Last night's electrifying near-sold-out performance of Elgar's The Kingdom at the Royal Festival Hall has unleashed a torrent of praise from critics and fans alike
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14February
2pm to 4.30pm - Union Church, Weston Park Road, Crouch End, London, N8 9 PX
Crouch End Festival Chorus is pleased to offer 5 places to talented young musicians who wish to attend a Symphonic Choral Conducting Workshop on 14th February 2026
8March
6pm - The Sheldonian Theatre, Broad St, Oxford OX1 3AZ
Two outstanding soloists and the Crouch End Festival Chorus join the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and Music Director Marios Papadopoulos for Brahms’s consolatory masterpiece
19April
6pm - Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ
Crouch End Festival Chorus, conducted by David Temple, pairs Robin Haigh’s visionary Tearfloods: Homage to Miyazaki with Carl Orff’s vibrant and dramatic Carmina Burana
29November
1pm & 7pm - O2 Arena, Peninsula Square, London SE10 0DX
Composer Howard Shore brings J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary imagination to vivid life with his Academy®- and Grammy® Award-winning score to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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What people say about CEFC
You guys were amazing today - thank you. I was sad not to be there. It was a remarkable session and I felt privileged to see and hear the way you all work. Such a professional workflow and great result.Total joy to work with David and the choir.
Jason Alexander & Jon Cohen
Recording session, Jan 2026
I just want to say I have NEVER heard a chorus like you, much less in this piece The Kingdom. I particularly loved your commitment to the text about murderers. That was delivered with REAL feelings my dear altos! Sops and tenors high lying passages were beautiful and also startlingly powerful. Baritones had wonderful articulation too. A million BRAVOS 🩵🧡❤️🩷💜💚💛🧡
Dame Sarah Connolly
The Kingdom, 2026, Royal Festival Hall
Thank you so much for your input into the performance at the RAH and your magnificent choir. Wonderful. I look forward to the next time...For me, best Armed Man ever!
Sir Karl Jenkins
(80th birthday concert) Royal Albert Hall
Just wanted to express my sincere thanks and admiration for a wonderful session! I've just finished comping the singers and they sound terrific...and I'm looking forward to working together again!
Christopher Tin
Composer, Air Studios Recording Session
Thank you so much for making this work, it’s going be fun. I’d only heard magnificent things about your gang and I can’t wait to hear you all on this film
Giles Martin
Producer Rocketman, Air Studios
It has honestly been one of the best experiences I've had and I couldn’t have asked for a better performance from CEFC and the orchestra, so thank you again for everything
Cassie To
Composer, Songs of the Reef, Oct 2022
A huge thank you to David and the choir for such a wonderful first performance of Echo. I was overwhelmed by the intent and effort that David and the choir put into the piece and it really touched me on a personal as well as musical level.
Jessica Curry
Composer, Echo, Oct 2021
Thank you, David, for allowing me to drive your Ferrari of a choir
Eric Whitacre
Abbey Road Studios
Please convey my gratitude to all your magnificent singers! And tell them that they made the impossible possible! You and The Choir are truly wonderful! This choir is an amazing and beautiful treasure to this world...
Hans Zimmer
Film music composer
It was great yesterday ... I love the attitude and skill of your choir and David was a pleasure to be working with.
David Arnold
TV and film music composer
What stars you are! Thank you all so much for the totally musical and thoroughly professional job you did on Thursday last week. You made it easy for me – something which I really appreciate! It was an enormous pleasure to work with you and credit for the success of the evening goes to you and David just as much as to anyone else.
Simon Wright
Conductor, The Music of Morse, Royal Albert Hall/Classic FM
What a totally flexible, professional and creative choir you have. We couldn’t have asked for a better session and we had a blast.
David Tobin
Audionetwork
Most fabulously, Crouch End Festival Chorus added a divine dimension to Days, Waterloo Sunset and Shangri-La (performed here live, Davies said, for the first time). Lovely, lovely, lovely. As the Chorus’s voices soared behind him, Ray Davies looked like a very proud man indeed.
David Cheal
Daily Telegraph
David Temple and the group were outstanding, more than lived up to their excellent reputation. It was truly a highlight of the process.
Andrew Lockington
Film music composer
You and your marvellous choir couldn't have done it better. It was an enormous pleasure and privilege to work together and I can't wait to do it again soon please!!
Edward Gardner
Conductor