About Highgate Choral Society

Having been around for nearly 140 years, Highgate Choral Society knows a thing or two about staging quality concerts. We’re one of the longest established amateur choirs, bringing the best in choral music to the people of North London.

Although our regular concert homes are local, we also occasionally venture into central London, performing at the Barbican, the Royal Festival Hall and St Paul’s Cathedral. With classical music promoter Raymond Gubbay, we’re regular performers at the Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican supporting choral classics such as Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 ‘Choral’.

We sing a wide variety of choral music, from the more popular choral pieces to newly-commissioned works by Julian Knight, Brian Chapple, Julian Philips and Ronald Corp. Our latest commission was Ronald Corp’s Missa Andalucia which had its world premiere at Iglesia de la Magdalena in Seville in May 2019.

Although an amateur choir we work with professional musicians; the New London Orchestra is a regular partner. We sing with both established and up-and-coming artists including Anna Devin, Sam Evans, Magid el-Bushra and Grace Davidson.

We also tour every two years and if you want to know more about where we have been, details of our most recent tour are here.

However, if you’d like to see us closer to home, details of our next concert are here

Who’s who in HCS

A choir of our size does need some organising and we’re lucky with the dedicated people who devote a lot of their time to sorting us out. These sterling individuals are:

Chair – Ashitey Ollennu – chair@hcschoir.com
Treasurer – Luke Randolph
Membership – Janet Floyd and Felicity Dirmeik – singwithhcs@hcschoir.com

Plus – Rachel Ambrose, Debby Burman, Michael Church, Robyn Conway, Michaela Drapes Emily Finch, Richard Gourlay, Tom King, Ursula Taylor.

Our patrons

Rt Hon Lord Jenkin of Roding
Lynne Featherstone MP
Peter Frankl
Gilly Sonin