"the top-notch chamber ensemble CHROMA" The Guardian
Founded in 1997, CHROMA is a dynamic, critically acclaimed chamber ensemble featuring some of Britain's most outstanding musicians, known for the passion it brings to contemporary works, its vivid renderings of classic pieces and its diverse participation/learning activity.

Following its debut at the Purcell Room CHROMA has become most closely associated with the performance of contemporary music and has forged close links with many prominent British composers through many premières and collaborations.

Recent premieres
Recent world premières include CHROMA commissions from Julian Grant - Strike Opponent’s Ears With Both Fists and Arlene Sierra - Surrounded Ground, also John Cooney Songlines, commissioned by Spitalfields Festival and written for CHROMA. Recent EU premieres include David Bruce’s Piosenki and Gumboots, and Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking by Per Nørgård.

Opera and dance collaborations
With Tête à Tête, for whom CHROMA is Associate Ensemble, premières include Julian Grant’s “knitting opera” Odysseus Unwound, the six opera shorts Blind Date and The Cumnor Affair, composer Philip Cashian, libretto Iain Pears, and several works in development through the Opera Festival. Other opera collaborations include Iford Festival and Co-Opera Co. CHROMA also works with the integrated contemporary dance company Lantern, based in Ely.

This year
2010 sees CHROMA working with Whitechapel Gallery, RHUL composers and The Place choreographers; workshops and recordings with post-grad composers at Guildhall School of Music & Drama; premieres for Camberwell Composers Collective – Mark Bowden, Andrew Hamilton and Charlie Piper - (Kettle’s Yard) a CHROMA commission from Philip Cashian (King’s Place), and two tango-inspired commissions (from David Bruce and Dominic Shovelton) for the summer.

CHROMA has an active participation and learning programme, including collaborations with Kings Place and Tête à Tête, primary school programmes in Norwich, Amersham and Wiltshire, and is resident at Cardiff University and Royal Holloway University of London.

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"CHROMA played with an unabashed and infectious passion... A fine example of the hidden gems the Festival can occasionally produce, a huge standing ovation came as no great surprise. More, please!" This is Birghton and Hove

CHROMA gratefully acknowledges financial support from the PRS For Music Foundation