At their début, in the late 1980s, the ECC were invited to give concerts in festivals in Dinard, Meaux, and Paris (Festival of Sacred Art), appearing on TV in a Christmas programme as guests of actress Jane Birkin...

Then in 1990 came their first of several live broadcasts on French radio (France Musique) during the Musicora festival, in the Grand Palais, in Paris, followed by their tour in southern England, where they sang in Salisbury Cathedral to celebrate the 900^th anniversary of the cathedral choir school.

Then came tours and festivals: Champeaux, Nancy, Luneville, Auvers–sur–Oise, Forqualquier, Normandy abbeys, not forgetting Palestrina (400^th anniversary) and his English contemporaries, in the church of Saint–Louis–en–l'Ile, Paris and concerts of music by Purcell, Haendel, and other English composers, along with carols, in Parisian churches, including the Sainte–Chapelle and Saint–Severin, Dijon Cathedral etc., and above all A Coronation in Westminster along with chorus and fanfares in the church of the Madeleine in Paris (1998).

The 21^st century dawned with Britten's Cantata, St Nicolas, starring tenor Robert Tear, along with chorus and orchestra, also in the Madeleine, followed by similar concerts in the Madeleine to mark the 50^th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Her Majesty's 80^th birthday and the Centenary of the Entente Cordiale. This first decade also included a musical tribute to Thomas Tallis (500^th anniversary), one of the first performances in France of Stainer’s Crucifixion, and a return to England to sing evensong and carols in Winchester Cathedral and in Sherborne Abbey and Milton Abbey in Dorset.