of Christ Church, Oxford
Applications are now open for the 2025/26 academic year! We are delighted to be looking for a Junior Organ Scholar. This is a wonderful opportunity for a sixth-form organist to gain valuable cathedral experience under the expert guidance of our organist, Simon Hogan. Check out our Choral/Organ Scholarship page for more details!
We are excited to announce the release of our latest recording project, which features sacred choral music by contemporary composers, specially commissioned for the choir’s daily services, alongside new organ music, played by Simon Hogan. This disc features premiere recordings of works by Alison Willis, Anthony Gray, Ben Rowarth, Bertie Baigent, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, David Bednall, Grayston Ives, James Potter and Sarah Rimkus. Order and find out more here!
NOW CLOSED. Applications are now open for Choral & Organ Scholarships, 2024/25! We are delighted to be looking for two Choral Scholars (any voice part, SATB) and one Junior Organ Scholar for this coming academic year. Check out our Choral/Organ Scholarship page for more details!
Do come and hear us sing in Edinburgh:
Saturday, 26th August
6.30 pm Evensong at Old St Paul’s Church 39 Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DH
Sunday 27th August
10.30am Sung Eucharist at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, EH12 5AW
6pm-7pm Concert as part of St Giles @ Six Series at St Giles’ Cathedral High St, Edinburgh, EH1 1RE
We’re inviting applications from young people interested in the opportunity to sing, play and learn with the cathedral singers. Further details are here.
The Cathedral Singers are delighted to welcome our new Director of Music Hilary Punnett who joins us in October 2022.
A native of Canada, Hilary studied at McGill University, Montreal, and since moving to the UK has held posts at Chelmsford Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, Southwell Minster and All Saints Northampton.
This Saturday’s concert, hitherto featuring Handel Coronation Anthems and Birthday Ode for Queen Anne, will now instead centre on Mozart Requiem. This is in recognition of the life and service of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
The advertised soloists and orchestra will remain, and tickets remain purchasable from Tickets Oxford via the following link: https://www.ticketsoxford.com/events/handel-coronation-anthems
In recognition of the national period of mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, this concert will now not feature the Handel Coronation Anthems, but centre on the Mozart Requiem. The Cathedral Singers, along with their director James Morley Potter, a fine team of soloists, and Oxford’s professional baroque orchestra Instruments of Time and Truth, will perform this special concert in the glorious surroundings of Christ Church Cathedral. Additionally, Simon Hogan, organist to the Cathedral Singers, will perform Handel’s buoyantly optimistic Organ Concerto in F.
This will be a fitting opportunity to memorialise the contribution of our late Queen with stirring music, beautifully performed by some of Oxford’s top musicians.
The choir visited Bonn in August 2022 as part of the 75th anniversary celebrations of the Oxford Bonn link.
The choir sang mass in Bonn minster, choral vespers in Cologne cathedral and gave a concert in Düsseldorf.
Many of the choir were generously hosted by families in and around Bonn. We would like to thank our hosts for their hospitality!
Thanks to Rachel Cairns for her photos and also to Bonn Minster and Cologne Cathedral for providing the livestreams from which the screenshots are taken.
Tickets are now on sale for our next concert.
HANDEL: Coronation Anthems
HANDEL: Birthday Ode for Queen Anne (‘Eternal Source of Light Divine’)
HANDEL: Organ Concerto Op.4 No.4 in F major (‘Hallelujah’)
8pm, Saturday 17 September
Christ Church Cathedral, St Aldate’s, Oxford OX1 1DB
TICKETS £15/£10: https://www.ticketsoxford.com/events/handel-coronation-anthems
Cathedral Singers of Christ Church
Instruments of Time and Truth
James Morley Potter, director
Simon Hogan, organ
Lucy Cox, soprano
Sam Mitchell, countertenor
Daniel Tate, bass
Join the Cathedral Singers in the beautiful surroundings of Christ Church Cathedral for a concert of baroque music for royalty. Oxford’s acclaimed period-instrument orchestra, the Instruments of Time and Truth, will join the Cathedral Singers, their director James Morley Potter, organist Simon Hogan, soprano Lucy Cox, countertenor Sam Mitchell and bass Daniel Tate, in resounding music by Georg Frideric Handel. This will include the Coronation Anthems, written for the coronation of George II in 1727 and featuring the famous ‘Zadok the Priest’. Also featured is the sublime cantata Eternal Source of Light Divine, with its luminous solo trumpet opening, and the virtuosic Organ Concerto Op.4 No.4, heard in a rare version with a choral ‘Hallelujah’ finale. Rousing, festal music for choir and orchestra amidst the glories of Oxford’s Cathedral.
Tickets Oxford
ticketsoxford.com
01865 305 305
We’re now accepting applications for next year’s Choral and Organ Scholarships. See the dedicated page for more information!