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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus

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Founded in 1928, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus is one of the UK’s leading choirs. It performs, records and broadcasts a distinctive range of large-scale choral music with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra and internationally acclaimed conductors and soloists.

One was lost in admiration for the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus.
The Times, March 2020

The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus makes regular appearances at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms, with performances with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra in the 2025 season including Vaughan Williams's Sancta Civitas at the First Night of the Proms conducted by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo and Bliss’s Beatitudes, also with Oramo, Delius’s Mass of Life with Sir Mark Elder, and the Last Night of the Proms conducted by Elim Chan.

Performances with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SO at the Barbican in the 2025/26 season include Mozart’s Requiem under Sakari Oramo, and Sir James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio conducted by the composer.

Most of the chorus’s performances are broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3, and it has also made a number of commercial recordings, including a Grammy-nominated release of Holst’s First Choral Symphony and a Gramophone Award-winning disc of The Dream of Gerontius conducted by Andrew Davis. Releases include premiere recordings of Vaughan Williams’s The Future and The Steersman conducted by Martin Yates and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time conducted by Davis.

If you are interested in joining the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Chorus, find out more including details of an open rehearsal in October at bbc.co.uk/symphonychorus