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OSJ Voices
"Incredibly accomplished part singing. Supple and lithe, Fauré's vocal lines seldom breathe such ethereal beauty."
Glasgow Herald
Since its first appearance OSJ Voices has established itself as one of the country's foremost choral groups.
Its Chorus Master is Jeremy Jackman.
The choir gives a number of concerts a year with the Orchestra of St John's. Flexible in both size and approach it is equally at home with the familiar, the less well known and the brand new.

Its repertoire includes a variety of a capella music from the 16 th to the 20 th century; larger choral masterpieces such as Handel's Messiah and the Requiems of Mozart and Brahms; and contemporary works such as Stephen Montague's Varshavian Autumn , which was written especially for them and recorded with the orchestra on the Montague CD Snakebite . Nothing if not versatile, the choir has also featured on Roberto Alagna's Christmas CD (EMI); broadcast Schumann's Requiem on Classic FM; appeared in Doomwatch for Channel Four; and provided the voices behind the BBC TV trailer for the 2002 Six Nations Championship!
In 2004 OSJ Voices celebrated its tenth anniversary. OSJ's Associate Composer Benjamin Wallfisch commemorated this event by writing A Winter's Tale for them, and was first performed in December of that year.In 2008, OSJ Voices featured on the BBC2 television series Maestro.
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OSJ Voices are directed by our Chorus Master, Jeremy Jackman. An experience singer himself, Jeremy has sung throughout Eastern and Western Europe as a soloist, and with ensembles such as the BBC Singers, the BBC Northern Singers, the Alfred Deller Choir, the Tallis Scholars and The Sixteen. In 1994 he was invited to form the Choir of the Orchestra of St |
| John's, now OSJ Voices. He is now Musical Director of the English Baroque Choir and also conducts the Cecilian Singers, the Jay Singers and the Haringey Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra. Jeremy has conducted at many of the major concert halls in the UK and around the world. |
"Their brief a capella passage was spellbinding."
The Independent |