of Christ Church, Oxford
Join us in Christ Church Cathedral on Saturday 16th December at 8pm for our annual Christmas Concert, featuring Leighton’s A Hymn of the nativity and Finzi’s In terra pax. We will also sing three carols by Rutti and works by Byrd, Briggs and Rutter. Well known carols are included for the audience to join in and drinks will be served during the interval.
Tickets are available from Tickets Oxford.
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This past weekend we welcomed three new choral scholars and one new organ scholar at evensong, and then we had a party to welcome their families and friends and to celebrate! We also said farewell to our two leaving choral scholars – one of whom is going on to a Choral Scholarship at Clare College, Cambridge, and the other will be studying Architecture at Oxford Brookes! Thank you to them for their time with us and best wishes as they go on to their next steps.
We had a fantastic time on our weekend tour of Edinburgh at the end of August. Many thanks to those who welcomed us in Edinburgh as well as to everyone for their hard work in making everything possible!
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.
Join us in Christ Church Cathedral on 15 July 2023 at 8 p.m. for our annual summer concert. We’re pleased to perform no less than 6 works newly commissioned by the Cathedral Singers as part of our 2020 New Music Project, including the Missa Aedis Christi by Bill Ives which is already a firm choir favourite. We will also perform a selection of best-loved choral works including the spectacular Te Deum by William Walton as performed at the recent Coronation of Charles III. This is a concert not to be missed!
Tickets are available from Tickets Oxford.
Prices : £15, £10 concessions
The choir rehearsing in the Cathedral – October 2022.
Join us in Christ Church Cathedral on December 10th at 8pm for our annual Christmas Concert, featuring Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols and Cecilia McDowall’s A Winter’s Night.
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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.