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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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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,

• 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.

• 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.

• 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'

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• In Accord, Nottingham Nottingham based mixed voice Chamber choir. 20-30 members, wide repertoire covering cabaret, classical, chamber and Christmas

• 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!

• In Voco Parentis, Cambridge Kings College School, Cambridge, parents and friends choir.

• 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).

• 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

• 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

• Innominata, Maidstone, Kent The group comprises of friends who originally sang madrigals and part-songs purely for their own enjoyment.

• 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 20^th.

• Inverurie Choral Society, Aberdeenshire Established in 1998, and currently with 40 members -- no audition necessary

• Ionian Singers, London A 35-strong chamber choir giving concerts in central London and the provinces. Their repertoire is 16^th-century to the present, and they record commercially

• Ipswich Bach Choir, Suffolk 80-strong, with a wide repertoire from Baroque to the present day.

• Ipswich Chamber Choir, Suffolk

• 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.

• Ipswich Community Gospel Choir - see Suffolk Gospel

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• Italian Madrigal Group Formed 4/98 primarily to promote the secular music of 16^th/17^th 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