2023/2024 Season

2022/2023 Season

Tuesday 1st August
Westminster Abbey Evensong
​Humphrey Clucas Responses
Stainer Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B flat
Łukaszewski Crucem tuam adoramus Domine
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Tuesday 25th July
Three Choirs Festival: A Feast of Slavic Music
Gloucester Cathedral Chapter House
​Performing alongside violin, guitar and piano trio ​Muzika Lyra we performed Bortniansky's ​Cherubic Hymn No 7 and Let My Prayer Arise; Łukaszewski's Two Lenten Motets and arrangements of two traditional Ukrainian folk songs.

Saturday 22nd July
Three Choirs Festival Evensong 
Gloucester Cathedral
​Humphrey Clucas Responses
Stainer Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B flat
Elgar Great is the Lord
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1st June 2023 
Elgar Festival concert in
Great Malvern Priory
with the Worcester Cathedral Chamber Choir and English Symphony Orchestra
We sang Ian Venables’ beautiful Requiem, already a modern classic, in a powerful new version for choir and orchestra. In the first half of the concert, the English Symphony Orchestra performed Summerland by William Grant Still; Elgar’s touching and whimsical Mina; Visions of Piers Plowman by Michael Berkeley and Elgar's Suite from King Arthur.
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  • Read Seen and Heard's review of the concert here
  • Read Classical Music Daily's profile of Ian Venables including a review of our performance here

"Timeless Reflections" Saturday 18 March 2023  - POSTPONED until March 2024

17th December 2022 
Christmas concert in Gloucester Cathedral​
Our traditional Christmas concert followed by a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie in the iconic cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral.
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A feast of festive favourites, and audience carols. Popular Christmas classics from Rutter, Britten, Chilcott and many more.

8th October 2022
​St Mary's Church, Tetbury

Conductor: Jonathan Hope
Narrator: Revd Canon Michael Garland

​A journey through the riches of the Anglican choral tradition in words and music in the beautiful Georgian church of St Mary The Virgin & St Mary Magdalen, Tetbury.
Introducing the music and musicians spanning 400 glorious years of English church music.
Music by: Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Purcell, Battishill, Wesley, Stainer, Parry, Stanford, Wood, Howells, Vaughan Williams, Britten and Tavener.

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2021/2022 Season

  • 14th May 2022: "To Be A Light" - St Philip & St James Church, Leckhampton
  • 23rd & 24th April 2022: Eucharist & Evensong services - Truro Cathedral
  • 2nd April: Come and Sing Stainer's "Crucifixion" - Cheltenham College Chapel
  • 19th & 20th February 2022: Eucharist & Evensong services - Gloucester Cathedral
  • 2nd January 2022: Eucharist & Evensong services - Gloucester Cathedral
  • 18th December 2021: "By the Light of a Star" - Gloucester Cathedral
  • 9th October 2021: "The Sanders Effect" - Upton Bishop Parish Church

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