Our ‘Come and Sing’ workshop on 25th January features two contemporary composers whose works reward as well as challenge singers! Jonathan Dove has a distinctive voice in contemporary music, and his writing for choral forces is charged with intensity and beauty. Composed in 2000 in memory of the composer’s mother, The Passing of the...

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Our North American followers will associate ‘Fall’ with Autumn, and our next concert – ‘Fallen’-  takes the seasonal imagery of falling leaves and looks at the works of three composers addressing the themes of the ending of the year, falling in love and Remembrance of the Departed. When the JCS commissioned the rising star...

The JCS joins the 2019 St Marylebone Festival in a celebration on 23 July of the works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Our contribution includes singing his Mass in G minor, which he set for unaccompanied double choir and soloists. Of this work, composed in 1921, Barry Creasy has written ‘… Its musical link with...

JCS is delighted to be joined by distinguished pianists Nigel Clayton and Imma Setiadi on 20 June – our evening of Romantic music includes masterpieces requiring piano for four hands by Brahms – his Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52 – and by Schubert – the Fantasia in f minor for piano duet, D940, Op. 103....