Our 2018-2019 season will start on 1 September 2018 with our Choral Workshop at Kings College London. All singers are welcome whether or not they belong to the choir. More details can be found here. We will be performing Brahms Requiem on 1 December 2018. Rehearsals start on Wednesday 5 September in the Music Lecture [...]
Our summer programme will comprise works by Charles Villiers Stanford, including his stirring maritime choral work The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet, which sets to music a poem by Tennyson describing the sea battle in 1591 between a warship commanded by Sir Richard Grenville and a vastly larger Spanish fleet. We also hope to [...]
We will be holding our annual Choral Workshop on 1 September 2018 at Kings College London. All singers are welcome - members of the choir, their family members and friends or any other singers who are looking for a friendly day of music making. If you would like to come please complete our form which [...]
At our concert on 9 December, we performed the London premiere of James Francis Brown's choral work, The Heavens and the Heart. We found it a challenging sing, but the choir enjoyed his tunes, rhythms and the liveliness of the piece. Following the concert James wrote to us: Dear members of the Hampstead Chorus, Simon and Heather et [...]
Our 10th anniversary concert took place on 28 April 2018 with a performance of Handel's Messiah under the baton of our musical director, Simon Walton. Our original musical director, John Bradbury was in the audience. Simon's feedback to the choir included these kind words: "I thought you sang magnificently last night. All of the [...]
This event has now taken place. Thanks to all those who came to sing or to hear the concert and to the musicians who contributed their time - with your help we raised over £3,000 for Marie Curie. Simon Walton had the following to say about the day: I heard lots of comments from [...]
BBC Radio 4 is celebrating the wonderful British tradition of choral singing in a series by Roderick Williams (@Sviceridor) - episodes can be found here and are well worth listening to. In his programme on singing for pleasure he says: "It's a story of how ordinary people have used singing to take ownership of our [...]
If you have signed up for the Autumn 2017 term, you should have received links to learning material for The Heavens and the Heart - if you cannot find this link, look in your regular choir emails or ask one of the committee members. The text of this lovely piece is in Latin - [...]
Our singers have a wide range of musical experience. One or two have degrees in music, some others are experienced choral singers. Most, however, have never sung with a choir before and a significant proportion cannot read music. So don’t be put off if you feel you are lacking in musical experience and knowledge or [...]
The rehearsal schedule below was amended on 11 September 2017 - some of the content of the September and November rehearsals was amended. Please make sure you have the latest version. The term's rehearsal schedule is set out below. If you would like to print it out, a downloadable document is included at [...]