HIRE US

To find out more, please contact

David Temple:
dtemple41@aol.com or 07968 821984;

or our engagements team:
engagements@cefc.org.uk

Crouch End Festival Chorus is one of the UK’s most versatile choirs, offering anything from a chamber choir to a symphony chorus of 120.

We have an unequalled range of experience in recording and performance settings, and offer a totally professional standard of musicianship at very competitive rates. We provide a tailor-made choir for every engagement, and arrive musically prepared by our director, David Temple (subject only to music being supplied in advance). David can also be engaged to conduct (usually the best choice, especially for recording sessions). Choral arrangements can be prepared if required.

Our repertoire is also uniquely varied, as is clear from the following sample of recent engagements, which have seen us performing to capacity audiences in the Barbican, the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Hammersmith Apollo and the Roundhouse, and recording at Abbey Road, Angel and Air Studios and others. We have sung with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta, under conductors as eminent as Valery Gergiev, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Daniele Gatti, and have appeared on ITV, BBC TV, BBC Radio 2, Radio 3 and Classic FM. We have been invited to Australia in 2010 to sing Mahler’s 8th Symphony at the Sydney Opera House under Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Live performance engagements have included
• Every Ennio Morricone concert in the UK since his debut here in 2001
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra concerts (Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem, Mahler Symphony no 2, Orff Carmina Burana)
• BBC Electric Prom Roundhouse concert with Ray Davies, 2007 (televised and broadcast on Radio 2)
• BBC revival of John Foulds’s A World Requiem, 2007 (Royal Albert Hall, broadcast live on Radio 3 and recorded for Chandos)
• BBC Promenade Concerts in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2008
• Barbican premières of Jean-Claude Vannier (2006), and Zbigniew Preisner (2007)
• London première of Gavin Bryars’s From Egil’s Saga with London Sinfonietta
• BBC Radio 2: Friday Night is Music Night with John Barrowman and BBC Concert Orchestra (2006)
• The Music of Morse (televised), Here Come the Classics with RPO, for Classic FM
• Porgy and Bess with Wayne Marshall
• World Première of Tolga Kashif’s Queen Symphony
• Concerts of classic film score reconstructions with John Wilson

Recordings include
• Dr Who soundtracks (Murray Gold) for BBC TV since 2005
• Fin de Siècle by The Divine Comedy
• Film soundtracks, including Arsene Lupin (Debbie Wiseman), The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Joby Talbot), Angel Deverell (Philippe Romby), Azur et Azmar and 1408 (Gabriel Yared), Journey 3D (Andrew Lockington)
• Appearances on albums by Lesley Garrett; Jose Carreras; Sarah Brightman; Maksim, Fernando Lima and Alfie Boe (EMI); Will Martin (Universal)
• TV commercials for BT, Merrill Lynch and Charmin
• Première recordings of music by Philip Glass, Paul Patterson and Will Todd
• Albums for Silva Screen and Silva Classics including Cinema Choral Classics which reached the American Billboard Chart top 10
• Celebrate the Day by Herbert Grönemeyer, played at the FIFA World Cup Final 2006

Fees are always negotiable, and depend mainly on the amount of time involved. The size of the choir is not usually a significant factor.

To find out more, please contact
David Temple:
dtemple41@aol.com or 07968 821984;
or engagements@cefc.org.uk

What they said …

“David Temple and the group were outstanding, more than lived up to their excellent reputation. It was truly a highlight of the process” [Andrew Lockington, film composer, November 2007]

“Most fabulously, Crouch End Festival Chorus added a divine dimension to Days, Waterloo Sunset and Shangri-La (performed here live, Davies said, for the first time). Lovely, lovely, lovely. As the Chorus's voices soared behind him, Ray Davies looked like a very proud man indeed.” [David Cheal, Daily Telegraph, October 2007]

“What stars you are! Thank you all so much for the totally musical and thoroughly professional job you did on Thursday last week. You made it easy for me - something which I really appreciate! It was an enormous pleasure to work with you and credit for the success of the evening goes to you and David just as much as to anyone else.” [Simon Wright, conductor, The Music of Morse, April 2007]