The groundbreaking Voice Project Choir returns to Norwich in January for two concerts at the city’s Octagon Chapel.
The choir will perform new songs written for them, leading with Diving Dream by Sussex-based internationally renowned composer Orlando Gough.
The concerts will feature an immersive surround-sound and light experience specially designed for the building.
“We were truly inspired by rehearsing and recording at The Octagon Chapel earlier this year and really wanted to stage full concerts in the building which has such a unique feel, atmosphere and sound,” said Project co-director Sian Croose.
“The design of the building allows us to use our singers to place the audience right in the centre of everything and truly experience the music from within,” added fellow co-director Jonathan Baker.
In addition to newly written music, the performances will songs from the Voice Project’s back catalogue with settings of words from Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, Katrina Porteous and Hafiz.
There will also be a piece inspired by the life and work of William Blake whose birth was contemporaneous with the building of the Octagon Chapel.
The choir will be joined by Voice Project solo singers, Jeremy Avis, Lisa Cassidy, Sharon Durant and musicians Adrian Lever and Rowland Sutherland.
Although principally Norfolk based, a parallel Voice Project Choir has been established in Brighton following successes at the Brighton Festival and singers from this group will be part of the hundred-strong choir.
- Concerts will take place at 5pm and 8pm on Saturday 24 January 2026, tickets £15-£28 from the Voice Project website.
