Throughout the 2025 Choral Courses, a number of Evensong services will take place in venues across the UK. Details of each are listed below. These services of music and reflection will be held in some of the country's most beautiful chapels and cathedrals, featuring the talented young singers from the Choral Courses. All are warmly welcome to join us.
29th July 2025, 5pm
New College Chapel, Oxford
Directed by Robert Quinney
Introit: Exultate Deo - Palestrina
Responses: June Nixon - Responses
Canticles: Second service - Gibbons
Anthem: O clap your hands - Gibbons.
31st July 2025, 6pm
Royal Holloway University of London Chapel, Egham
Directed by Katherine Dienes-Williams
BBC RADIO 3 RECORDING to be broadcast on 6th August 2025
Introit: Beatitudes - Philip Stopford
Responses: June Nixon - Responses
Canticles: Jesus service - William Mathias
Anthem: O nata lux - Rhiannon Randle.
11th August 2025, 6pm
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Directed by Steven Grahl
Introit: Weir - Love bade me welcome
Responses: Smith
Canticles: Bingham - Oriel College Service
Anthem: Byrd - Laudibus in sanctis
13th August 2025, 5pm
Merton College Chapel, Oxford
Directed by Ben Nicholas
Introit: Frances-Hoad - Bogoróditse Dévo, rádusiya
Responses: Smith
Canticles: Howells - St Paul's Service
Anthem: Elgar - The Spirit of the Lord
14th August 2025, 5:30pm
Durham Cathedral, Durham
Directed by Daniel Cook
Responses: Ayleward
Canticles: Magnificat 4i Toni - Palestrina
Nunc Dimittis: Tye
Anthem: Parsons - Ave Maria
16th August 2025, 5:30pm
York Minster, York
Directed by Ralph Allwood and Sarah MacDonald
Responses: Radcliffe
Canticles: Edington Service – Grayston Ives
Anthem: O Nata Lux – Lucy Walker
17th August 2025, 11am
York Minster, York
Directed by Sarah MacDonald
Eucharist
Mass (Gl, S&B, AD): Missa Brevis Sancta Cecilia – Sarah MacDonald
Communion Motet: O Sacrum Convivium – Ben Ponniah
17th August 2025, 4pm
York Minster, York
Directed by Sarah MacDonald
Responses: Philip Radcliffe
Canticles: St Albans Service – Cecilia McDowall
Anthem: Cantique de Jean Racine – Gabriel Fauré
17th August 2025, 9pm
Selwyn College, Cambridge
Directed by Simon Toyne
Compline
Introit: Te lucis ante terminum - Martin
Nunc Dimittis: Amy Summers
Anthem: Hear my prayer - Purcell
Motet: Regina caeli - Lusitano
19th August 2025, 4:30pm
Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
Directed by Simon Toyne
BBC RADIO 3 RECORDING to be broadcast on 1st October 2025
Introit: Hear my prayer - Purcell
Responses: Radcliffe
Canticles: Sumsion in G
Anthem: Rivers of Living Water - Trevor Weston
21st August 2025, 4:30pm
King’s College Chapel, Cambridge
Directed by Daniel Hyde
Introit: Alleluia, I heard a voice - Janet Wheeler
Responses: Radcliffe
Canticles: Sumsion in G
Anthem: Coronation Te Deum - Walton