Colla Voce Singers I The choir

The Colla Voce Singers is a London based chamber choir formed of young postgraduate and professional musicians. It was founded in 2005 and consists largely of former pupils from The London Oratory School, where the choir's Director, Lee Ward is Director of Music, as well as former choral scholars from colleges such as Royal Holloway London and Gonville & Caius Cambridge. It has performed extensively in the UK, including private receptions for Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Concert tours are an annual feature and visits have been made to churches and concert halls in Poland, Italy, Latvia and France. They recently formed the core schola for the service of Beatification of Newman by Pope Benedict in Birmingham.

The choir has a wide and varied repertoire, including oratorio and cantatas and maintains a significant commitment to contemporary choral works.

Colla Voce Singers also provides singers for corporate events, especially at Christmas and for weddings. See Hire the Choir for more details.

Lee Ward I The musical director

Lee Ward was appointed Assistant Organist at Chester Cathedral at the early age of 18 and then won a Foundation Scholarship and the Royal College of Organists' R.J. Pitcher Scholarship to the Royal College of Music. While there, he won all of the available organ prizes and also organ scholarships at the Temple Church, St Paul's Cathedral and St Alban's Abbey, where we worked closely with John Scott, Barry Rose and John Birch.

After graduating with a London BMus, Lee was Assistant Organist at St. Michael's Cornhill, and then Organist and Assistant Director of Music at King's College School, Wimbledon. He is currently Director of Music at The London Oratory School where he is the musical director of The London Oratory School Schola - a Catholic liturgical boys' choir, which has recorded for many Hollywood films such as the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the first three installments of the Harry Potter series.

Appointed in 1994, Lee is also Organist and Director of Music at the Parish Church of St. John-at-Hampstead.