The Hill Singers Chamber Choir has a wide ranging repertoire from renaissance motets to jazz standards and music by living composers. Our regular rehearsal is in the Wesley Room, Lantern Arts Centre, Tolverne Road, SW20 8RA,. We begin our 2024/25 season with our Musical Director, Benjamin Newlove on Tuesday 24th September 2024 at 7.30pm

The choir is currently around 20 voices strong, ranging from people relatively new to choral singing to some very experienced choral singers. However, we are always pleased to see new singers and if you are interested in joining us, come to any of our Tuesday evening rehearsals, where you will receive a warm welcome. Please go to our music clips page to hear excerpts of our performances.

We started the 2023/24 Season with a concert of Seasonal music featuring Haydn’s ‘St Nicholas Mass’ Following this, our March concert featured music from a wide range of composers, covering a wide range of styles from Schutz and Buxtehude to Dvorak, Faure and Rachmaninov. Our theme for the June concert was built around John Rutter’s collection of well known Afro-American spirituals, ‘Feel the Sprit’ and also included music by Paul Simon, George Gershwin, Vaughan Williams and Bob Chilcott.

Previous recent Concerts have explored compositions from a diverse range of composers, including Byrd, Purcell, Brahms, Mozart and Vaughan Williams. We have featured music by contemporary composers, Will Todd, Alexander Campkin and John Rutter and American music has been a favourite of many choir members, with arrangements of popular classics such as ‘Autumn Leaves’, ‘Blue Moon’ and ‘Summertime’. Occasionally  we have also been able to commission new works and we have sung in Welsh, Icelandic, French, German, and Portuguese

OUR REHEARSALS, STARTING ON 24th SEPTEMBER,  ARE ON TUESDAY EVENINGS 7.30 – 9.30 PM, AT THE WESLEY ROOM, LANTERN ARTS CENTRE, TOLVERNE ROAD, SW20 8RA. THIS IS CLOSE TO RAYNES PARK RAILWAY STATION AND BUS STOPS FOR THE 57 & 200 BUSES.

WE ARE ALWAYS KEEN TO WELCOME NEW SINGERS TO JOIN US FOR ALL VOICE PARTS AND IF YOU ARE INTERESTED TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE CHOIR,  PLEASE CONTACT US BY EMAIL hillsingers@aol.com OR CALL OUR SECRETARY tel: 0208 644 3794.

Benjamin Newlove - Musical Director

Benjamin joined the Hill Singers in 2018, as accompanist and was appointed as our Musical Director in 2022

He enjoys a busy schedule as a freelance harpsichordist, organist and conductor based in London, whilst holding the position of Director of Music at the Royal Church of St. Alfege, Greenwich. Previous posts include positions at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, St. Michael’s Church, Cornhill, St. Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge, and St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. Benjamin is a prizewinning master’s graduate from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (generously supported as a Help Musicians Postgraduate Award holder), a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, Trinity College London, and the Royal Society of Arts. Prior to Trinity, Benjamin studied at King’s College London, the Royal Academy of Music (Entrance Scholarship), and Chetham’s School of Music. Previous teachers have included: Christopher Stokes, Stephen Farr, Anne Marsden Thomas and Simon Johnson. Currently, Benjamin studies with James Johnstone, focusing on the organ and keyboard works of J. S. Bach.

Benjamin has taken part in masterclasses led by Bine Bryndorf and Martin Schmeding as well playing in the Ryedale, Lausitz, New Paths, Greenwich Early Music and London Contemporary Music festivals as both a recitalist and accompanist. As a consort musician he has performed with many UK based professional groups, most notably the Armonico Consort, Platinum Consort, Epiphoni Consort, Echo Ensemble and The Sixteen. Combined with his work at St. Alfege, Benjamin is the accompanist to the University of Greenwich Choir, and School Organist of All Saints Catholic College, North Kensington.