Sponsorship Invitation
Partner with Kingfisher Chorale
Kingfisher Chorale brings ambitious and rarely performed choral music from across the centuries into live performance.
We are proud to welcome 2 New Street Chambers as our sponsor for
the 2026/27 season.
Their generous support is helping us develop our ambitions for the choir, reach wider audiences and prepare for our 35th anniversary concert in November 2027.
We also welcome opportunities to work with other businesses and organisations who share our commitment to enriching the cultural life of Leicester and Leicestershire.
Our 2025/25 Season Sponsor
We are delighted to welcome 2 New Street Chambers as Kingfisher Chorale's sponsor for the 2026/27 season.
A long-established Leicester barristers’ chambers specialising in family and civil law, 2 New Street was named Chambers of the Year by the Leicestershire Law Society in both 2025 and 2026.
The chambers has a proud history of supporting local charities, and we are particularly pleased that Kingfishers is the first music charity it has chosen to support.
2 New Street Chambers will also be the Principal Sponsor of our 35th anniversary concert in November 2027, supporting what promises to be a landmark occasion in Kingfishers' musical history.
We are thrilled to have their support as we continue to bring exceptional choral music to life and introduce it to wider audiences.
Extraordinary music deserves to be heard
Britain has one of the richest choral traditions in the world, yet much of its extraordinary repertoire is rarely heard in live performance.
Kingfisher Chorale deliberately looks beyond the small body of familiar works that dominate so much choral programming. We seek out ambitious and beautiful music that deserves to be heard, from Renaissance polyphony to rarely performed works of later centuries.
Founded in 1992, Kingfishers is a chamber choir of around twenty experienced singers with a long-established place in Leicester’s musical life. Our small scale is part of our strength, allowing us to perform demanding repertoire with clarity, flexibility and intimacy.
Where the music calls for it, we work with professional instrumentalists and specialist period players to create performances that bring this music fully to life.
An established audience, and potential to reach further
For more than 30 years, Leicester Guildhall has hired Kingfisher Chorale for its Christmas concerts. The Guildhall fills, audiences return, and we continue to be invited back year after year.
Our 2024 performance of Ay Andar! showed what is possible when an ambitious musical idea has the resources behind it. Combining rarely heard Latin American Baroque music, professional period instrumentalists and greater promotion, it attracted an audience of more than 130 — compared with around 50 for a typical predominantly a cappella concert with minimal publicity.
We want to build on that potential.
Our ambition - a sponsor for every concert
Sponsorship allows us to be ambitious about our programmes and our audience.
It helps fund professional instrumentalists and specialist players where the repertoire requires them, as well as venues, performance materials, concert production, design, printing, publicity and audience development.
Concert Sponsor — £1,000
Sponsor a single concert, several concerts, or talk to us about supporting a whole season.
Download our sponsorship brochure
Your association with our concerts
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Logo and link on our website and relevant concert page
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Recognition on TicketSource and concert publicity
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Logo on flyers, posters and in the concert programme
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Acknowledgement in email and social-media promotion
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Recognition in the programme
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Reserved complimentary tickets to host clients, colleagues or guests
Celebrating 35 Years
in 2027
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In November 2027, Kingfisher Chorale will celebrate its 35th anniversary with a special performance of Handel's exhilarating Dixit Dominus, accompanied by the professional period instrumentalists of The Musical & Amicable Society, with whom we have a longstanding partnership.
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We are delighted to have 2 New Street Chambers as Principal Sponsor of this landmark concert. Their generous support is helping us realise our ambitions for this special anniversary celebration.
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We continue to welcome additional support to help us make the anniversary an outstanding musical occasion, invest in publicity and introduce this extraordinary music to new audiences.
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Businesses and individuals interested in contributing to our anniversary celebrations are warmly invited to get in touch.
photo shown with permission from the Musical & Amicable Society
Put your name behind something extraordinary
Sponsorship helps Kingfisher Chorale bring exceptional music to life, introduce new audiences to the richness of the choral repertoire and contribute to the cultural life of Leicester and Leicestershire.
Whether you are interested in supporting an individual concert, contributing to our 35th anniversary celebrations or developing a longer-term relationship with the choir, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Concert Sponsor — £1,000
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