Since its formation in 1981, the New London Chamber Choir has been one of the stars of the European music scene. The choir performs regularly at European contemporary music festivals, has given many world and British premières, and continues to commission, record, and promote new work. James Weeks was appointed Musical Director in December 2007.

NLCC has worked with composers Jonathan Harvey, David Sawer, Luca Francesconi, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtag, György Ligeti, Toru Takemitsu, its founder-conductor James Wood, and Iannis Xenakis. Among its many premières are works written especially for the Choir by Harvey, Sawer, Francesconi, Wood, and Xenakis. NLCC's recordings include acclaimed CDs of Xenakis, Wood, and Scelsi; their CD of Stravinsky's Les Noces was the top recommendation on BBC Radio 3's 'Building a Library'.

The past few years have seen the choir perform extensively and eclectically, from their own programme of music by Xenakis and James Wood at the BBC Proms via premières of Stockhausen's Litanei 97 and James Wood's Hildegard, touring the latter through the UK, Antwerp and Maastricht.

More recently, NLCC sang Scelsi at the Archipel Festival in Geneva, performed with Throbbing Gristle in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern and participated in a run of staged performances of Stravinsky's Les Noces at the Barbican, London, under Jurjen Hempel. In 2008 NLCC performed Les Noces again at Norwich and appeared with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Harry Bicket in the world première of Like the Sea, Like Time by Kenneth Hesketh. The choir performed again in London in late 2008 and gave a final-day recital or works by Stockhausen and Kagel at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

NLCC has recently performed Harvey's Passion and Resurrection in Casa da Musica in Porto, will appear with the CBSO in a programme of rarely heard Stravinsky works in May 2009. It will return to Huddersfield in the autumn of 2009 to give a concert centred on the music of Jonathan Harvey, and will release an all-Feldman CD with Mode Records.

Read more about NLCC's exciting past performances and forthcoming NLCC events.

'The [...] singers can pull off just about anything, as their mesmerising British première of the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's Litanei 97 revealed.'
(Church Times, 2004 - première as part of Liverpool Cathedral's centenary celebrations)