Choir of New College Oxford
Choir of New College Oxford
The Choir of New College Oxford, composed of adult singers and boy trebles, is one of the leading choral ensembles in the world, celebrated for its distinctive and stylish performance of music from five centuries. You can hear the choir in choral services live in New College Chapel, Oxford, and via webcasts, on concert tours and on its 100+ recordings. The choir is directed by Robert Quinney.
More About UsChoir of New College Oxford
The Choir of New College Oxford, composed of adult singers and boy trebles, is one of the leading choral ensembles in the world, celebrated for its distinctive and stylish performance of music from five centuries. You can hear the choir in choral services live in New College Chapel, Oxford, and via webcasts, on concert tours and on its 100+ recordings. The choir is directed by Robert Quinney.
More About UsThe Choral Foundations in Concert - Oxford Town Hall on 1st July 2025
The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford The Choir of New College, Oxford Frideswide Voices and Instruments of Time and Truth
Find out moreThe choirs of St Albans Cathedral, New College Oxford and Temple Church - 14th July 2025
The Organ Festival's hugely popular Three Choirs concert returns! Tickets on sale. Presented by the St Albans International Organ Festival.
Find out moreBoys on Tour!
The remainder of 2025, and early 2026, promises to be a very exciting time for the New College Choristers, with tours scheduled to Sweden (July 2025), Versailles (November 2025), China over the New Year and even more potential opportunities for next year! We will keep you posted with tour updates and news of where you can see them performing abroad, should you be lucky enough to do so.
Find out moreRobert Quinney plays Bach
On Tuesday 21 January Robert Quinney continues his exploration of Bach's Clavier-Ubung - Bach's 'dazzingly inventive' keyboard practice manual. 8.45pm in New College Chapel - free entry
Find out moreWelcome to our new Assistant Organist
The choir is delighted to welcome George Herbert, who takes up the post of Assistant Organist at the beginning of September. Follows the links to learn more about George's career.
Find out moreNew Crib Figures in Chapel
The chapel has welcomed beautiful new Crib Figures, specially created by Lucy Ballard, one of the alto lay clerks who is also an accomplished ceramicist. Read the full story from Lucy herself ....
Find out moreChoral award applications
Choral award applications for entry in 2025 have now closed. But any school student interested in a choral scholarship is warmly encouraged to attend one of our Sixth Form Evensongs. Follow the links to find out more.
Find out moreNew College: Commissions & Premieres
Linn Records CKD 720
RELEASE DATE: 23/06/2023
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The music composed for New College Choir in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries provides a compelling historical tour of changing musical styles and liturgical practices. On this disc we survey New College commissions from the 1920s to the 2020s, beginning with William Harris’s evergreen Faire is the heaven, composed while he was Organist of New College, and ending with two recent commissions from Caitlin Harrison and Deborah Pritchard. The disc is built round three settings of the Evensong canticles, by Paul Drayton, Herbert Howells, and Deborah Pritchard. For Kenneth Leighton’s heart-wrenching cantata Crucifixus pro nobis, written in 1961, the choir is joined by tenor Nick Pritchard, a former academical clerk at New College.