Renaissance Choir

Noticeboard posts:
23.10.26 Meet Catherine Olver, the new music director of the Renaissance Choir, in a video interview
20.07.26 Review: 50th anniversary concert at Boxgrove
13.07.26 Review: Songs of Hope 50th anniversary concert in Southsea
07.01.26 The Renaissance Choir is recruiting a new Music Director
06.11.25 Review: “Song of Songs”
22.09.25 Preview: “Song of Songs”
13.07.25 Review: “Miserere Mei”
14.06.24 Preview: “Miserere Mei”
25.02.25 Preview: “German Classical Masters”
28.10.24 Review: “Autumn leaves” concert
30.09.24 The Renaissance Choir presents relaxing music for autumn’s mists in Petersfield
24.03.24 Review of “Ave Maria”
08.02.24 Preview of “Ave Maria”
30.10.23 Review: The Renaissance Choir sings Mozart’s Requiem
08.10.23 Preview: Mozart’s Requiem
10.07.23 Review: The Renaissance Choir “Byrd Song”
22.06.23 Preview: Four centuries of choral music, from Byrd to Roderick Williams
03.04.23 Review: Renaissance Choral Masters
01.11.22 Review: Rachmaninov Vespers
26.06.22 Renaissance Choir members say what they think about the choir – video
09.06.20 Profile: Peter Gambie, conductor

The Renaissance Choir was formed in 1976 by Ray Calcraft, with a vision to put the beautiful music of the Renaissance period at the heart of its repertoire.

We are a chamber choir of around 34 singers that puts the beautiful music of the Renaissance period at the heart of its repertoire.

Whilst our favourite choral music is Renaissance polyphony, we also perform more contemporary works. We love to sing the music of Byrd, Tallis, Victoria and Palestrina, and later composers such as Bach, Mozart, Poulenc, Whitacre and Lauridsen, to name a few. Most of our music is performed a cappella.

We perform several concerts a year in and around Portsmouth and Petersfield and have sung at many prestigious venues in the UK and abroad, including in Italy, France, Holland, Hungary, Portugal and Poland. We have a high reputation for our sublime sound and adventurous repertoire. We rehearse in Emsworth.