[1] Libera performs concerts in many countries, including the UK, the US and throughout Asia, and often makes recordings for their own album releases and other projects.

[2] In addition to recording albums, touring and making TV appearances as Libera, the group sings on a weekly basis as part of the full choir of men and boys at parish choral services.

[2] Libera is run as a not-for-profit registered UK charity,[1] "providing the opportunity for suitable boys to train as vocalists from any background".

Their first non-traditional commercial work was in 1984, when the boys of the St Philip's Choir backed Sal Solo on his song "San Damiano".

Libera became a registered charity in 2009 under the guidance of the late Steven Philipp (whose son Ben was a soloist in the choir).

It is only since the group turned into a registered charity in the UK, where a board of trustees consisting largely of parents of members makes all decisions, that Libera have made regular tours (usually three times a year) and more frequent TV appearances.

Other TV appearances include guest spots on GMTV, Blue Peter, Sunday Live, Christmas Cooks, Top of the Pops, Wogan, and Last Choir Standing.

On 30 and 31 May 2007, Libera recorded two free concert performances at the Pieterskerk in Leiden, the Netherlands, with the cooperation of the American Public Television.

The programme was featured on Public Broadcasting Service channels in the United States and released by EMI on DVD and CD.

Libera has provided choral backing to a number of artists, including Aled Jones, Björk, Luciano Pavarotti, Hayley Westenra, Peter Skellern, José Carreras, Neil Diamond, Cliff Richard, and Michael Crawford.

[10][13] Libera has also sung for several film soundtracks, including Romeo + Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Shadowlands and Hannibal.

A movie preview for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button uses a brief selection from one of their songs, but they do not appear in the film's final soundtrack.

For example, Tom Cully sang for Silence, Night and Dreams by Zbigniew Preisner,[15][16] and can be heard singing in an episode of the British television series Foyle's War.

[19][20][21][22] More recently, Libera member Ciaran Bradbury-Hickey helped to record the soundtrack of [Road] which is a short film about motorbike racing.

Former Libera member Ben Crawley did solo work for Paul Joyce's production of The Snow Queen in 2004.

Prizeman often composed and arranged pieces with individual soloists in mind, to emphasize the variety of characteristics and qualities in the boys' voices.

Most of Libera's lyrics come from traditional hymns, the Latin Rite liturgy, and contemporary songs by artists ranging from Brian Wilson and Billy Joel to Enya.

For example, We are the Lost uses the poems "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae and "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon, along with a single stanza from the English hymn, "O God, Our Help in Ages Past" by Isaac Watts.

For most of their performances, the boys of Libera wear distinctive white hooded robes based on monastic cowls.

[27] Common motifs in the cover art of the choir's albums include birds, clouds, light as well as pictures of the choristers.