Take part in LFCCM 2025
Churches and church musicians across London are warmly invited to take part in 2025’s Festival in May next year. It’s easy to participate – simply programme contemporary music at any one of your regular services taking place during the Festival period. Taking part in the Festival is a great way of expanding the breadth and variety of repertoire in your music programme, and helps foster the continuing composition of new music for the church.
Composers are warmly invited to submit new music to the Festival’s Call for Scores project, an open submission process for new church music. Selected submissions will be performed at LFCCM 2025 in May next year.
Call for Scores is open until 31 January 2025 for youth submissions from composers aged 21 and younger, and until 10 January 2025 for commercial submissions.
About the Festival
The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music was founded in 2002 with the aim of showcasing contemporary sacred music in both service and concert. Based at St Pancras Parish Church, London, the LFCCM has grown to include more than fifty events in venues across London and beyond, dozens of composers, hundreds of performers, and thousands of audience members, both live and online, showcasing the very best in contemporary sacred music for choir and organ.
Listen again to “Blesséd Cecilia”
Listen again to selections from LFCCM 2023’s gala concert, “Blesséd Cecilia”. Composers from across the UK come together in a remarkable collaboration that celebrates 20 years of Christopher Batchelor’s founding and leadership of the LFCCM.
- Listen online
- Programme notes and event information for “Blesséd Cecilia”
- Follow along with the musical score for the Sanctus and Benedictus by watching a video created by David McGregor, composer of the Benedictus
- More recordings from the LFCCM’s sound archives
Review LFCCM 2024
LFCCM 2024’s ten-day programme included concerts at Hampstead Parish Church and St George’s Bloomsbury, liturgical services at nearly 30 churches across London, and a particular focus on celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Stephen Dodgson and highlighting new compositions submitted to the Festival’s “Call for Scores” project.
- “I Am Not Yet Born”: sacred music by Stephen Dodgson and Ronald Corp
- “The Hunt of the Unicorn”: contemporary music selections from the Festival’s “Call for Scores” project
- “Cymbals and Dances”: organ and dance recital
- Complete LFCCM 2024 programme
Make the LFCCM part of your Legacy
Artistic groups across the United Kingdom have seen funding cuts and financial pressures since the global coronavirus pandemic. In the face of challenges like these, the secure future of classical music in this country can no longer be taken for granted.
The LFCCM’s endowment fund ensures the Festival’s ongoing financial security and independence for generations to come.
