Upcoming Concerts
We hope the wide range of music across the year and fantastic locations in and around Cambridge will tempt you to come and hear us! Click on the ticket prices links to book individual tickets.
Following the Star: Carols for Choir and Audience
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James Potter (conductor)
with Will Mason (organ)
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Visions of Paradise: Music of Remembrance and Consolation
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James Potter (conductor)
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Rise, Heart: Mystical Songs
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Conductor: James Potter
with Will Mason (organ) John Donne, Richard Crashaw, George Herbert – between them they represented a strand of poetry which became known as Metaphysical: a style at once profoundly spiritual, philosophical, and wryly humorous. Composers have flocked to set their poetry, which inspired some of their finest works: Vaughan Williams’ magisterial, moving Five mystical songs, Judith Weir’s haunting Vertue, and Gerald Finzi’s choral masterpiece Lo, the full, final sacrifice. This programme allows listeners to bask in the perfect union of words and music.
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Saturday 20 June 2026, 7.30pm
All Saints’ Church, Great Chesterford CB10 1NP Tickets: £15 | Students £7, with refreshments included Available from 01799 530098, [email protected] or on the door. Saturday 27 June 2026, 7.30pm
Little St Mary’s Church, Cambridge CB2 1QG Tickets: £18 | Students £8 | Under 18s free Available online from Ticketsource or on the door. |
Tickets to the concerts above are offered free of charge to companions of anyone with a long-term disability.
Mendelssohn's Elijah with Harlow Chorus
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Conductor: James Potter
with Harlow Chorus, Edward Grint (bass), Helena Moore (soprano) and British Sinfonietta New Cambridge Singers join Harlow Chorus to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah.
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Saturday 11 July 2026, 7.30pm
Saffron Hall, Audley End Road, Saffron Walden CB11 4UH Tickets: £21/£16 | Under 25s half price Available online from Saffron Hall or on the door. |
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COMING UP NEXT SEASON (2026/27)Celebrating Our 40th Anniversary
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Scarlatti: Stabat Mater and the music of seventeenth century Rome
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Conductor: James Potter
Composers working in the churches and chapels of Rome in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries developed a rich, highly expressive style which brought liturgical music to vivid life. Chief among them was Domenico Scarlatti, whose Stabat mater was written for ten different voice-parts, with movements ranging from the lusciously lyrical to the vivaciously virtuosic. Punchy, ornate, and beautiful, it is a wonderful repertoire to explore. The concert is accompanied by the period-appropriate pairing of organ and theorbo, the baroque archlute.
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Saturday 31 October 2026, 7.30pm
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Linton CB21 4JX Tickets: £16 | Students £8 Available from [email protected] |
Saturday 7 November 2026, 7.30pm
Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1JR Tickets: £18 | Students £8 | Under 18s free |
Christmas Choral Jazz: Jazz-inspired music for choir, and audience carols
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Conductor: James Potter
For this very special festive concert, New Cambridge Singers embrace their jazzy side. Christmas carols familiar and unfamiliar, including many arrangements for choir and jazz trio. Toe-tapping, soulful, and festively comforting all at the same time.
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Thursday 17 December 2026, 8.00pm
Jesus College Chapel, Jesus Lane, Cambridge CB5 8BL Tickets: £18 | Students £8 |
Saturday 19 December 2026, 7.30pm
All Saints Church, Cottenham CB24 8SA |
Bach: The Magic of Counterpoint
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Conductor: James Potter
Bach’s motets feel like a summing-up of his craft – in their poise, their theological nous, and their absolute mastery of counterpoint, that rarified language of interlocking musical lines. In this programme, two of Bach’s mighty motets sit alongside music inspired by Bach’s contrapuntal wizardry, from Brahms in the 19th century, to Kenneth Leighton and Villa Lobos in the 20th, not to mention Glenn Gould’s own witty tribute to the fugue!
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Saturday 6 March 2027, 7.30pm
Little St Mary’s Church, Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1QG Tickets: £18 | Students £8 | Under 18s free |
Saturday 13 March 2027, 7.30pm
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Fen Ditton CB5 8ST |
Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610
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Conductor: James Potter
Monteverdi’s collection of music for Vespers, published in 1610, is justly one of his most famous and beloved works. An immensely varied collection of solos and motets, it constantly demonstrates the composer’s mastery over both the ‘old style’ of polyphony and the new concertato style which was taking Venice by storm. An outstanding, opulent work which was on the cutting edge of the very beginning of the Baroque.
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Saturday 5 June 2027, 7.30pm
Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1JR
Tickets: £20 | Students £8 | Under 18s free
Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1JR
Tickets: £20 | Students £8 | Under 18s free