Founded in 1986, we are a choir of 35 singers, drawn from a wide range of backgrounds. Membership is by audition every three years. Led by our director, cellist and conductor Graham Walker, we offer four to five varied programmes a year, which we generally perform both in a historic Cambridge venue, and again in one of the surrounding towns or villages. In addition, we often travel further afield and have given several concerts in London in recent years. Our last overseas trip was to Dresden in April 2016.
Although the majority of music we sing is a cappella or accompanied by piano or organ, we regularly perform with orchestras, and in our 2018-19 season we worked with the Sinfonia of Cambridge as well as the Cambridge Baroque Camerata.
Our 2019-20 season presents opportunities to hear well-known and less familiar music, sung with warmth and conviction.
Johannes Brahms opens the season for us, as we pair his passionate and virtuosic E Minor Cello Sonata, performed by our Music Director Graham Walker, with the aching and consolatory German Requiem, accompanied by renowned local duet pianists Maurice and Thanea Hodges.
A world première of Stephen Dodgson’s A Christmas Collection weaves its narrative through our Christmas concert. Alongside the quirky and imaginative Dodgson, we present familiar carols by Carl Rutti, Mack Wilberg and John Rutter, in a concert guaranteed to provide festive good cheer.
Returning once again to the Church of Our Lady & the English Martyrs, we offer two substantial pieces perfect for Lent and Passiontide in March. Frank Martin’s epic Mass for Double Choir combines brilliance and exuberance with profound and heartfelt yearning, while Pergolesi’s most celebrated sacred work, his Stabat Mater, is presented in its version for full choir, accompanied by string quartet.
Spanish folksongs, accompanied by guitar, open our summer concerts, and we explore settings of Shakespeare’s words by Vaughan Williams and others in the second half. We are delighted to continue our commitment to new music in a commissioned work from Tim Watts to be performed in this final concert.
After a successful two-year partnership with CPSL Mind, we are thrilled to announce Sing Inside as our new Charity Partner. Through this partnership, we hope to raise awareness of their much-valued work in promoting and supporting the use of music and performing arts as a means of community-building for all who work and live within the prison setting.
We look forward to welcoming you to our concerts.
Members of the public can help us make new music by contributing to our New Music Fund or by buying shares in specific new commissions through our New Cambridge Songs Scheme.
Although the majority of music we sing is a cappella or accompanied by piano or organ, we regularly perform with orchestras, and in our 2018-19 season we worked with the Sinfonia of Cambridge as well as the Cambridge Baroque Camerata.
Our 2019-20 season presents opportunities to hear well-known and less familiar music, sung with warmth and conviction.
Johannes Brahms opens the season for us, as we pair his passionate and virtuosic E Minor Cello Sonata, performed by our Music Director Graham Walker, with the aching and consolatory German Requiem, accompanied by renowned local duet pianists Maurice and Thanea Hodges.
A world première of Stephen Dodgson’s A Christmas Collection weaves its narrative through our Christmas concert. Alongside the quirky and imaginative Dodgson, we present familiar carols by Carl Rutti, Mack Wilberg and John Rutter, in a concert guaranteed to provide festive good cheer.
Returning once again to the Church of Our Lady & the English Martyrs, we offer two substantial pieces perfect for Lent and Passiontide in March. Frank Martin’s epic Mass for Double Choir combines brilliance and exuberance with profound and heartfelt yearning, while Pergolesi’s most celebrated sacred work, his Stabat Mater, is presented in its version for full choir, accompanied by string quartet.
Spanish folksongs, accompanied by guitar, open our summer concerts, and we explore settings of Shakespeare’s words by Vaughan Williams and others in the second half. We are delighted to continue our commitment to new music in a commissioned work from Tim Watts to be performed in this final concert.
After a successful two-year partnership with CPSL Mind, we are thrilled to announce Sing Inside as our new Charity Partner. Through this partnership, we hope to raise awareness of their much-valued work in promoting and supporting the use of music and performing arts as a means of community-building for all who work and live within the prison setting.
We look forward to welcoming you to our concerts.
Members of the public can help us make new music by contributing to our New Music Fund or by buying shares in specific new commissions through our New Cambridge Songs Scheme.
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'I really enjoyed the "special seminar" today. I nearly didn’t come as I thought I was too busy, but it was well worth the time spent and a very enjoyable break in the normal working day!'
'It was beautiful! Thanks for bringing them here!'
- Comments following our concert at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden