About
Christ Church Choir
Christ Church Choir is made up of singers of all ages, many with a strong background in choral music. The junior choir, for children aged 6-16, combines with the adult volunteer choir on a Sunday morning to sing the 10am Eucharist service and the adults sing for 6.30pm Choral Evensong on Sunday evenings. The choir is often engaged in trips to Cathedrals across the UK and abroad and gives concerts and makes recordings.
A video about music at Christ Church can be found here.
If you are interested in joining the choir, click here.
You can find our latest music list here.
Radio 2 Young Chorister of the Year - hear Christ Church Southgate chorister, Katie May Allen, interviewed by Aled Jones and sing 'I would be true' and 'Litany to the Holy Spirit'.
History
The choir has a long history and a strong tradition. For many years two choirs existed: a choir boys and men which sang Mattins and Evensong for many decades, and a ladies choir formed later to sing for most Sunday Eucharist services. As the Anglican worship became more focussed on the Sunday morning Eucharist service in the 1970s, the men and boys began to sing once a month at the Eucharist service and subsequently Choral Mattins was dropped. Under Director of Music, Chris Dell, and vicar, Brian Mountford, the ladies' choir amalgamated with the all-male choir to sing Eucharist and Evensong, an arrangement which has continued in a similar form to the present.
Organists and Directors of Music
Angus Oldacre
Peter Branker ?1958 - 1973
Philip Edmondson 1973 - 1975
Stephen Lloyd 1975 - 1979
John Taylor 1979 - 1984
Christopher Dell 1984 - 2002
Lee Dunleavy 2002 - 2004
Alexander Eadon 2004 - 2007
David Stevens 2007 - 2009
Harvey Brink 2010 -
Musicians Associated with Christ Church
Jonathan Alder - alto, later bass, St Alban's Abbey
Eleanor Caine - soprano choral scholar, Christ Church Cathedral Dublin, Clare College Cambridge
Stephen Charlesworth (formerly Larry Alder) - St Alban's Abbey, BBC Singers
Michael D'Avanzo - chorister, Hereford Cathedral
Adam Dickson - organ scholar, Robinson College Cambridge
Lee Dunleavy - organ scholar, York Minster
Adrian Hill - chorister, Magdalen College Oxford, lay-clerk St Alban's Abbey
Alexander Hill - chorister, Westminster Abbey
Michael Hoeg MBE - Organist of Londonderry Cathedral
Martin Neary - Organist and Master of the Choristers, Winchester Cathedral, Westminster Abbey
Keith Parker - alto, later tenor, St Alban's Cathedral
David Stevens - Director of the Girls Choir and Sub-Organist of Newcastle Cathedral