Tallis Chamber Choir

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The Tallis Chamber Choir is an active British choir with a broad repertory and a reputation for strongly researched programs. It was founded in 1982 by choral director Philip Simms. The chorus soon became one of the best known in England. It is a flexible organization and can provide from 12 to 60 voices for a performance, depending on the requirements of the venue and the material. While the name of the choir suggests that it is an early music organization, its repertory in fact is generous. What the Tallis Chamber Choir shares with the early music movement is that is performances are meticulously researched and sung according to the style appropriate to the music. The choir's flexibility is suggested by their activities in a given six-month period: They began the last half of 1999 doing a soundtrack recording for a new film called The Criminal and during the next week sang a concert performance of Handel's Theodora. A major appearance at the Wratislava Cantans Festival in Poland in September included Haydn's The Creation and a choral concert of music of Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Sheppard, Morley, Martin, and Poulenc, followed within the a month's time by performances of two Handel choral works, Mozart's Requiem, and Burstein's The Gates of Time. Then, within two weeks they sang in Scriabin's Prometheus and began the busy Christmas season with Handel's Messiah, a festive Christmas program, and Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ. In addition to soundtrack work, the choir makes bac

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