The Amici Chamber Choir
was founded in 1986 and is based in the Harrow area of northwest London, UK. It has a core membership of around 35 experienced
and enthusiastic amateur singers and has become one of the area's leading chamber choirs.
The choir performs a challenging and varied repertoire of choral music and seeks to
continually improve its tradition of excellence.
The repertoire covers both sacred and secular works, from Renaissance church music and madrigals
to music of the present day.
The choir
rehearses in Pinner in Middlesex on Thursday evenings and gives at least three concerts a year, with one in a prestigious
central London venue such as St James’s Church, Piccadilly, and the others in the Harrow area. The choir also makes occasional
trips to other parts of the UK.
The choir
gave the first British performance of CPE Bach’s St Markus Passion at St James’ Church, Piccadilly
in March 1988 and the first London performances of JS Bach’s St Mark Passion in St John's, Smith Square
in February 1989 and of Gretchaninov's Liturgia Domestica in St James's, Piccadilly in December 1999.
More recently, the choir gave
the first performance of Blundering Nature by Noah Wilke in Kenton Methodist Church on 27th June 2009.
In May 2010, 20 members of the choir
took part in a performance of Mahler's 2nd Symphony - The Resurrection - with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
under the direction of Marin Alsop - see the Reviews page of this website.