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LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR PATRON: HRH Princess Alexandra PRESIDENT: Sir Roger Norrington ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Neville Creed
Sopranos Lasma Anspoka, Annette Argent, Tessa Bartley, Julia Chaplin, Paula Chessell, Penny Coombes, Sally Cottam, Shelia Cox, Sarah Deane-Cutler, Emily Eason, Sophie Fetocacis, Sarah Fisher, Alison Flood, Claudie Gheno, Rachel Gibbon, Simone Gregoire, Jane Hanson, Emily Harrup, Sally Harrison, Carolyn Hayman, Elizabeth Hicks, Karen Jason, Jocelyn Kelty, Jenni Kilvert, Boon Kim Fam, Olivia Knibbs, Ilona Kratochvilova, Frances Lake, Charlotte Lawrence, Laetitia Livesey, Maria Lundgren, Lorna Maynard, Jo Musgrove, Linda Park, Gen Quierin, Leanne Singh-Levett, Victoria Smith, Rachael Stokes, Susan Thomas, Isobel Timms, Laura Westcott, Fran Wheare Altos Joanna Arnold, Phye Bell, Susannah Bellingham, Michelle Brockbank, Isabelle Cheetham, Noel Chow, Liz Cole, Janik Dale, Megan Dean, Margaret Driver, Moira Duckworth, Andrea Easey, Carmel Edmonds, Regina Frank, Clare Galton, Kathryn Gilfoy, Melissa GimenezCassina, Suzanne Healey, Lucy Hewes, Pamela Hider, Sophy Holland, Erica Howard, Kasia Hunt, Kate Jackson,
Founded in 1947, the London Philharmonic Choir is widely regarded as one of Britain's finest choirs and consistently meets with great critical acclaim. It has been involved in over 80 recordings and has performed under leading international conductors throughout its history. The Choir enjoys a close relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, joining it regularly for performances in the UK and abroad. It also works with many other leading orchestras and has enjoyed sharing the stage with Daleks, dinosaurs and various other creatures in last year's Doctor Who and this year's Evolution! Proms. The Choir often travels overseas and has made several visits to Europe over the last few years, singing in Rome, Lucerne and Cologne. It has travelled as far afield as Kuala Lumpur and Perth, Australia, and, in February 2008, visited Hong Kong, where it gave two concerts at the Hong Kong Arts Festival: a performance of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under Edo de Waart, and a programme of British choral music conducted by the Choir’s Artistic Director, Neville
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ACCOMPANIST: Iain Farrington CHAIRMAN: Mary Moore CHOIR MANAGER: Tessa Bartley
Edith Judd, Alice Kershaw, Alexis Kessler Calice, Andrea Lane, Liz Lewis, Lisa MacDonald, Laetitia Malan, Anna Mignot, Liz Moloney, Mary Moore, Elisabeth Nicol, Angela Pascoe, Helene Richards, Jenny Ryall, Stephanie Saffrey, Carolyn Saunders, Christina Stern, Rachel Taylor, Susi Underwood, Mariken van Dolen, Erika Weingarth Tenors Geir Andreassen, Sam Archer, Chris Beynon, Conway Boezak, John Boyne, Brian Coulstock, Kevin Darnell, Michael Delany, Jack Dixon, Aloysius Fekete, Iain Handyside, Rob Home, Andrew Martin, Rhydian Peters, Kevin Rainey, Paul Thirer, Alex Thomas Basses Jonathon Bird, Derek Bryanton, Gordon BukyWebster, Geoffrey Clare, David Clark, Marcus Daniels, Ian Frost, Paul Gittens, Nigel Grieve, Mark Hillier, Stephen Hines, Rylan Holey, Martin Hudson, Aidan Jones, John Luff, Anthony McDonald, John Morris, Ashley Morrison, William Parsons, Johan Pieters, Daniel Snowman, Peter Sollich, Greg Thomas, Dawid Viljoen, Hin-Yan Wong, John Wood
Creed. Over the New Year, the Choir travelled to Budapest with the London Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Haydn's Die Schöpfung at the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall. Last season's highlights included performances of Beethoven's Missa solemnis and Symphony 9, Dvo˘rák’s Requiem, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Holst's The Planets and Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder. The Choir is delighted to be working again with Kurt Masur this evening and also looks forward to further collaborations with Vladimir Jurowski and Yannick Nézet-Séguin later in the season. In 2007, the Choir celebrated its 60th anniversary and published a book – Hallelujah: An Informal History of the London Philharmonic Choir. The book is available from retail outlets here in Southbank Centre and can be ordered through the Choir's website. The Choir prides itself on achieving first-class performances from its members, who are volunteers from all walks of life. For more information about the Choir, including details about how to join, please visit www.lpc.org.uk.