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Since its establishment in 2003, the Choir of London has come to occupy a unique position in the landscape of British classical music. Composed of professional singers who share an ongoing commitment to charitable work, the Choir brings together some of the UK’s most exciting young soloists and ensemble performers, and has rapidly established a reputation for projects of outstanding musical quality.

In the UK, the Choir performs regularly at major London venues, including the Royal Albert Hall, St John’s, Smith Square, the South Bank Centre, and the Cadogan Hall, whilst recent months have also seen appearances at more unusual spaces such as the British Library and the Imperial War Museum. A first recording − the world première of the “Jerusalem Version” of Sir John Tavener’s Lament for Jerusalem − topped the UK core classical charts for several weeks. (BBC Music Magazine wrote of the disc: “It’s hard to imagine it better performed, or recorded,” Classical CD Review commented, “The performance is perfection,” and the Philadelphia Inquirer commended the choir’s “exceptional purity”.)

In addition to its calendar of regular professional engagements, the Choir and its Orchestra maintain an active programme of education and outreach activity, with a focus on supporting musicians and music-making in particularly difficult environments. Musicians volunteer their time and energies for a variety of special projects which fall outside the usual ambit of professional performance work, with a particular focus on the Middle East. 2007 has seen the most substantial such project to date: a Palestine Mozart Festival, one of the most ambitious collaborative arts projects ever staged in the Occupied Territories.