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Lewisham Choral Society is one of the leading choirs in South London, committed to providing the best choral experience for our members and our audience.
We provide an environment for amateur choral singers with a diverse range of experience and backgrounds that is dynamic, challenging and forward-looking.
We are open to all, and work hard to provide a friendly, welcoming and accessible atmosphere for everybody.
LCS rehearse and perform a very wide range of choral music each year. We promote three or four concerts each season in venues across South London, and we are also involved in a range of other activities in partnership with other amateur and professional arts organisations.
LCS today draws on a rich history of choral singing in Lewisham. We began life as the St. Mary’s Singers over 50 years ago. From this point we have grown steadily to our current membership of over 100 active singers.
This strength and experience has allowed us to present a repertoire in recent years ranging from Mahler's Symphony No. 8, Bach’s B Minor Mass to Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, and from Tchaikovsky’s Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom to Aaron Copland’s In the Beginning.  We have also performed a wide range of new music, including London premiere performances of works by Naji Hakim, Jonathan Rathbone and Robert Percy.
Although we are a large choir, we are always keen to welcome new members. Our rehearsals are fun, friendly, open to all and provide an excellent way to get to know us. If you would like to find out more about joining us, please click here.
Over the 2008/09 season, we will be rehearsing and performing a wide range of music. We begin the September term by focussing on the Dream of Gerontius by Edward Elgar for a performance at the Blackheath Halls on Sunday 16th November.  We shall also rehearse seasonal music in anticipation of our Christmas concert on December 13th, during which we are to perform in its entirety a new work composed for LCS by Robert Percy as part of our successful application to the Adopt-a-Composer scheme run by the Society for the Promotion of New Music and Making Music.  In the new year we begin rehearsing for our March concert which comprises music by Antonin Dvorak and Herbert Howells, along with Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year which LCS first performed in 2005.  The season will close on 4th July with a celebration of American 20th Century Music, which aims to capture the buzz and excitement of American music-making.   The programme will include Leonard Bernstein’s Candide Overture and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. John Adams’ major choral work Harmonium will be the high point of the concert. 
These challenges build on a history of strong partnerships between LCS and other arts organisations including: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Young Vic & The Opera Group, English National Opera, and the Society for the Promotion of New Music.
LCS is proud to be supported by the London Borough of Lewisham and to be a member of Making Music.