The Highbury Chamber Choir is a friendly a capella group of between 20 and 30 singers, with a special interest in the music of the late mediaeval, Renaissance and Baroque periods. It rehearses and performs at St Thomas’s Church, N4 in Islington, north London. 

Singers with some choral experience and good general musicianship are welcome to apply to join the choir.

Our most recent concert was on Saturday 7th December.

We started our Christmas concert with music for double choir by the great Spanish Renaissance composer Tomás Luis de Victoria: the Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei from his Missa Salve, and the joyful motet Regina Caeli Laetare. We followed this with two verse anthems accompanied by organ and bass viol – See, See, the Word is Incarnate by Orlando Gibbons, a work of strange and unearthly beauty, and Purcell’s wonderfully expressive and varied Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes.

In the second half of the concert, we began with two works from the late Romantic period: Anton Bruckner’s Christus factus est, and Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen by Brahms. The concert ended with one of Bach’s greatest choral works, Jesu Meine Freude.