Finchley Children's Music Group - London's Children's Choir

Our Intermediate Choir (plus a couple of guest singers from our Senior choir) performed at the Sounds Sublime Festival at St James’s Piccadilly on Saturday, July 11. Our singers were joined by members of LYC, Blackheath Halls Youth Choir and Canterbury Cathedral Youth Choir to sing together in a specially commissioned piece by composer Will Todd called Let Me Walk In Peace.

It was highly appropriate that FCMG, whose singers range from aged 4 (Dots) to 18 (in our Senior and Chamber choirs) should have been part of a festival described as a celebration of the ‘journey of young voices, from under 5s and their very first experiences of singing, to the extraordinary talent and passion of our current Genesis Sixteen choir’. It’s a member of the acclaimed vocal ensemble The Sixteen, Matthew Quinn, who can be seen in the photograph leading them in a warm up.

A fascinating project on May 16 saw singers from FCMG take part in a multi-media performance celebrating the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos, and in particular his works inspired by youth and nature. In 1932 the Brazilian composer was effectively placed in charge of his country’s music education, as part of which he published Guia prático, a set of 137 traditional folk songs for children’s chorus based on melodies from across the country’s diverse regions. FCMG singers performed a selection of 15 of these songs. Remarkably, the concert was the first time songs from the Guia prático have been performed in Portuguese by an English-language choir in the UK.

The concert – which was attended by the Ambassador of Brazil to the UK, Antonio Patriota – was organised by pianist Marcelo Bratke, whose career-long advocacy of the composer has included recording his complete works for solo piano, and who performed throughout the evening.

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We’re thrilled that Dead Man Walking at English National Opera was named Best New Opera Production at the 2026 Olivier Awards on April 12. Our singers hugely enjoyed being part of this powerful work, and we’re incredibly proud to have been involved in a production honoured in with such a prestigious Award.

‘This was a hugely important production for ENO, and I am immensely proud of the artists, musicians, creative team and staff whose talent and dedication made it possible,’ said Jenny Mollica, Chief Executive of ENO. ‘This award is a wonderful recognition of the power of opera to engage with the most profound and challenging human questions.’

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