Performances of BBC Singers at BBC Singers

The BBC Singers present a concert of repertoire based on musical settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. Alongside Thomas Tallis’s famous setting are new works using the lamentations as their inspiration, by Cassandra Miller and Nico Muhly.

Music and Meditation live: for the first time in London, Izzy Judd and the BBC Singers present a live edition of Radio 3 Unwind's hugely popular podcast.

Rejoice in a stunning reimagining of the Messiah shaped by hundreds of years of Black musical excellence combining Handel's masterpiece with Quincy Jones' reinterpretation.

The BBC Singers, led by conductor Krista Audere, perform Parry’s Songs of Farewell, his profoundly moving cycle of wartime laments for a lost age.

On the back of two highly successful concerts of the world of musical theatre, the BBC Singers kick off their 2026/27 concerts at Milton Court with Chief Conductor Owain Park exploring the music of Academy and Grammy award winning composer Alan Menken.

Classical music’s greatest international party draws the 2026 Proms to a close. Superstar pianist Yuja Wang is joined by Scottish tenor Nicky Spence and massed BBC forces, all marshalled by Sakari Oramo

Grammy Award-winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie joins the Fantasia Orchestra and BBC Singers for a genre-busting programme that features music by Vaughan Williams, Radiohead, John Coltrane and Caroline Shaw

An informal, Transatlantic-themed matinee in the year we celebrate the 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence

Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra pair Elgar’s sweeping First Symphony with two contemporary works: Judith Weir’s Moon and Star and the world premiere of Brett Dean’s The World’s Wife, setting words by Carol Ann Duffy

A mini choral convention, shining a spotlight on voices from the North East as well as on the BBC Singers, featuring a selection from Parry’s Songs of Farewell and Tavener’s heartrending Song for Athene

Piano superstar Yunchan Lim joins Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Ravel’s bluesy Concerto in G major. We also hear music by Copland, Gershwin and Finzi, alongside a world premiere from French-British composer Josephine Stephenson

The BBC Singers return to Norwich Cathedral with works themed around two women central to the history of the city – Julian of Norwich and Edith Cavell.

The BBC Singers join Artist in Association Eric Whitacre for a beautiful concert at the Schwarzman Centre, Oxford. The Sacred Veil, created by Whitacre and poet Charles Anthony Silvestri, explores the fragile lines between birth, love, life & loss.

Pulitzer winner Tyshawn Sorey honours Morton Feldman and the Rothko Chapel with a meditative new work exploring sound, memory, and spiritual resonance, featuring the Barbican's Artist in Residence Davóne Tines.

Daniel Hyde returns to conduct the BBC Singers in a concert showcasing a wide variety of choral music from North America.

The BBC Singers join the Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris for a concert of in the Notre-Dame Cathedral.

A glorious finale to the 90th season, where voices and orchestra soar as one.

The BBC Singers join the Academy of Ancient Music under Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin for one of the ‘greatest musical works of art of all times and nations’: Bach’s monumental Mass in B minor.

The BBC Singers join forces with Aurora Orchestra and Britten Pears Chamber Choir for a glittering performance of Fauré’s Requiem.

The BBC Singers join their Artist in Association, Anna Lapwood, for the final time in her role with the group to record Choral Evensong.

The BBC Singers join the Choir of King's College Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music and a roster of world-class soloists for Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Cambridge.

Grit courses through Julia Wolfe’s *Anthracite Fields*, her Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio for choir and ensemble that serves as a musical memorial to American miners and their struggle. *‘I guess I have a bias towards the grit.'* – Julia Wolfe

A landmark semi-staged opera by Shiva Feshareki and Karen McCarthy Woolf, exploring the Goddess through history and modernity. Featuring the Upper Voices of the BBC Singers and Vox Urbane with electronics and turntables.

The BBC Singers join the strings from the BBC Concert Orchestra, organist Iain Farrington and Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin for an emotive programme of music to touch the very heavens.

The BBC Singers and Guildhall Musicians explore Icelandic chamber and vocal music – sounds of wild beauty and quiet, luminous power.

Join us at the Maida Vale Studios for a powerful celebration of emerging vocal talent with music from contemporary female composers.

Eamonn Dougan leads students of the Royal Academy of Music in this open conducting masterclass with the BBC Singers.

US composer Julia Wolfe’s new work unEarth receives its UK premiere, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Finchley Children's Music Group, and Danish soprano Else Torp, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

The BBC Singers are delighted to welcome Alexander Lüken, making his debut conducting the group in a programme of Germanic choral music to begin 2026.

The BBC Singers, Chief Conductor Sofi Jeannin and organist Ashley Grote give their annual performance of Christmas Carols in a concert that has become a highlight in the group’s calendar. Apply for free tickets here.

Following the success of their festive ‘Live from London’ collaboration in 2024, Adrian Scarborough (History Boys, Gavin and Stacey) joins the BBC Singers on a Christmas journey of carols & literature.

Ermonela Jaho stars in Puccini’s bittersweet romance, his opera La rondine, incorporating music that has not been heard this century.