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People always ask us why "Campion", and the answer takes us back to a pizzeria in Rome's historic centre, one Sunday in July 1997. Four members of the Rome-based choir 'The New Chamber Singers' (Andrew Cochlin, Chris Phillips, Marjorie Corner and Philippa Millward) had just sung for the first time as a quartet. We had sung the morning service at Rome's Anglican church 'All Saints', in via del Babuino. We were lunching to celebrate the birth of the quartet. But what was it to be called? We tried various ideas, without success, until someone suggested making an acronym from our initials. As none of our surnames started with vowels, we chose first names, and the only euphonious name that can be constructed from A, C, M and P was "camp", and the "Camp Quartet" might give people the wrong idea! Then we remembered that we had, that morning, sung an anthem by Thomas Campion. We had a name. Since those days, Philippa and Marjorie have gone to live in England, their places being taken by Helen Raiswell (2001) and Sarah Platt (2003). Now Sarah has retuned to England to study singing at the Birmingham Conservatoire and we wish her all the very best. Her place has been taken by another Sarah, Sarah Hilditch. Amd she hasn't been with us long enough yet to have photos of the new line-up, so the old ones will have to do. We try to give the quartet as wide a repertoire as possible. We all love music of all types, and enjoy singing the theme from a children's cartoon just as much as a Latin mass. We also try to sing as wide a variety of events as possible: We regularly sing:
We have also sung:
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