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I Fagiolini,
Cambridge
Founded in 1986 while the singers were students at
Oxford University. In 1988 the group won the UK Early Music Network’s
Young Artists’ Competition and has since released twelve CDs and a DVD.
It gives about 50 concerts a year from the BBC Proms and major European
festivals to further afield such as the Far East and both ends of
Africa. I Fagiolini’s core repertoire is Renaissance and contemporary
solo-voice ensemble repertoire. In recent years it has pioneered
innovative staged presentations with a project called The Theatre of
Music, which bring classics of Renaissance secular music to life.
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Ian
Engelmann Singers, Weybridge, Surrey
The IES is a mixed voice choir
of over 20 singers with a broad repertoire, enjoying a range of a
capella music, early and contemporary, sacred and secular, serious and
light. The choir has recently performed Bach's St. John Passion with a
Baroque orchestra and professional soloists. One of the many strengths
of the choir is the warmth and close friendship of its members,
illustrated by the continuing presence of several of the choir’s
founding singers. There are three regular concerts: Christmas, Spring,
and Summer, with occasional concerts in Autumn. As well as these, the
choir is often invited to give performances at venues throughout Surrey
for church-fundraising, to raise money for charities, for weddings,
formal dinners and at music festivals.
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IDMC Gospel Choir IDMC is made up
of around 20 talented individuals from many Christian denominations.
Bringing this array of talent together is the one and only funk soul
brother, John Fisher. A veteran to the growing UK Gospel industry, John
has previously worked with the London Community Gospel Choir (LCGC).
Finalists in Channel 4's Gospel Singer of the Year 2002
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Ilkley Choral Society
Established in 1949, Ilkley Choral Society continues the longstanding
tradition of bringing music to the local community in association with
our sister Society at Otley.
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Illumination, London: e-mail only: contact
Miriam Mackie
This is a new chamber choir of 15 voices which came
together in January 2006 to make a CD of new work by Miriam Mackie,
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Imari Ladies Choir, Erewash, Derbyshire Women who enjoy singing. We'll sing anything from Bach to Abba, Doo-Wop to Show tunes, Blues and Jazz. Rehearsals in Draycott on
Thursday evenings.
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Imerys Mid Cornwall Male Choir, St Austell,
Cornwall
was formed in 2008 out of the ECC Engineers Choir and the St. Austell
Choir, based in the St. Austell area the choir has 35 members, they sing
a wide variety of music from classical to pop and in different locations
such as Church, chapel and weddings.
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Imerys Singers and Songsters, St Austell, Cornwall
A choir of about 25 members, based in the St Austell area. The
songsters are a small group from that choir.
They sing a very wide range of music, from classical to pop, and in
a wide variety of locations, such as church, chapel, residential
homes and weddings.
The choir has undergone three name changes, and several new uniforms in
its 30 year plus life. The choir was originally sponsored by the Cornish
china clay company of ECLP (English clays, Lovering and Pochin), and the
choir took its name from the company headquarters of John Keay House.
When the company was re-named 'English China Clay Company' the ladies
choir took the name, 'ECC ladies choir'. Now the company has new
ownership, and is called Imerys, so the choir has changed its name yet
again to the 'Imerys Singers'
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Immanuel's Ground, Warwick is
a costumed quire, drawing some 30 plus members from the "Heart of
England", generally speaking Oxfordshire, Northants, Worcestershire and
Warwickshire. It specialises in music from the West Gallery period, ie
roughly between 1725 and 1850, this including not only the sacred music
sung in rural parish churches, but also secular part-songs, glees and
catches, and the popular music, including acarols, of the period. This
is accompanied by a small number of instruments such as would have been
found in any village band of that time. The other part of the quire's
repertoire comes from a parallel and living singing tradition in
America, and especially New England, that of shapenote music, with its
exciting and sometimes unexpected harmonies, kept alive since the
time of the earliest settlers. Included are some of the new compositions
still being written today.
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Imperial College Chamber Choir
Imperial College Chamber Choir is a group of around 24 voices, all
members of ICU Choir. The Chamber Choir was formed in 1997 when Therees
Tkach Hibbard was appointed musical director of ICU Choir. Since then
the Chamber Choir has performed every term, sometimes in conjunction
with the main choir. The Chamber Choir also participates in Imperial
College's official carol service
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Imperial College Choir,
London Imperial College Union Choir is a mixed group of about 120
voices. The Choir is an eclectic mix of people drawn from the students
and staff of Imperial, as well as College Alumni. The Choir is led by
Therees Tkach Hibbard and managed by an annually elected committee of 8
students. Any member of Imperial College Union is welcome to join the
Choir at any time, although towards the start of term is usually easier.
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Imperial Male
Voice Choir, London
25-30
strong, founded in 1978 performing 3-4 concerts a year for charity with
regular foreign tours. Prize winners of the International Male Voice
Choir Festival in 2005 and 2007. Conductor Deborah Miles-Johnson
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Impromptu, Sutton, Surrey 25-strong
ladies' choir with a wide-ranging repertoire spanning madrigals to
Mozart, Pergolesi to pop. Sainsbury's
Choir of the Year Semi-finalists in 2000
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In Accord, Nottingham
Nottingham based mixed voice Chamber choir. 20-30 members, wide
repertoire covering cabaret, classical, chamber and Christmas
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In the Pink, Oxford
Oxford's newest all-female a cappella group, singing an eclectic
combination of jazz, pop, rock, soul and swing and priding themselves on
their energetic performance style and tongue-in-cheek sense of humour!
