Our next season will start with a performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah on Saturday 6th December 2025 (date to be confirmed). If you want to get ahead, we will be using the Novello edition. Rehearsals will start on 3rd September 2025. All rehearsals will be on Wednesdays other than the week commencing 29th September when the [...]
For our Summer 2025 concert we will be rehearsing the choral arrangement by Donald Fraser of Elgar’s Sea Pictures– a link is provided for those wishing to familiarise themselves with the music (also available on YouTube and Spotify). We will start rehearsals in the Music Lecture Theatre at UCS on Wednesday 23 April 2025 and [...]
BUY TICKETS FOR THE CONCERT AND PARTY FROM TRYBOOKING Our 2023 summer term will commence on Wednesday 26 April 2023 and, after a half term on 31 May, will finish with our traditional end of term summer concert and party on Saturday 24 June 2023. This term we will be rehearsing and performing Johannes Brahms [...]
Our summer term will celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee with a programme of music which has been performed at Coronations. We will learn music from the 16th to 20th centuries, including some of Handel's uplifting Coronation Anthems. Tickets are only available online via this link (order online and then pay by BACS once your order [...]
For our Spring 2022 programme, Simon has chosen some amazing music. We are going to be singing two works by Mozart, the Coronation Mass and Solemn Vespers (Vesperae solennes de confessore) both in the Bärenreiter editions. They are both fantastic sings with some wonderful moments, including the great Laudate Dominum in the Solemn Vespers. The [...]
John Bradbury, who founded Hampstead Chorus as the UCS Centenary Choir in 2008, sadly died on 27 November 2021. Our sing-through of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, a piece we sang with John in 2009, was dedicated to his memory. John Bradbury with Simon Walton at our 10 year anniversary concert in 2018 John was born [...]
Our annual choir workshop is due to be held on Saturday 29th August 2020 in the Great Hall at Kings College London in The Strand. Simon Walton and Heather Tomala will take us through a broad range of music, especially selected by Simon. The choir workshop is open to all - choir members, potential members, [...]
Unfortunately it does not look likely that we will be able to resume rehearsals in the near future so sadly our usual Summer Term of rehearsals will not begin at the start of May. Obviously we will keep you informed if circumstances look like they might change.
This page contains all the information you need for the Autumn term 2019 We started rehearsals for our Autumn 2019 concert (Dvorak - Mass in D and Vaughan Williams - Dona Nobis Pacem) at the start of September. Our rehearsals are held in the Music Lecture Theatre at UCS, Frognal, London NW3 6XH. Our Autumn 2019 [...]
Our summer concert is always a light-hearted affair and is followed by our summer party. This year we will be singing two works by Leonard Bernstein - a choral suite from West Side Story and choral extracts from Wonderful Town. We will be joined by young singers from University College School who will sing parts [...]