The Leicester Bach Choir

Welcome to the Leicester Bach Choir!

Next Concert 9th June 2012. - Follow Concerts link for details.

June 29th 2012 An Evening of Music for a Desert Island with Joanne Lunn.

We are delighted to invite you to spend an Evening of Music for a Desert Island. Our castaway will be LBC’s President, Joanne Lunn. Joanne comes from Leicester and learned to sing here before being chosen as BBC’s Choir Girl of the Year and then setting off on an illustrious international career, making her Proms debut in 1999. Joanne will be interviewed by the LBC’s past Chair, Owen Bentley, who spent his career working for the BBC in a range of capacities, and can always be relied on for wit and a few surprises!

Please follow the link to find information about the venue, timing, and details of Joanne’s international singing career.

From the review of a recent concert

"Thrilling; conductor Richard Laing was in charge of a breathtaking performance."

To read more, click on the Concerts button.

This site gives a flavour of what we are like and what we do. The buttons on the left will help you find the information you are looking for. We hope it encourages you to join us as singer or audience. If you are looking for a medium-sized (55) choir to join, you may be interested to hear what a new singer wrote to us recently:

'Thanks so much for inviting me to the AGM and rehearsal last night. I loved it and would absolutely love to join the choir. I found you all very welcoming, and really liked what I heard at the AGM about the ethos. Singing together can so powerful and moving - life-enhancing.'

We are proud to be amateurs since that means we sing for the love of it, while aiming to put on performances that express the truth and vitality of each work. We are hugely encouraged in this endeavour by Richard Laing, our Director of Music. Reviewers often describe his conducting as inspiring and dynamic, and our singing certainly flies on those energetic wings, but that does not entirely capture what Richard brings.

Communicating effectively requires both amateur and professional performers to develop ‘ensemble’, a sense of mutual understanding. As LBC members and the growing number of people who attend our January 'Come and Sing' know well, Richard's humanity and wit spread a warmth that connects people. Not a bad thing in a world that is starting to wonder if rampant individualism is all it's cracked up to be.

Most of the photographs on our website were taken by Crocodile House