Formed by Stephen Layton in 1986 for a concert in King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, Polyphony has since gone on to become “possibly the best small professional chorus in the world” (Encore Magazine, USA). For more than a decade Polyphony has given annual sell-out performances of Bach’s St. John Passion and Handel’s Messiah at St. John’s Smith Square. According to the Evening Standard “no one but no one performs Handel’s Messiah better every year than the choir Polyphony,” and The Times of London “would rate it among the finest John Passions I have ever heard.” In the US, Polyphony’s recordings have twice been nominated for Grammy Awards: in 2006 for Lux aeterna, a disc of works by Morten Lauridsen, and in 2007 for a CD of works by Eric Whitacre, Cloudburst. This “staggering disc” (BBC Radio 3) spent more than fifty weeks in the Billboard Classical Album Chart, and has been hailed by The Times of London as “extraordinarily beautiful,” by CNN as “outstanding,” and by Classic FM Magazine as “unmissable.”

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Presented by Friends of Cathedral Music at the Cathedral of St. Philip.