LONDON CONCORD SINGERS COULD WORK HARMONIOUSLY WITH SPONSORS

London Concord Singers are an award-winning chamber choir of about thirty mixed voices, based in central London, with a broad-ranging repertoire. It was established in 1966 by the conductor, Malcolm Cottle and he has remained the Musical Director. The choir became a registered charity in 1996. The choir gives three main concerts each year in central London. Recent programmes have included a programme of music written for Berlin, including music by Otto Nicolai, Felix Mendelssohn, Kurt Weill and Arvo Pärt. This concert was sponsored by the German embassy. Another recent programme centred around Jewish music, including music by Leonard Bernstein, Ernst Bloch, Kurt Weill and Salomone de Rossi. London Concord Singers have given a number of world, UK and London premières of works by composers such as John Rutter, Andrzej Panufnik, Richard Rodney Bennett, John McCabe, Kenneth Leighton and Michael Ball, as well as pieces specially written for the choir. The choir has also given performances of major contemporary pieces such as Alfred Schnittke’s Choral Concerto and Malcolm Williamson’s Requiem for a Tribe Brother. In its thrity-year history the choir has performed all of the unaccompanied choral music of Francis Poulenc. Following on concert tours to Normandy in 1999, to Ghent and Bruges in 2001 and Rouen in 2002, the choir travelled to Rheims in July 2003 and gave a concert in the cathedral to an audience of over 1,300. In 2004, London Concord Singers are touring to Barcelona, giving a concert in the Iglesia Santa Maria del Pi, as well as singing Mass in the cathedral. Many sponsorship opportunities are now available.   Contact: Robert Hugill, Hon. Secretary. Tel.: 020 7274 3600. Other contact details in our Arts: Music section.   E&OE