Booking the Choir

The choir accepts bookings for weddings, conferences and other events, formal and informal, and we welcome enquiries from prospective new members. The choir has recorded an eclectic mix of English music from the 16th century to the present day available on our CD - Reflections of Oxford. Please click on the highlighted tracks below to listen to our music.

Reflections of Oxford       CL CS01 Directed by Julia Craig-McFeely Available at our concerts, through members of the choir, and from HMV Oxford, Borders Oxford, Blackwell's music shop in Oxford, Blenheim Palace gift shop and Sulgrave Manor gift shop

Track Listing
1. Though Amaryllis - William Byrd	9. As torrents in summer - Edward Elgar
2. Fair Phyllis - John Farmer	10. Lay a garland - Robert Pearsall
3. Too much I once lamented - Thomas Tomkins	11. Set me as a seal - William Walton
4. O Clap your Hands - Orlando Gibbons	12. No Strings - Irving Berlin arr. Craig-McFeely
5. Hear my prayer O Lord - Henry Purcell	13. Golden Slumbers - Traditional arr. Rutter
6. Beati Quorum Via - Charles Standford	14. Dashing away - Traditional arr. Rutter
7. Cold was the day - John Stainer	15. Waly Waly - Traditional arr. Rutter
8. The Blue Bird - Charles Stanford

Singing for Conferences and Special Occasions

After 25 years of experience, entertaining conference audiences is now down to a fine art, and this is one of the most enjoyable aspects of performing together: the luxury of having a captive audience who haven't required energetic publicity to bring them in makes for a relaxed atmosphere for everyone, particularly those who have usually been running around for weeks with handbills and posters. By now, we are so familiar with our conference repertoire that we could probably sing it from memory, and inevitably that means that communication between choir, conductor and audience is at its ideal best.

Our Repertoire

The programmes we offer are constantly, if gradually changed to keep performances fresh without sacrificing the particular quality gained from singing music that we know intimately. Because of our busy conference schedule, we are now one of the few choirs in Oxford that consistently shows a healthy bank balance, allowing us to meet the original intentions of the founders, that of hiring professional players and original-instrument Baroque bands to accompany us.

Charitable Events

Over the past few years our solvency has allowed us to pursue a policy of regularly offering the proceeds of major concerts to support a charity with some connection to the choir: Amnesty International, the British Dyslexia Association, The Samaritans, Oxfam and The National Autistic Society have been beneficiaries.