
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
- Sun, 23 MarAll Saints' Blackheath
- Sun, 06 JulAll Saints' Blackheath
- Sun, 28 SeptAll 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.

Recent projects
Tudor masterpieces
Choral masterpieces from the Tudor age
The Iken Scholars explored performance and patronage in the Tudor age through the lens of five key sources: the Eton Choirbook; the Henry VIII book; the Anne Boleyn book; the Dow Partbooks and the 1575 Cantiones Sacrae.


Mexican
polyphony
Music of Mexico in the seventeenth century
The Iken Scholars explored the extraordinary repertoire of early colonial Mexico, focusing on Puebla Cathedral.