Exultate Singers | Bristol's accomplished chamber choir

"Exultate produced a purity of sound worthy of King's College, Cambridge" - Rian Evans, The Guardian

Exultate Singers is Bristol's accomplished chamber choir of 40 singers, founded in September 2002 by David Ogden to sing Sunday Morning Worship in a live broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It has given more than 110 concerts, several more radio broadcasts on BBC Radios 2, 3, 4, the World Service and Classic FM and has appeared on BBC's Songs of Praise and The One Show.

Exultate Singers' third CD, All Shall Be Well, including the title track by Roxanna Panufnik, will be released on the Naxos label on 1st May 2012.

Exultate Singers' performance highlights include a performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion with Andrew Tortise singing the role of the Evangelist in April 2011; Bach's Mass in B minor in St George's Bristol for Easter 2009; Elgar's Dream of Gerontius with City of Bristol Choir and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; the first South West performance of James MacMillan's demanding work for choir and string orchestra, Seven Last Words From The Cross, and a live broadcast on BBC Radio 4 of Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert from St Martin-in-the-Fields in London with the Big Buzzard Boogie Band.

Forthcoming concerts and events

Saturday 19th May 2012 - London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

Exultate Singers gives a concert at St Pancras Church including the premiere of a new setting of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis that the choir has co-commissioned from Roxanna Panufnik.

Wednesday 30th May 2012 - The Shaping of the Invisible

Accompanying an exhibition of Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci from the Royal Collection, Exultate Singers perform a concert of music from the time of da Vinci to the present day. Audience members will also be able to view the exhibition in timed slots.

6th July 2012 - Summer Festival of Song opening concert for Churchill Music

A concert to open the festival in St John the Baptist Church, Churchill

8th July 2012 - Churchill Music community concert

Exultate Singers together with local choirs from the Churchill area give the world premiere of a new work by composer Thomas Hewitt Jones and poet Matt Harvey