Chandos Records releases a new recording on Friday 12 January 2024 celebrating the works of the siblings Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn).

2024 marks a significant milestone in Crouch End Festival Chorus' history as we celebrate our 40th birthday with a series of '40' themed events.

Crouch End Festival Chorus joined the London Mozart Players, soprano Sarah Fox, mezzo Dame Sarah Connolly, tenor David Butt Philip and baritone Neal Davies under the baton of William Vann to make a world première recording of Sir Charles Hubert H Parry’s early work Scenes from Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound.

The choir joined up with the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales for a performance of John Adams' Harmonium at London's Royal Albert Hall.

Crouch End Festival Chorus will make its seventeenth appearance at the BBC Proms on Monday 31 July when it will join the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales conducted by Ryan Bancroft in a performance of Harmonium.

Crouch End Festival Chorus singers enjoyed the busiest year of the choir's 38-year history in 2022 with 22 concerts, in three cities, and 10 recording sessions involving a vastly eclectic range of music.

Crouch End Festival Chorus returned to the stage of the Royal Albert Hall on Friday 15 July for the first night of the 2022 BBC Proms. The choir had previously sung at the first night in 2010 with Mahler's 'Symphony of a Thousand'.

Two talented young musicians who are passionate about conducting will join us from September 2022 on the third year of our Young Conductors Mentoring Scheme.

Crouch End Festival Chorus are singing in the opening night of the 2022 BBC Proms as well as featuring in the new movie about the Oscar-winning Italian film composer Ennio Morricone.

Crouch End Festival Chorus performed what one critic called “one of the finest” Beethoven Ninth Symphony performances of his life at London’s Royal Festival Hall on April 3 2022.