The Colmore Consort

"These performers really are very, very good... a force to be reckoned with." 

Clare Mackney, Birmingham Post

The Colmore Consort takes its name from 'Colmore Row', the street on which Birmingham Cathedral is sited and the venue for the choir's inaugural concert in February 2004. Since then, it has become increasingly renowned for critically acclaimed performances of contemporary English choral music.

In 2004, the choir gave the West Midlands' première of James MacMillan's Cantos Sagrados and David Matthews' The Ship of Death. In 2005, they gave performances of Jonathan Pitkin's Esto Mihi in Deum Protectorem and Giles Swayne's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in Westminster Abbey, and Kenneth Leighton's Mass Opus 44 in Notre Dame, Paris.

The choir's first CD, Moments of Vision, which contains eleven world première recordings, was released in May 2006 and features the choral works of Jonathan Dove and David Matthews.

Engagements for 2006 include appearances at Lancing College as part of the Brighton Festival; St. George's Chapel, Windsor; Exeter College, Oxford; and the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford.