Choirs for Climate

Singing to change the world

This page offers resources for any choirs who are passionate about the environment. Get new music for your choir to sing, find causes to support, pick up tips on becoming an eco-friendly choir, see previous climate choir events, and much more.

Choirs for Climate: new music by composers from all around the world, about the most important issue of our time. Creative Scotland National Lottery Funded.

What’s available at Choirs For Climate?

New music, free – much of the music on this site can be downloaded for free and used by your choir straight away.

New music, reasonably priced – a wide variety of environment-themed music for choirs, available from commercial sites

Lists of music for all choir types now available – protest music, unison, 2-3 parts and 4+ parts, and a page for music that could be used in worship

Becoming an eco-friendly choir – tips and ideas from all around the world on how to reduce your choir’s carbon footprint

Concerts, events and recordings – listen to music online or in person, and find other events about culture and climate

Resources and information – guides, essays and talks on music and climate change

Causes and charities to support – a list of groups and causes that you could support with a performance or by campaigning

Climate choir actions – events, protests and concerts by climate choirs around the world

Get involved – join #ChoirsForClimate as a choir director, singer, composer, lyricist, or in other ways

Organisations – other groups working in the area of music and climate change

Latest news

Recently added music for unaccompanied choirs (* = free):

in March 2024, the Climate Choir Movement held a protest against the Rosebank oil field in the Houses of Parliament! Read more about it in the Guardian here.

Choirs For Ecocide Law launched with a concert in Finland in April 2023 and a session at the World Choir Symposium in Istanbul in June 2023. To learn more about the project, watch our webinar here (recorded 20th Sept 2023). Click here to find out about the Choirs For Ecocide Law project, and see if your choir wants to take part. This is a 60-minute programme of new works to promote ecocide law, made available to all participating choirs completely free! It’s available for unison voices, 2-part choir, or SATB choir, with piano and/or guitar accompaniment. A full performance of the Choirs For Ecocide Law programme took place on 27th January in Helsinki, and there will be another Helsinki performance with over 800 singers (!) on 27th April 2024.

The pieces for this project include “The Rules”, “The Oak And The Lark” and “Hope”, which we sang in March 2023 in our Creative Scotland-funded concert in Edinburgh. See all the songs from the concert in our YouTube playlist of concert videos. You can also watch the whole concert in one video (1hr 50 min). We raised several hundred pounds to support Greenpeace.

“Save Our Ice”, a new climate musical, is premiering at the Sean O’Casey Theatre in Dublin on 31st May 2024! Find out more about the show.

See past events and archive of music added to the site.

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