Tag Archives: Cathedral Chamber Choir

2025 round-up

Posted on January 1, 2026 by vhk10

2025 was an odd year, both for what it contained and for what it didn’t. The outstanding feature was the two overseas choir tours in quick succession, with Bristol Choral to Latvia and Gloucester Choral to Transylvania. They just happened … Continue reading →

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a split weekend in the Fens

Posted on February 27, 2024 by vhk10

The Cathedral Chamber Choir returned to Great St Mary’s Church in Cambridge, where our musical director is now based, this time combining it with evensong in Ely Cathedral. Ely remained pleasantly unchanged (although I miss the poster of ground-plans of … Continue reading →

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Go to Jail

Posted on February 22, 2023 by vhk10

The branch of the Premier Inn I stayed in at Bury St Edmunds was previously the town gaol, and retained some of the original features (not in my room, I’m happy to say). After not singing last year with the … Continue reading →

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Portsmouth pointing: 2

Posted on September 14, 2021 by vhk10

We returned from our dumb day (in our case, a first visit to the Isle of Wight) to the second half of the Portsmouth week. This had delighted the script/diacritical mark nerd in me (I update the choir’s website) as … Continue reading →

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Portsmouth pointing: 1

Posted on September 3, 2021 by vhk10

Finally I got to sing my first choral evensong in 18 months. The Cathedral Chamber Choir was in residence at Portsmouth Cathedral (rearranged from Salisbury) for a week, many of us staying in Rees Hall towards Southsea. It’s a very … Continue reading →

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Portsmouth to the rescue

Posted on October 3, 2020 by vhk10

We are now beginning to see which Cathedrals have been hit hardest by the loss of revenue in 2020. I’d made a booking for a choir to sing for a week in Salisbury in 2021, and this week got a … Continue reading →

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a place for visiting choirs?

Posted on June 26, 2020 by vhk10

All choral singers must be wondering just what will be left when their choirs are allowed to perform again. One sector I am reasonably sanguine about is that of the Cathedral visiting choir. These choirs are essentially self-funding. Of the … Continue reading →

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a belated return to Truro

Posted on September 20, 2019 by vhk10

Truro was one of the first Cathedrals that I performed in, but that was a one-off: a concert I sang on tour with the Exon Singers. I’d never sung a service there until I returned with the Cathedral Chamber Choir … Continue reading →

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a view of the marina

Posted on March 5, 2019 by vhk10

The song room at Christchurch Priory must have one of the nicest views of all: across to the inlet of the river Stour where there is a marina full of yachts. I’d never been to the Priory (or indeed the … Continue reading →

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1 out of 37

Posted on September 8, 2018 by vhk10

There was lots of music that was new to me in the Cathedral Chamber Choir’s sojourn at Winchester Cathedral.  One piece that wasn’t was Tallis’ Latin Magnificat, which I’ve sung with a couple of other visiting choirs.  So I was … Continue reading →

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avoiding the Prayer Fayre

Posted on June 24, 2017 by vhk10

The Cathedral Chamber Choir sang at Wells Cathedral for the weekend of Trinity Sunday. Well, sort of, as on the Sunday afternoon we made way for a ‘prayer fayre’ in the Cathedral and decamped to St Cuthbert’s Church, together with … Continue reading →

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Lilies for William

Posted on September 25, 2016 by vhk10

Members of the Cathedral Chamber Choir reassembled a week later at St. Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico to remember William Wingate. William was a very long-standing member of the choir, who occasionally conducted it and sadly died recently before his time. Although … Continue reading →

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