- So wrote composer Kevin Jones in his review of the Choir's last performance of Mozart's Requiem in May 2006. Thames Philharmonic Choir sang this "mellow and awe-inspiring work" with "musical precision, ease and relaxed commitment..." he continued. "John Bate’s direction secured an exceptional transparency of sound and textural subtlety sustained throughout the entire performance; dramatic precision balanced by lyrical serenity." There was "a freshness and subtlety to the in

​​Singing Hebrew in Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms is a challenge for the 99 percent of the Choir that doesn't speak the language. It doesn't matter that we don't understand the words and must master unfamiliar stresses, vowel sounds and sibilance. The result is wonderfully satisfying - for the rhythms and resonance of the words are an integral part of the music - that's why Bernstein used the language of his Jewish faith - even though the Work was written for an Engl

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Here's the press release for our next concert: share it! GOLDEN BOY SINGS IN HEBREW FOR BERNSTEIN A young Jewish counter tenor is to sing in Hebrew in a work by Leonard Bernstein to commemorate the centenary of the composer’s birth. Theo Golden, a 19-year-old music student, will sing what he describes as the “incredibly atmospheric” counter tenor part in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, at Cadogan Hall on 10 March, with the Thames Philharmonic Choir. It will be Theo’s first sol

"A wonderfully optimistic performance, full of energy and sharply defined, revelling in an almost paradoxical quality of reverent jubilation, but very Mozartian. It clearly impressed the audience."- from a review of Mozart's Requiem with Thames Philharmonic Choir, Cadogan Hall 2006, by composer Kevin Jones. New Members welcome - to sing one of the most famous and loved choral works of all time: Mozart's Requiem. The Thames Philharmonic Choir rehearsal on 23 January is open to

Sing Mozart & Bernstein from scratch at an Open Rehearsal with the Thames Philharmonic Choir Tuesday, 23 January at 7.30pm, Granard School, Putney, SW15 6XA An opportunity to see what it’s like to sing with the Thames Philharmonic Choir with the possibility of taking part in Mozart’s Requiem and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms at Cadogan Hall, London on 10 March. We run through the concert programme under the inspiring direction of Artistic Director John Bate, and finish in tim

Treble voices from Shrewsbury House Preparatory School will take part in the challenging and the rarely performed Vaughan Williams work Sancta Civitas. Benjamin Costello, Accompanist and Assistant to the Artistic Director of Thames Philharmonic Choir, who is directing the boys, describes the challenges they face at this Saturday's (1st April) choral concert at Cadogan Hall. “The Work sits quite high for the trebles, so the boys chosen have to have full use of their upper re

There’s an extraordinary, lyrical and emotive section in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ favourite (though seldom heard) oratorio, Sancta Civitas, when the melody from a solo violin soars bewitchingly around and above the choir. It recalls the composer’s best-known work, The Lark Ascending, which was written a few years earlier. There’s a rare opportunity to hear that magical solo and the thrilling oratorio of which it is part this Saturday, 1st April, in London’s Cadogan Hall (www.c