About us The East London Clarinet Choir gave their debut performance at St. John's Church, Stratford Broadway in October 2006 and have quickly established themselves as a leading ensemble within the medium. The musicians are made up of professionals and high level amateurs in a not-for-profit organisation to regenerate live music and culture in the local area alongside the mammoth physical development of the 2012 site for the Olympic Games. Hailed as a ‘first-class ensemble' (James Rae), the ELCC have staged concerts mixing the intricate scores of the British twentieth and twenty-first century clarinet choir repertory alongside arrangements of more popular chamber and orchestral music. The core aim of the ELCC is to be colourful, creative and imaginative, providing listeners with an insight into a wonderful, rarely explored soundworld. "A stunning performance of my Sketches"…. "a first-class ensemble!"James Rae "An enthusiastic, well controlled and blended performance of my Cyclic Harmony".. Meet the Players
Horace Cardew, leader of the East London Clarinet Choir, is a musician of varied influences: Jazz ‘jam’ sessions with his uncle and cousins, the Avant-garde classical/experimental world of his composer father Cornelius Cardew, studies in maths and physics at university as well as working through the conventional repertoire at the Royal Academy of Music.
Horace was also involved in the 80’s and 90’s with the Pop group ‘The Pasadenas’, managing building and regeneration projects, finally arriving at a mixture of writing and performing his own original contemporary music, playing saxophone in big bands, theatres and other projects and working with young people in Ilford on holiday music projects.
Nadia’s recent orchestral performances include the Seychelles Festival Orchestra, the English National Orchestra and the Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra. Nadia plays regularly with the Greenwich-based orchestra, the New Orpheus Ensemble, with whom she appeared as a soloist in Finzi’s ‘Five Bagatelles’ in February 2005. Nadia has a passion for chamber music and plays as a duo with pianist, Tau Wey. She is the founder member of the wind quintet, the London Myriad Ensemble, who are currently resident ensemble on the ‘Young Audiences’ project with the Concordia Foundation and recently performed at both the British High Commissioner’s residence in the Seychelles and at St. Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square. When Nadia is not performing, she works as a woodwind teacher in schools in and around London.  Patrick Miles was brought up in Anglesey, North Wales . He took up the clarinet at the age of nine. He studied maths at Oxford University , but has continued to make music an important spare time activity. He bought a bass clarinet and started playing it shortly after he started earning. He is a regular at Canford Summer School of Music, where he attends courses involving composition as well as clarinet playing. He also plays in the Ealing Clarinet Choir and Ensemble, who gave the first performance of his clarinet choir piece 'Behold..' two years ago. As his day job, he teaches maths at St Dominic's Sixth Form College in Harrow, where he is also involved in the musical life of the college. Through contact with a work colleague of Polish extraction, he is now the musical director of the Polish Folk Dance group 'Tatry'. Dai Pritchard studied at Trinity College of Music and the National Centre for Orchestral Studies at Goldsmiths College, London. He has been a freelance player in London since 1980 working in Orchestras, Theatre and Recording Studios. Dai played clarinet and bass clarinet with 'Loose Tubes' on broadcasts, three albums and many international tours. He has worked with Stan Tracey's Big Band, recorded 6 albums with Billy Jenkins and recorded Django Bate's 'Music from the Third Policeman'. He works regularly with the Pasadena Roof Orchestra and is a member of 'Harmonie Band' whose music leans towards minimalism and post-modernism. Dai has worked with Scottish Opera, Northern Sinfonia, Almeida Ensemble and Gemini ensemble. He also writes and performs with his own jazz quartet. EAST LONDON CLARINET CHOIR REPERTOIRE
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