One of Europe’s most prominent chamber choirs, the Joyful Company of Singers is renowned for its virtuosity and intensity of spirit as well as for an astoundingly wide repertoire which encompasses music from the sixteenth-century to the present day, and in particular features contemporary a cappella works, many in first performances. Together with founder and conductor Peter Broadbent, the choir has won an impressive range of national and international competitions, and has a history of success in recordings, broadcasts and concerts. Festival appearances include those in Bath, Edinburgh, Spitalfields, Cheltenham and Aldeburgh, at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the BBC Proms, as well as concerts in France, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Russia. The choir has also appeared in the USA, giving concerts in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Antonio. Recordings feature a regular collaboration with Richard Hickox and CLS, as well as several other discs of music by Poulenc, Barber, Roxanna Panufnik, Jonathan Harvey, Malcolm Williamson and Ralph Vaughan Williams.