About the Choir

Honorary President Kathryn Harries Patrons of the Choir Christina Conroy Mary Hart Sir Charles Mackerras Nigel McCarthy David Mellor Professor David Miles Catherine Mills Wolfgang Müller-Fehrenbach John Rendall Ann Risman Professor Peter Scott David White Trustees of Barnes Workhouse Trust

The THAMES PHILHARMONIC CHOIR was founded in 1964, and the regularly auditioned membership includes singers of all ages. It aims for exciting programming and high standards, and performs with orchestras and soloists of the best quality.

The choir's repertoire includes Renaissance music, choral-orchestral classics of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, new works, cathedral music and other styles. The choir sings at full strength of about 100 voices in large-scale concerts, and in smaller groups for other events.

Venues include central London halls, including the South Bank, Southwark Cathedral and Cadogan Hall, and local churches in Richmond, Wandsworth and Kingston. Members of the choir also attend summer residencies in English Cathedrals. Recent cathedrals visited include Bristol, Bath Abbey, Gloucester, Hereford, Ripon, Southwell Minster, Worcester, Ely, Gloucester and Lincoln.

Richmond is twinned with the South German town of Konstanz and the choir regularly performs with the Symphonic Choir of Konstanz, both in Germany and in London.