London Voices

Founded in 1973 by Terry Edwards, former Director of the Royal Opera House Chorus, London Voices is now managed and directed by Ben Parry, conductor, composer and formerly Artistic Director of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. The choir has performed throughout Europe, Asia and the USA and can range from a small vocal consort through to a choir of more than 100 singers. The choir has tackled a vast array of repertoire ranging from Renaissance polyphony to contemporary music as well as featuring on recordings as diverse as opera, oratorio, Coldplay, German Heavy Metal and Ozzy Osbourne.

The ensemble has collaborated with many distinguished composers and conductors including John Adams, Semyon Bychkov, Bernard Haitink, Vladimir Jurowski, György Ligeti, Vasily Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle and Georg Solti. It had a particularly close association with composer Luciano Berio, performing his ‘Sinfonia’ on many occasions (most recently at the 2018 BBC Proms), as well as works including ‘Coro’, ‘Cries of London’, ‘A Ronne’, ‘Laborintus II’ and ‘Folk Songs’. The choir also performed in the world première of Stockhausen’s ‘Mittwoch aus Licht’, staged by Birmingham Opera in 2012. It has given concerts globally, in locations including Aldeburgh, Beijing, Berlin, Birmingham, Munich, Jordan, Lucerne, New York, St Denis, Shanghai and Turkey.

London Voices is well-known for singing on hundreds of movie and computer game soundtracks, including ‘Abzu’, ‘Distant Worlds’ (‘Final Fantasy’), ‘Halo 5’, the ‘Harry Potter’, ‘Hobbit’, ‘Star Wars’, ‘Hunger Games’ and ‘Lord of the Rings’ film series, ‘Spectre’, ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ (Oscar® for Best Soundtrack) and recently appearing on-screen in ‘Mission: Impossible - Fallout’. London Voices provided singers for Bradley Cooper's recent biopic of ‘Maestro’, singing the solos in Bernstein's ‘Chichester Psalms’, Symphony no.3 and ‘The Mass’. It has participated on many operatic and choral recordings and has collaborated with musicians including Dave Brubeck, Renée Fleming, Ellie Goulding, Sir Paul McCartney, Sam Smith, Sting, Sir Bryn Terfel and Roger Waters.