By the light of a star
Christmas at Gloucester Cathedral
​Saturday 18th December 2021, 7pm

Gloucester Cathedral
As well as joining in with some classic Christmas carols, our audience will be treated to a very special programme of festive favourites by Mendelssohn, Rheinberger, Bach and others as well as a stunning new piece written for the occasion by our President Andrew Millington.
Afterwards, join us in the iconic and magical cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral for a glass of warm Gluhwein and some traditional German Stollen.

2021/2022 Season

The Sanders Effect
A concert with afternoon tea
Saturday 9th October 2021, 3pm​

Upton Bishop Parish Church
A programme of works by the eminent composer and cathedral organist John Sanders, a former Musical Director of the Saint Cecilia Singers and a long-term resident of beautiful Upton Bishop.

The carefully curated programme includes pieces by the choir's current Director Jonathan Hope and three of our singers: William Armiger, Charlotte Baskerville and Elvin Young

2020/2021 Season

The 2020/2021 season was severely affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
However, we were lucky enough to perform a livestreamed concert at Christmas in Gloucester Cathedral.

2019/2020 Season

  • 28th March 2020: "Timeless Reflections" - Gloucester Cathedral - POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19
  • 21st December 2019: "An English Christmas" - Gloucester Cathedral
  • 20th December 2019: "An English Christmas" - Lydney Parish Church
  • 19th October 2019: "For the Joy of Singing" - St Andrew's Church, Toddington

​2018/2019 Season

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  • 3rd August 2019: Gloucester Three Choirs Festival Concert "My County" - Painswick Parish Church
  • 2nd March 2019: 70th Anniversary Concert - Gloucester Cathedral
  • 22nd December 2018: Christmas Concert - Gloucester Cathedral
  • 21st December 2018: Christmas Concert - Newnham-on-Severn Parish Church
  • 17th November 2018: All Clear! A Choral Concert for Armistice - Gloucester Cathedral

2017/2018 Season

  • 14th July 2018: Berlioz Grande Messe des Morts - Gloucester Cathedral
  • 30th June 2018: For an Unknown Soldier Concert - Tewkesbury Abbey
  • 6th May 2018: Parry Festival Chamber Concert - Gloucester Cathedral
  • 7th & 8th April 2018: Saint Cecilia Singers Tour - Norwich Cathedral
  • 16th December 2017: À la venue de Noël - Gloucester Cathedral
  • 9th December 2017: Christmas Concert - St Mary's Church, Kingswood
  • 4th November 2017: "The Book of Hours" - Cirencester Parish Church

2016/2017 Season

  • 8th April 2017: Evensong and Concert for the Eve of Palm Sunday - Gloucester Cathedral
  • 11th March 2017: "In Praise of Spring" - St Mary de Lode Church
  • 17th December 2016: Ave Rex - Gloucester Cathedral
  • 11th December 2016: Christmas Concert - Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
  • 29th October 2016: Crowning Glories - Gloucester Cathedral

2015/2016 Season

  • 28th July 2016: Three Choirs Evensong (Music included the winning entry in the Sanders' Society Composing competition) - Gloucester Cathedral
  • 24th July 2016: Howells: Requiem and Philip Lancaster: War Passion (Festival Commission) - Cirencester Parish Church, Three Choirs Festival
  • 12th March 2016: Celebration of English music in aid of the Holst Birthplace Museum - Holst, Gibbons, Purcell, Stanford, Parry, Vaughan Williams - All Saints' Church, Cheltenham
  • 19th December 2015: Temps de Noël - Gloucester Cathedral
  • 17th October 2015: Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor, with anthems and motets by Purcell and Stanford - SS Philip and James, Leckhampton
  • 11th October 2015: Evensong - Gloucester Cathedral
When the sun with great flashes of grandeur
breaks over the edge of the earth,
Cecilia nine trumpets blazing at her side glides over the sea and land
rousing great organs and voices to join in song.
From 'Feast song for St Cecilia' - Gregory Rose