Christmas Over The Rainbow


7:30pm Saturday 13 December 2025 at recently refurbished St John’s Waterloo, Waterloo Road, London SE1 8TY

Join London’s original community chamber choir for a magnificent uplifting Christmas concert which will feature a beautiful setting of Psalm 42 by Marianna Martines, plus works by Mendelssohn, Bruckner, and Kenneth Leighton. We will be joined by guest soloists and instrumentalists for a joyous evening including music from ABBA, the Wizard of Oz, and the chance to sing along to a few favourite carols.

Grade II* St John’s is one of the most beautiful and flexible historic venues on the South Bank, and has recently been transformed by a £5.5m restoration. St John’s is a magnificent place of worship and one of the best performance, event and meeting spaces on the South Bank.

Join us for ‘Christmas Over The Rainbow’

Tickets cost £17 in advance (£12 for concessions), or £20 on the door (£15 for concessions). Concessions are available for students, pensioners, those with disabilities and those who are unemployed. Booking fees may apply. Doors open at 6.30pm, for a 7:30pm start.
St John’s Waterloo, Waterloo Road, London SE1 8TY
Nearest tubes: Waterloo

Tickets: available soon.

We are currently recuiting new members, so if you’d like to come along to a rehearsal to see if you’d like to audition, please contact membership@diversitychoir.co.uk


Diversity Choir presented their ‘Love, Hope & Pride’ Summer Concert on Saturday 14 June 2025 at St Giles Cripplegate, Fore St, Barbican, EC2Y 8DA. 
The audience enjoyed a fantastic evening of live choral music featuring works by Mendelssohn, Britten, Sondheim, and Purcell. This included a beautiful rendition of Prayer for Ukraine by Mykola Lysenko, And they were treated to a bonus visit to the decadent world of Cabaret with songs from All That Jazz and La Cage aux Folles.


Sex, Love & Barcarolles

In a departure from our usual programme, Diversity Choir presented ‘Sex, Love & Barcarolles’ on Saturday 5 April 2025 at the Wheatsheaf Hall in Vauxhall. 

With an emphasis on love and romance, the 50-strong LGBT+ chamber choir devised an intimate cabaret-style concert, includinf works of amour by Britten, Elgar, Clara Schumann, and Rameau, as well as love stories from Orpheus and Chicago.


Diversity Choir sing a Glorious Christmas

London’s LGBTQ+ Chamber Choir Winter Concert 2024
Diversity Choir presented an all-new repertoire taking in classical, musical and pop genres in a joyous celebration at the gloriously decorated Victorian St Paul’s Church in Knightsbridge – one of London’s most beautiful church buildings – on 14 December 2024. Our 50 strong ensemble sung a Gloria by British composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth – along with melodies by Haydn, Lauridsen and Holst.  

In a nod to its West End revival we included a song from ‘Oliver!’ – and a rousing standard from ‘La Cage Aux Folles’.


Hear our latest recordings of Big Yellow Taxi, Being Alive, Pastyme, and Rachmaninoff’s Shestopsalmiye on YouTube: