London Philharmonic Choir Patron HRH Princess Alexandra | President Sir Mark Elder | Artistic Director Neville Creed Accompanist Jonathan Beatty | Chairman Ian Frost | Choir Manager Tessa Bartley
Founded in 1947, the London Philharmonic Choir is widely regarded as one of Britain’s finest choirs, consistently meeting with great critical acclaim. It has performed under leading international conductors for almost 70 years and made numerous recordings for CD, radio and television. Enjoying a close relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Choir frequently joins it for concerts in the UK and abroad. Highlights in recent years have included Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 under the Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor Andrés OrozcoEstrada, Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with Vasily Petrenko, Taneyev’s St John of Damascus and Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater under the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Vladimir Jurowski, and Brahms’s German Requiem with Christoph Eschenbach. This season the Choir looks forward to a packed schedule of choral classics including Haydn’s The Creation, Mozart’s Requiem and Mahler’s epic Symphony No. 8, the latter as part of the Choir’s 70th birthday celebrations in 2017.
Sopranos Chris Banks, Tessa Bartley, Hilary Bates, Nicola Booth, Catherine Boxall, Hannah Boyce, Vicki Brammall, Laura Buntine, Carole Cameron, Charlotte Cantrell, Olivia Carter, Paula Chessell, Alana Clark, Emily Clarke, Eve Commander, Sally Cottam, Antonia Davison, Victoria Denard, Jessica Dixon, Lucy Doig, Rachel Gibbon, Lydia Grant, Jane Hanson, Catherine Harris, Sally Harrison, Carolyn Hayman, Camille Hirons, Jenni Kilvert, Olivia Knibbs, Liz Lawrence, Joy Lee, Clare Lovett, Natallia Maslava, Janey Maxwell, Claire Moody, Harriet Murray, Mariana Nina, Carmel Oliver, Linda Park, Lydia Pearson, Rosie Philpott, Marie Power, Stephanie Rawlins, Dani Reece-Greenhalgh, Rebecca Schendel, Rebecca Sheppard, Sarah Skinner, Victoria Smith, Katie Stuffelbeam, Susan Thomas, Isobel Timms, Rachel Topham, Jo Webster, Charlotte Wielgut, Rochelle Williams Altos Christine Allison, Deirdre Ashton, Phye Bell, Sally Brien, Andrei Caracoti, Noel Chow, Liz Cole, Sara de la Serna, Fiona Duffy-Farrell, Andrea Easey, Henrietta Fisher, Regina Frank, Bethea Hanson-Jones, Emily Hill, Katherine Hodgkinson, Charlotte Kingston, Marissa Landy, Andrea Lane, Ethel Livermore, Laetitia Malan, Ian Maxwell,
The Choir appears annually at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, and performances have included the UK premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s A Relic of Memory and Goldie’s Sine Tempore in the Evolution! Prom. The Choir has been engaged by the BBC for all the Doctor Who Proms and, in recent years, has given performances of works by Beethoven, Elgar, Howells, Liszt, Orff, Vaughan Williams, Verdi and Walton. A well-travelled choir, it has visited numerous European countries and performed in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Perth, Australia. The Choir has appeared twice at the Touquet International Music Masters Festival, performing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Mozart’s Requiem. Last season it travelled to Brussels, performing Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater and Zemlinsky’s Psalm 23, Op. 14. The Choir prides itself on achieving first-class performances from its members, who are volunteers from all walks of life. For more information, including details about how to join, please visit lpc.org.uk
Caroline Morris, Sophie Morrison, Annabeth Murphy-Thomas, Rachel Murray, John Nolan, Sheila Rowland, Carolyn Saunders, Rima Sereikiene, Susi Underwood, Jenny Watson, Emma Windle Tenors David Aldred, Scott Addison, Geir Andreassen, Tim Appleby, Chris Beynon, James Clarke, Kevin Darnell, Robert Geary, Alan Glover, Josh Haley, Iain Handyside, Stephen Hodges, Patrick Hughes, Andrew Mackie, Tony Masters, Luke Phillips, Javier Ruiz, Knut Olav Rygnestad, Keith Saunders, Jaka Škapin, Owen Toller, Claudio Tonini, Tony Wren, Martin Yates Basses Martyn Atkins, Christopher Bacon, Jonathon Bird, Peter Blamire, Gordon Buky-Webster, Filipe Caetano, Geoff Clare, Bill Cumber, Phillip Dangerfield, Marcus Daniels, Ian Frost, Christopher Harvey, Nicholas Hennell-Foley, Mark Hillier, Stephen Hines, David Hodgson, Martin Hudson, Alan Jones, David Kent, John Luff, John G Morris, John D Morris, William Parsons, Johannes Pieters, Jonathan Riley, John Salmon, Edwin Smith, Peter Sollich, Peter Taylor, Alex Thomas, James Torniainen, Hin-Yan Wong, John Wood London Philharmonic Orchestra | 9