If you’re looking for a friendly, welcoming, but adventurous London chamber choir to sing with, we would love to hear from you. Auditions are held by appointment, usually before a regular Tuesday evening rehearsal, giving potential new members the opportunity to meet and sing with the choir for the first half of rehearsal.
June, 2026 Update:
We welcome enquiries from all voice parts, but are particularly keen to hear from tenors, and basses who may be interested in joining. While we cannot accept sopranos at the moment, we may ask if you would like to put on a list of singers to be asked to join once space becomes available. Check back here for future updates.
What are we looking for in new members?
Choral experience, with an enthusiasm for experimenting with music outside the usual repertoire
excellent sightreading ability, and an ability to take responsibility for learning
a high level of commitment to rehearsals for individual projects
and a general sense of fun and community.
If you have a short prepared piece, please bring it along. The co-directors will lead you through some exercises to determine range and adaptability, and accompany a short piece of sightreading, usually a piece of early polyphony. There will then be an opportunity to sing with the choir for the first half of the rehearsal, finishing around 8.20pm.
How do rehearsals work?
Hesperos rehearses regularly on a Monday evening in the immense neo-Gothic church of St John the Baptist, Holland Road (between Shepherd’s Bush and Holland Park stations). Rehearsals begin at 7.30pm and finish at 9.15pm (usually followed by a trip to the pub).
The number of weekly rehearsals for each concert depends on the project being prepared. We generally perform three major concerts with just the choir per year. To these we always add a number of collaborations and other events – choral evensong, recording sessions, carol singing, collaborations with orchestras, short tours, charitable events, and so on. Members of Hesperos pay a very reasonable subscription of £35, three times per year, though we do offer a discount rate for our singers who feel unable to pay this.
What will you be singing?
We try to be as ambitious as possible with our repertoire, mixing canonical works with relatively unknown early and contemporary composers, alongside new commissions. Our concerts tend to be thematic, with a focus on narrative and story-telling, rather than based around an individual work. A great deal care, therefore, is put into choosing the music, and we often spend time thinking about why and how a composer has chosen to set a particular text. So, while you will end up singing some more familiar work, we try to bring this into dialogue with music we can guarantee neither you nor our audiences will have heard before.
What will you be singing?
If this sounds like the choir for you, come and meet us…