Choir of the Queen's College, Oxford; Owen Rees

‘An undoubted jewel in Britain’s choral scene’ (BBC Music Magazine), the Choir of The Queen’s College Oxford is among the finest and most active university choirs in the UK. Its extensive concert schedule involves appearances across the UK and abroad, including work with the Academy of Ancient Music, the Britten Sinfonia, and the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra. It regularly tours abroad, and concert tours have included China, Taiwan, the USA, Sri Lanka, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, France, the Low Countries, and Germany. The choir’s wide-ranging repertory incorporates a rich array of Renaissance and Baroque music and contemporary works. The group broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio, and during the academic year it provides the music for services in the splendid Baroque chapel of The Queen’s College. Among its recordings on Signum Classics, Carols from Queen’s enjoyed nine weeks in the Specialist Classical Charts, was ‘Drive Feature Album of the Week’ on Classic FM, and was a Telegraph Christmas pick; A New Heaven and The House of the Mind both went straight to no. 1 in the Specialist Classical Chart in their first week of sales; a recording of music by the great Tudor composer John Taverner received a Diapason d’or and was described by Diapason as ‘a splendid triumph of English choral art at its best’; and That Sweet City was a Gramophone Critics’ Choice for 2024. Queen’s Choir has also recorded for film in the famous Abbey Road Studios, and appears on the Grammy-nominated soundtrack of the Warner-Brothers film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.