Information for members
Dates for your diary:
Our regular Tuesday rehearsals are at 19.45
in St Michaels Church, Elmwood Road W4Spring term started on Tuesday 6th January 2026
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Saturday 21st March 2026 at 19.30
Spring Concert at St Michaels and All Angels, Bedford Park W4
‘Hear my Prayer’A selection of sacred pieces for choir and soloists with organ accompaniment.
Some of this repertoire will also be performed on our tour of Spain in April.
Evening Hymn – Henry Balfour Gardiner
Verleih uns Frieden – Felix Mendelssohn
O Taste and See – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ave Verum – Colin Mawby
Ave Maris Stella – Franz Liszt
And I Saw a New Heaven – Edgar Bainton
Geistliches Lied – Johannes Brahms
Like as the Hart – Herbert Howells
Hear My Prayer – Mendelssohn
..and other solo piecesPractice materials for this concert.
YouTube Playlist
Spotify playlistLooking ahead, here are some practice materials for Handel’s Dixit Dominus
coming up in our 50th Anniversary Concert in July.8th/12th April 2026 – Tour of Spain
Salamanca cathedral
This is an all in trip to the Castile y Leon region of Spain, north west of Madrid, to sing in two glorious and ancient cathedrals in Salamanca and Valladolid, with some time for tourism in a region historically and gastronomically rich and a treasure house of palaces and castles.
The package includes flights from London to Madrid and return, with coach transfers to and from the hotel and Valladolid, with a full-time bi-lingual courier. We’ll stay for four nights in central Salamanca, a UNESCO World Heritage city, in the well-reviewed ABBA Fonseca hotel, which is ten minutes’ walk from the cathedral.
The company arranging our trip, Specialised Travel Ltd, has a long track record of choral and orchestral trips and will ensure that our performances are well advertised locally, with high levels of audience attendance to be expected. Hilary will lead us with a repertoire selected from our the Spring 2026 concert ‘Hear my Prayer’.
More details of proposed itinerary
NB There will be a rehearsal for this event on
Tuesday 24th March 2026 – 7:45pm – usual place!Saturday 16th May 2026 from 12.00
‘Come and Sing’ at St Michaels Elmwood Road W4 at 12 noon
Mozart ‘Coronation Mass’
Come along with your friends to sing this popular and accessible work.
Completed in 1779, this Coronation Mass was frequently played at Austrian coronations, from which it got its name.This event will run from 12 to 6pm – including an open house sing-through at 5:15pm.
There will also be an optional social gathering from 6 to 8pm to which everyone is welcome.
Sunday 12th July 2026 at 18.00
Special Summer Concert at the Cadogan Hall, Sloane Square SW1
‘Celebrating Fifty Years’** Please tell everyone you know about this unique event! **
The Cadogan Hall
To celebrate the choir’s 50th Anniversary, we are honoured to be performing this special concert in London’s magnificent Cadogan Hall and accompanied by the London Mozart Players. The centrepiece of the concert will be one of Handel’s finest and most challenging choral works, his Dixit Dominus.
Nisi Dominus – George Frideric Handel
Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G – JS Bach
Alma Dei Creratoris – Mozart
Dixit Dominus – George Frideric Handel
Download poster here
Practice materials for these works
Book your tickets here for this special event.
Some further dates for your diary!
** Watch out for extra events and details being added. **24th March 2026 – Rehearsal for Spain tour
8th to 12th April 2026 – Performing Tour of Spain
NB Repertoire will be from our ‘Hear my Prayer’ concert.14th April 2026 – Summer Term starts
16th May 2026 – Come & Sing – Mozart Coronation Mass
22nd June 2026 – Rehearsal for Derby Cathedral trip in July
Sunday 12th July 2026 – 50th Anniversary Concert at Cadogan Hall at 18.00
Nisi Dominus and Dixit Dominus by Handel and Alma Dei Creratoris by Mozart14/15th July 2026 – Rehearsals for Derby Cathedral
18/19th July 2026 – Guest choir at Derby Cathedral.8th September 2026 – Autumn term starts
Sectionals – Monday 28th Sept (S&A) and Tuesday 29th Sept (T&B)5th December 2026 – Winter Concert – Seasonal works by Chilcott and McDowall
14th December 2026 – WLC Chorale Christmas Concert – rep and venue tbc
15th December 2026 – WLC 50th Christmas Party
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5th January 2027 – Spring term starts
20th March 2027 – Spring Concert – Schubert Mass in G and Rheinberger Mass in C
13th April 2027 – Summer term starts
15th May 2027 – Come & Sing – rep tbc
10th July 2027 – Summer Concert – Purcell Dido & Aeneas
17/18th July 2027 – Guest choir at Ely Cathedral
7th September 2027 – Autumn term starts
4th December 2027 – Winter Concert – rep tbc
December 2027 date tbc – WLC Chorale Christmas Concert – rep tbc
December 2027 date tbc – WLC Christmas Party
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Recent Events for Members
[Go to the Top Menu for details of our Recent Concerts]
19.00 Monday 15th December 2025
Chorale Christmas Concert at St Nicholas Church W4.
