Promotions Manager, New London Chamber Choir

Founded in 1981 by James Wood, the New London Chamber Choir is one of the stars of European contemporary music.  The choir performs regularly at major European contemporary music festivals, has given many world and British premieres, and continues to commission and promote new work. NLCC has worked closely with Jonathan Harvey, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Toru Takemitsu and Iannis Xenakis. Both Harvey and Xenakis have written works especially for NLCC. In 2003 the choir presented a massive programme of music by Xenakis and James Wood at the BBC Proms and in 2004 gave the UK premiere of Stockhausen's Litanei 97 as part of Liverpool Cathedral's centenary celebrations. In May 2005 the Choir performed James Wood’s new opera ‘Hildegard’ at Norwich Cathedral, St John’s, Smith Square, London, St Davids Cathedral in Wales, and Salisbury Cathedral. NLCC performed extracts from ‘Hildegard’ at the Flanders Festival in October 2005, gave a Scelsi portrait concert at the 2005 Huddersfield Festival broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and premiered the complete version of ‘Hildegard’ at Musica Sacra in Maastricht in September 2006. They performed Scelsi at the Huddersfield Festival in 2006 and the Archipel Festival in Geneva in March 2007 and appeared with Throbbing Gristle in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in May 2007. They performed Les Noces with the Michael Clark Company in the Barbican Theatre during November 2007 at at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival in May 2008 and will release an all-Feldman CD on Mode records in 2009.