UCL Chamber Choir will once again join with Burntwood School Chamber Choir, to perform music from England to the Baltic States, and from the Renaissance period all the way up to the modern day. The centrepiece of the concert is Benjamin Britten’s ‘Rejoice in the Lamb’: the two choirs join together for this major work, in which Britten sets the poem of Christopher Smart, then in an asylum. They will also demonstrate the growing link between school and university choir by singing side by side in Sullivan’s “The Long Day Closes”, Mendelssohn’s “Lift Thine Eyes” and Tallis’ choral classic “If ye love me”. Individual performances will include music by contemporary composers Kerry Andrew and Eriks Esenvalds from UCL, together with Richard Dering’s dramatic “Factum est Silentium”; Burntwood will present an Ave Verum by Poulenc and a short piece by Constantini.