ORA Singers

The vocal chamber ensemble ORA (the group is ambivalent about the term "choir") takes England's legacy of choral music as a starting point for further creativity rather than simply as a given. In addition to performing Renaissance standards, the group frequently commissions new works and presents them in musically mixed recordings. ORA aims to commission 100 new works by 100 different contemporary composers within the ten years following its appearance in the mid-2010s. It made its recording debut, Upheld by Stillness, in 2016. In 2023, the group released Sanctissima, an album featuring music for the liturgical Feast of the Assumption, with chant, Renaissance works, and contemporary music.