigenia in Tauris. Isadora Duncan...

‘Finland @ 100’ is a choral concert being given by the JCS in the heart of the City of London on 30 November 2017, as part of the international programme of events to celebrate the centenary of Finland’s independence. Taking the theme ‘Together’, it will showcase works from Finland, the wider Baltic region and...