City Chorus is a friendly, hard working choir, open to all with no audition. We rehearse on Tuesday evenings in the city and perform several times a year in beautiful venues.
Our musical director is Paul Ayres and our accompanist (piano and organ) is Philip Shannon. Our concerts feature top professional musicians.
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Centenary Concert at Southwark Cathedral postponed to Friday 17th June 2022
All tickets already purchased for the original April 2021 concert will be valid for the rescheduled concert.
City Chorus celebrates one hundred years of music-making at a special
concert on Friday 17th june 2022 at Southwark Cathedral.
One hundred choral voices, together with professional soloists and orchestra, will perform Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Ave Verum Corpus, and Handel’s anthems My heart is inditing and Zadok the Priest.
Join us to experience beautiful and inspiring music in a stunning setting. Our centenary event will be a celebration as well as a memorable concert. We will commence with festive refreshments when doors open at 6.45 and there will also be refreshments at the interval.
"City Chorus is one of the longest running amateur choirs in London. In 2020 it celebrates one hundred years of continuous music making. Even at the height of the Blitz, after the first shock had passed, a small group of choir members, led by Gerry Darling, continued to meet and sing, and kept the idea of the Choir going. Over its one hundred years, the Choir has faced many hurdles, and undergone many changes of name, but its core identity has remained constant. It is a group of enthusiastic singers who give up their time every Tuesday evening to create something togethre: to sing, listen, work and laugh together. There is something very special and very liberating about submerging your worries, ambitions and desires to a communal project, where the sum is so much bigger than its parts"
Singing the Century: City Chorus at 100 by Georgia Brown