Founded in 1981 by James Wood, the New London Chamber Choir is 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, and Iannis Xenakis. Among its many premières are works by Harvey, Sawer, Francesconi and Xenakis, written especially for the Choir. NLCC's recordings include acclaimed CDs of Xenakis 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 new opera Hildegard, touring the latter through the UK, Antwerp and Maastricht.

More recently, NLCC sang Scelsi at the Archipel Festival in Geneva and performed with Throbbing Gristle in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. The Choir concluded 2007 performing Stravinsky's Les Noces to a new choreography by Michael Clark at the Barbican, London.

NLCC will release an all-Feldman CD on Mode Records during 2008.

For a full history of NLCC's exciting past performances, click here.

'...The conductor James Wood's 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)