IKEN SCHOLARS
chamber choir
Welcome
Welcome to the website of the Iken Scholars, one of London's premier chamber choirs.
We give performances of hidden corners of Renaissance polyphony to audiences across the capital and beyond.
You can explore below our upcoming performances as well as our past projects.
Matthew Dunn, Director
Upcoming performances
Treasures from ArundelSat 20 SeptArundel
Treasures from Arundel (at Lambeth Palace)Thu 25 SeptLondon
The Ikens Do Christmas 2025Sat 13 DecAll Saints' Blackheath
Major forthcoming project
Arundel choirbook
Recording and associated performances
The Arundel Choirbook (also called the Lambeth Choirbook), one of the most important extant collections of English polyphony, is 500 years old this year. To mark this significant milestone, the Iken Scholars are collaborating with Lambeth Palace to record seven previously un-recorded works. As well as making these recordings publicly available, it is hoped there will be a number of performances of these pieces throughout the year.
[Picture reproduced with the permission of Lambeth Palace Library.]
Recent projects
Elizabethan Masterpieces
450 years since Tallis and Byrd's Cantiones Sacrae
The Iken Scholars explored the extraordinary music contained in the first collection of polyphony printed by Tallis and Byrd after a printing monopoly was granted by Elizabeth the First.
Mexican
Polyphony
Music of Mexico in the seventeenth century
The Iken Scholars explored the extraordinary repertoire of early colonial Mexico, focusing on Puebla Cathedral.