New Foundling Choir

The New Foundling Choir is made up of thirty 10-11 year olds from ten local primary schools in Camden. Each choir member has been invited to join following an audition in their school. The choir rehearses every Monday afternoon in the inspiring surroundings of the Picture Gallery at the Foundling Museum. They sing a varied repertoire of songs from Handel to world music to folk and are accompanied by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

The New Foundling Choir is led in partnership with the Foundling Museum, Camden Music Service and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

For more information please contact the Learning & Communities Manager.

Listen to the New Foundling Choir in their end of term concert at the Foundling Museum in December 2011 here!

Past Performances

10 December: Old Coram Association Carol Service

6 December: The Royal Festival Hall, permormed  with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and other string players.

5 December 2011: Foundling Museum Concert

8 July 2011:  Schools concert with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at Kings Place, Camden.

1 April 2011:  St Pancras Community Concert, performed with community choirs inculding the Foundling Community Choir and journolist and presenter, Jon Snow.

28 March 2011:  Foundling Museum Concert.

17 December 2010   Performance of The Tudor King at St Pancras Station with the Foundling Community Choir and other musicians (appeared on London News).

7 December 2010: Christmas Concert at Lumen Church, Camden.

6 December 2010: OAE Commission for New Foundling Choir and Foundling Community Choir by Timothy Kraemer. The NFC and the Foundling Community choir took part in a specially commissioned concert accompanied by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Camden.

6 November 2010: Commissioned by the Helen Bamber Foundation, the NFC performed the children’s chorus of a newly commissioned opera Consider the Lilies by John Barber. The performance in aid of victims of torture, at St Martins in the Fields, Trafalger Square.

5 July 2010: Foundling Museum Concert.

2 July 2010: Performing with a professional orchestra, the NFC performed in a specially commissioned piece by Rachel Stott  at Kings Place.

27 June 2010: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 350th Celebration concert in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank. The NFC performed in a specially commissioned performance with other adult choirs and local children’s choirs in a concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

22 May 2010:  The NFC were selected to perform in the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year competition.

26 April 2010: The NFC performed in the Reveal Kings Cross Foundling Busking Tour of Kings Cross. The Children performed music from local composers or repertoire linked with local Camden.

10 December 2009: As part of a schools concert at the Queen eLIZABETH hall, the NFC performed A Celebration of Life on Earth with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Sir Mark Elder.

7 December 2009: The NFC pre-recorded a performance of The Halleluliah Chorus and Oh la la ley for ‘Performance on Three’ on BBC Radio 3.

21 June 2009: Foundling Museum Concert.

5 June 2009: The NFC performed for the Queen as part of Corams Music Day.

12 March 2009: Camden Music Service Primary Schools Singing Festival, Camden Centre.