News & Reviews

And a very famous orchestral piece

See what people thought about the full forces of Chorus of Dissent and the Elastic Band performing together again

We certainly hit it with Mozart!

See what people thought about the full forces of Chorus of Dissent and the Elastic Band performing together again

Excerpts of Chorus of Dissent performing Ravel and Beethoven

Dissenters’ pay musicians for cancelled Mozart concert

Chorus of Dissent’s Christmas gift to Stokey and St Matthias Church

We loved our All We Need Is Love concert. And it’s clear so did our audience…we raised £2,000!!

Read on to find out how much our Stokebourne festival raised for the Shine A Light on St Matthias Appeal

Our performance of St John Passion hit the right note with our audience

Proud to sponsor Clara Sanabras’ album launch at Wilton’s Music Hall 8pm, 2 May 2019

Broadcaster Jumoke Fashola is first-ever female Evangelist in Chorus of Dissent’s St John Passion

Get ready for Dissenters’ Grand Pianothon

Fundraising concert did what it said on the tin…

Chorus of Dissent’s famous festive feast will raise spirits and herald in Christmas

We performed Bernstein, Vaughan Williams and Holst’s Planets Suite to a packed Stokey town hall to mark three centenaries – here’s the verdict

An autumn concert to mark 100 years since the end of WWI and other centenaries
Saturday 6 Oct 2018, 5.30pm
Stoke Newington Town Hall

Young Dissenters community youth choir singing again with new artistic director James Moriarty. All welcome Tuesdays 4.30-5.30pm St Matthias Hall.

Antiguan High Commissioner Karen-Mae Hill thanks Ruth, Chorus of Dissent and the Elastic Band for a first class concert.

Chorus of Dissent and the Elastic Band performed a joint concert with the National Youth Choir of Antigua and Barbuda which packed St Matthias Church, and wowed the audience which included the islands’ Governor General and High Commissioner, and Hackney’s Deputy Speaker Cllr Cam Adams.

Proud to be hosting the Refugee Tales walk in solidarity with asylum seekers and refugees, at 7pm on 10 July, St Matthias Church. Free, all welcome.

Chorus of Dissent and the Elastic Band warmly welcome the National Youth Choir of Antigua and Barbuda to perform a joint concert at 5.30pm on June 30 at St Matthias Church, Stoke Newington. It’s their first visit to the UK yet they’re that good, they’ve been invited to sing at Buckingham Palace.

Chorus of Dissent sang and the Elastic band played to a packed church at St Matthias Patronal Festival

Chorus of Dissent’s Notes for Women concert was a hit when they took it to Galway City in Ireland

Dissenters launch new charity dissentersartsn16 with portrait exhibition at St Matthias Halls featuring work from pupils at St Matthias School, Akwaaba Refugee and Asylum Centre. The charity funds arts opportunities for the N16 community including ballet, singing and art.

Review of Chorus of Dissent’s hilarious 21st century version of Gilbert & Sullivan’s one-act opera Trial by Jury set in Stoke Newington – by Charlotte Heath

Ruth is currently mid-Atlantic on her way to Antigua with a suitcase full of trumpets, French horns, oboes and conductors’ batons to start the island’s first Youth Symphony Orchestra. She’s also...

BIG thanks to Stokey's melodious community choir Chorus of Dissent who melted away the freezing rain outside and brought a warm glow to our hearts with their Christmas by Candlelight carol...

We’re pleased and proud to announce that our fundraiser concert Tubular Bells on 7th October, with Her Excellency the High Commissioner of Antigua and Barbuda Karen-Mae Hill as guest conductor, raised a total...

Our Music Without Borders concert in 2016 raised a whopping £8,000 for local migrant and refugee organisations Akwaaba and Hackney Migrant Centre who provide social and advisory lifelines for people whose...