BBC Symphony Chorus

Founded in 1928, the BBC Symphony Chorus is one of the UK’s leading choirs. It performs, records and broadcasts a distinctive range of large-scale choral music with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and internationally acclaimed conductors and soloists.

The BBC Symphony Chorus makes regular appearances at the BBC Proms. Performances in the 2025 Proms season with the BBC Symphony Orchestra included Vaughan Williams's Sancta Civitas at the First Night of the Proms conducted by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo and Bliss’s Beatitudes, also with Oramo, Delius’s The Mass of Life with Sir Mark Elder, and the Last Night of the Proms conducted by Elim Chan.

Performances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in the 2025/26 season include Mozart’s Requiem and Stravinsky’s Perséphone under Sakari Oramo, Sir James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio conducted by the composer and Brent Michael Davids’s Requiem for America: Singing for the Invisible People conducted by Teddy Abrams, part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Making America series of concerts in spring 2026.

Most of the chorus’s performances are broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and it has also made a number of commercial recordings, including a Grammy-nominated release of Holst’s First Choral Symphony and a Gramophone Award-winning disc of The Dream of Gerontius conducted by Andrew Davis. Recent releases include premiere recordings of Vaughan Williams’s The Future and The Steersman conducted by Martin Yates and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time conducted by Davis.

If you are interested in joining the BBC Symphony Chorus, find out more at bbc.co.uk/symphonychorus