‘I Sing of a Maiden’ – including…A Maiden Most Gentle – Andrew Carter
Mary’s Lullaby – John Rutter
Myn Lyking – Richard Terry
Ave Verum Corpus – Mary Offer
I sing of a Maiden – Patrick Hadley
Hath the Inn No Room? – Hilary Campbell
Bogoroditse Devo – Sergei Rachmaninov
Angelus ad virginem – arr David Willcocks
Silent Night – arr John Rutter
..with extra solos from our Scholars
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19.30 Saturday 6th December 2025
Winter Concert at St Michaels and All Angels, Bedford Park W4
Mozart and Haydn
Haydn – Missa in angustiis
(‘Mass for troubled times’ – aka ‘Nelson Mass’)
Mozart – Missa Brevis in C Spatzenmesse (‘Sparrow Mass’)These were two contrasting masses, with Mozart’s light and almost humorous ‘Sparrow Mass’, written when he was comparatively young, and Haydn’s ‘Mass in Troubled Times’ written at the peak of his career.
‘..a very ambitious programme beautifully conducted and executed..’
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Saturday 20th September 2025 at St Michaels Elmwood Road
‘Come and Sing – Handel’s Dixit Dominus’
This afternoon workshop was a great chance for members and guests from other choirs to explore this challenging work with Hilary and Maria. It was also useful preparation for our planned performance of it in our special 50th Anniversary Concert at the Cadogan Hall in July 2026!
‘Well organised and enjoyable!’
‘I wasn’t expecting to love the music!’
‘I’ve learnt far more than I had even hoped!’
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Weekend of 19/20th July 2025 – Guest choir at Southwark Cathedral
This weekend was another opportunity for us to sing in a great historic cathedral in support of their weekend services.Here is a link to the live stream of our Choral Eucharist service at Southwark.
The service starts at about 4’30” and we start singing the Gloria at 9’44”.
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21st/22nd September 2024
Getaway weekend at Churchill College Cambridge
Choir members at Churchill College Cambridge
This two-day event for members and friends was to sing and socialise! While we worked on an informal repertoire chosen by Hilary to widen our choral scope and develop our technique, we also savoured the collegiate atmosphere. Comfortable ensuite rooms and all meals were provided, together with a relaxing dinner and quiz night – and a convenient on-site bar!
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13th/14th April 2024 – Guest choir at York Minster
We were honoured to be invited back to York as their guest choir for the weekend services.
Here is the York Minster live stream of our Choral Eucharist service on the Sunday.
Here is the York Minster live stream of our Choral Evensong service on the Sunday.————————————
2nd/3rd September 2023 – Guest Choir at Llandaff Cathedral.
This weekend we were the guest choir at Llandaff Cathedral for their services. Besides supporting the hymns and Psalms, the works we performed included Mozart’s Missa Brevis and Ave Verum Corpus, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis by Vaughan Williams and Stamford, Rutter’s A Crown of Glory, Elgar’s O Hearken Thou and Howell’s Like as the Hart.Watch a ‘live stream’ of our Sunday Choral Evensong on Llandaff Cathedral’s website.
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December 2021At this Christmas concert we launched our recent CD recording with a performance of Bob Chilcott’s Wenceslas and other seasonal pieces.
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September 2021
We finally managed to put on our long-awaited Robin Johnson Composition Competition concert in front of a live invited audience.
Listen to the music!
Watch the whole evening’s event!
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