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In Voco
Parentis, Cambridge Kings College School, Cambridge, parents and
friends choir.
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Incagliati, London
Founded by
Catherine McKay and Ben Cox in November 2004. We rehearse in the church
of St Mary-le-Strand – hence their name (‘The Stranded Ones’) – where,
since March 2005 we have performed one concert per term. Their repertoire
is diverse: previous concerts have featured music by Bach, Barnby,
Britten, Bruckner, Charpentier, Fauré, Howells, Mendelssohn, Monteverdi,
Parry, Poulenc, Rachmaninoff, Schütz, Tippett, and Vaughan Williams.
Incagliati also have a commitment to singing new works by contemporary
composers, such as Ego flos campi (2003) by Elizabeth Croad, and Gareth
Wilson’s Beatitudes (2005).
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Index Cantorum, Winchester,
Hampshire Unashamedly a list of singers about
20-strong who sometimes take a break from professional commitments,
musical or otherwise, to sing purely for pleasure, particularly Early
Music
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Ingatestone
Choral Society, Essex One of the Five Choirs, who hold their
festivals every other year in Brentwood Cathedral. In the intervening
years they frequently join with Billericay Choral Society on a 'home and
away' basis. They also have a Christmas concert in the village and
usually a Spring concert
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Innominata, Maidstone, Kent
The group comprises of friends who originally sang madrigals and
part-songs purely for their own enjoyment.
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Inspiration, Newcastle & Leeds.
We have just performed our inaugural concerts to virtually sold out
houses at The Sage Gateshead, with 350 singers and accompanied by
the Northern Sinfonia. We sing many different styles of music from
Showtunes through standards, to the classics. There are no auditions
to join and our musical standards are very high. As well as three
concerts a year, we also aim to take our singing into the community
to help local charities, schools, hospitals etc. Rehearsals are in
Newcastle on a Wednesday night in term-time and in Leeds on a Monday
night, starting on April 20th.
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Inverurie Choral
Society, Aberdeenshire Established in 1998, and currently with 40
members -- no audition necessary
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Ionian Singers, London
A 35-strong chamber choir giving concerts in central London and the
provinces. Their repertoire is 16th-century to the present,
and they record commercially
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Ipswich Bach
Choir, Suffolk 80-strong, with a wide repertoire from Baroque to
the present day.
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Ipswich Chamber Choir,
Suffolk
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Ipswich Choral Society,
Suffolk The Ipswich Choral
Society is a friendly mixed choir of some 70 members. It is the second
oldest Choral Society in England, having been formed in 1824 by a group
who gave the first provincial performance of Haydn’s Creation in their
first concert. The Society caters for all abilities and has a wide
musical repertoire. In the recent past, our concert programmes have
ranged from 19th century African - Missa Luba - to Mozart’s Requiem and
all styles in between.
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Ipswich Community Gospel Choir - see
Suffolk Gospel
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Irlam Male Voice Choir,
Lancashire A long established amateur choir, with members coming from
all backgrounds, occupations and levels of singing experience. We sing for
our own enjoyment and to give pleasure to our audiences, performing twenty
concerts or so each year to raise money for charities and deserving
causes.
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Isle of Axholme Choral
Society, Epworth, North Lincolnshire. We are a small rural society
of around 40 endeavouring to serve the local community and encourage the
arts in the Isle of Axholme, North Lincolnshire.Our rehearsals are held
at the local Community & Arts School in Epworth, which is a small market
town and of course is famous world-wide as the "home of the Wesleys", and
known as the birthplace of both John and brother Charles Wesley, the
hymn writer, so we have a tradition to maintain here.
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Isle of
Man Choral Society
The Isle of Man Choral Society is a large community choir based in
the Isle of Man with a membership of over 130. It was founded in
1979 by Alan Pickard, who is now President. For more than 25 years,
the choir has performed many of the finest and best-loved works of
the great composers, on the Isle of Man and further afield. New
members are always welcome.
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Isle of Mull Gaelic
Choir, Mull, Argyll, Scotland A Gaelic choir located on the
Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland, who complete in the local and national
mods in the rural choir competitions.
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Isle of Purbeck Arts Club
Choir, Swanage, Dorset: e-mail only: contact
Jay Buckle
The Isle
of Purbeck Arts Club Choir is an SATB choir of approximately 50 singers
rehearsing weekly in term time from September to May on Thursday
evenings in Swanage in preparation for 2 main concerts a year plus other
smaller events. New members are always welcome.
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Islington Choral Society, London
A friendly, lively, non-auditioned performing group of about 80 choral
singers, who always welcome new members at all levels of experience
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Italian
Madrigal Group
Formed 4/98 primarily to promote the secular music
of 16th/17th century Italy, this London-based
group consists of 5 singers, 2 violinists, a theorbo player and
continuo; and also commissions works from today's leading composers
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