Patron: Dame Emma Kirkby

Conductor Laureate: Howard Williams

NEWS

CC21 is delighted to welcome Richard Gowers as its new conductor. He will direct his first concert with the choir on Saturday 26th October, 2024 - Brahms: A German Requiem, with music by Schütz and Mendelssohn.

The choir is very grateful to Howard Williams, our Conductor Emeritus, who directed the choir for the 2023/2024 season.

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CC21 is made up of some of London’s most experienced amateur singers, performing a repertoire which is deliberately broad, both sacred and secular, to reflect the depth and richness of the choral music which is our heritage. 

The choir’s recordings on the SOMM label include both the Elgar and Kodály versions of The Music Makers, Philip Glass’s Another Look at Harmony–Part IV and Mátyás Seiber a cappella.

Recent work has included the Rachmaninov Vespers, Strauss Deutsche Motette, Britten Sacred and Profane, Castelnuovo-Tedesco Romancero Gitano and Frank Martin Songs of Ariel and Mass for Double Choir.

In addition to its normal a cappella projects, CC21’s collaborations with the English Chamber Orchestra under Howard Williams have resulted in performances of which MusicalCriticism.com wrote that it 'would have been difficult to better'.

'Right from the start, we know we are in for a treat' Elgar Society Journal

The Choir of the 21st Century was a rhythmically rigorous, brightly voiced amateur chorus -- in perfect scale and character for the occasion’. Hilary Finch, Times Online