Yorkshire Bach Choir

The Yorkshire Bach Choir (YBC) is a chamber choir based in York specialising in performing Renaissance, Baroque and Classical music. For over twenty years it has been regarded as one of the UK's leading chamber choirs. The choir's performances and recordings are based on recent research.

In addition to the annual series of six concerts in St Michael-le-Belfrey, York, the choir regularly performs elsewhere in the UK and abroad. Over the years, YBC has made a number of broadcasts both on radio and television for the BBC, Channel 4 and WDR-Köln.

Guest ensemble The Yorkshire Bach Choir

YBC Concerts

  • Italian Baroque
    with Emma Kirkby, soprano
    19 November 2011
  • Bach: B Minor Mass
    with Yorkshire Baroque Soloists
    17 December 2011
  • The English Golden Age
    including Tallis, Sheppard and Byrd Mass a 5
    28 January 2012
  • Bach Magnificat BWV243
    Easter Oratorio BWV249
    Ascension Oratorio BWV11
    with Yorkshire Baroque Soloists
    10 March 2012
  • Celebrated Psalms
    Settings of psalm texts by Sweelinck, Tye, Dering, Philips, Gibbons, Tomkins, Lassus, Schütz and Gabrieli.
    19 May 2012
  • Purcell : Dioclesian
    with Yorkshire Baroque
    16 June 2012