Festival News

28 July 2024

Composer creates video to accompany movements from "Blesséd Cecilia"

LFCCM 2023’s gala concert, “Blesséd Cecilia”, saw composers from across the UK come together in a remarkable collaboration that celebrated 20 years of Christopher Batchelor’s founding and leadership of the LFCCM. Eleven of the composers worked together on Missa Brevis pro Baccalarius, a collaborative mass setting dedicated to Christopher Batchelor that was inspired by the collaborative creation of the Missa…

13 July 2024

Applications are now open for Artistic Director

Download this post as a PDF Download this post as a JPG The Trustees of The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music invite expressions of interest for the position of ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FOR 2026 FESTIVAL The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music (LFCCM) was founded in 2002 by Christopher Batchelor to promote the living tradition of liturgical music for choir…

Church music today embraces a wide variety of styles, reflecting the different traditions of Christian worship around the world and even in this country. Within this variety there should always be a place for music which explores the contemporary serious idioms, and the Festivals at St Pancras have become the vanguard, including and even commissioning works which engage the minds of worshippers who desire something beyond the fashionable songs which, although they have their place, are of their essence ephemeral.

Alan Gibbs, composer
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