We aim to put on around 5 concerts per year, some with Finchley Symphony Orchestra, mostly at our regular venue at Trinity Church in Nether Street, North Finchley.
The choir has a long and successful history from its founding in 1973. During our 50th anniversary season we presented a special concert with Linden Baroque at St James’s Piccadilly, and FCC’s upper voices recently took part in a performance of Holst’s The Planets with the Royal Orchestral Society under Rebecca Miller at the Royal Academy of Music. FCC has also appeared twice at the Voices Now Choral Festival at the Roundhouse, including a live broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s The Choir. Previous radio appearances include Classic FM and a Radio 3 broadcast that was selected for Pick of the Week on Radio 4. The choir has received three PRS Awards for Enterprise.
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Recordings
Below are some recordings of FCC from our concerts over the past few years.
Check out our previous concerts
July 2025 (with Finchley Symphony Orchestra)
- Haydn Harmoniemesse
May 2025: Birds, Beasts and Bugs
Songs about the delightful variety of the animal world.
April 2025: (FCC upper voices and guests, with the Royal Orchestral Society)
- Holst The Planets
December 2024: The Glory of Christmas (with Finchley Symphony Orchestra)
- Our annual Christmas celebration, with seasonal favourites for all the family and carols for all to sing
November 2024: Dvořák Mass in D major, Schoenberg Friede auf Erden, and motets by Brahms and Bruckner
July 2024 (with Finchley Symphony Orchestra)
- Beethoven Mass in C
May 2024: Choral Songs of the British Isles
- Vaughan Williams, Britten, Stanford, Moeran etc
March 2024: From Darkness to Light
- Rutter, Lauridsen, MacMillan, Elgar, Whitacre, Brahms etc
December 2023: The Glory of Christmas (with Finchley Symphony Orchestra)
November 2023: 50th Anniversary Concert at St James’s Church, Piccadilly (with Linden Baroque)
- Vivaldi Gloria, Bach Lobet den Herrn, Handel Dixit Dominus
July 2023 (with Finchley Symphony Orchestra)
Parry Blest pair of sirens, Vaughan Williams In Windsor Forest
May 2023
Parry Songs of Farewell, Elgar Choral Songs, and the first performance of Dymock Songs by FCC bass Richard Cox
March 2023
William Byrd (Mass for four voices, excerpts from the Great Service, and motets); Bach Komm, Jesu, komm and Der Geist hilft
December 2022: The Glory of Christmas (with Finchley Symphony Orchestra)
November 2022: Sacred music from Eastern Europe
Kodály Missa Brevis, Dvořák Four Choruses, Górecki Totus Tuus, Pärt Magnificat, Tučapsky Amo Ergo Sum (FCC commission)
July 2022 (with Finchley Symphony Orchestra)
Brahms A German Requiem
May 2022: Bernstein Chichester Psalms, Rutter Requiem, Bedford The Soft Stars that Shine at Night (FCC joint commission)
March 2022: Britten Rejoice in the Lamb, Hymn to St. Cecilia, Hymn to the Virgin, Festival Te Deum; Purcell Funeral Sentences, Five Anthems, Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei
December 2021: A Christmas Celebration at Christ Church, North Finchley
Other highlights from our repertoire
➤ 2012 - 2020
- March 2020: Bach St John Passion (with Linden Baroque)
- May 2017: World premiere of Jonathan Rathbone’s Tyger, Tyger (FCC commission)
- December 2016: World premiere of Richard Cox’s A New Work is Come on Hand
- May 2016: World premiere of Richard Cox’s Songs of Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England
- November 2014: Russian Masterpieces including Rachmaninov Vespers
- May 2014: World premiere of Paul Patterson’s When Music Sounds (FCC commission)
- March 2014: Great Choral Masterpieces, including 40-part Tallis Spem in Alium and Alessandro Striggio Ecce Beatam Lucem, and 19-part Robert Carver O Bone Jesu
- March 2012: took part in the Voices Now festival at The Roundhouse, Camden, including a live broadcast on Radio 3’s The Choir
➤ 1978 - 2011
- July 2011: World premiere of George Holloway’s Meltwater (FCC commission through the Making Music Adopt a Composer scheme)
- March 2011: took part in the Voices Now festival at The Roundhouse, Camden
- Feb 2008: First London performance of David Bedford’s The Soft Stars that Shine at Night
- November 2003: took part in St Cyprian’s Church Centenary Festival
- June 1999: took part in 42nd International Choral Art, Jihlava, Czech Republic
- May 1984: joint concerts with Kreutztaler Kammerchor in North Finchley and in Siegerland, West Germany
- March 1979: first concert with accompanist John Winter
- December 1978: first concert under David Lardi
We have performed Vivaldi’s Gloria at every 10-year anniversary concert.