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 UsChoral services finish for this year
Choral services in chapel have now finished for this academic year. They will resume with Evensong on Friday 11 October.
Find out moreChoral award applications are now open!
Choral award applications are now open on the University of Oxford website! Student singers inspired by the University of Oxford's recent Choral & Organ Award open day can now start applying. Find out more - and links to the online application form.
Find out morelatest CD
New College: Commissions & Premieres celebrates the choir's commitment to new music over the last century.
Find out moreSupporting New College Choir
If you have enjoyed our live-streamed services, concerts and recordings, and would like to support the work of the choir, we would be most grateful.
Find out moreEvensong in memoriam Sir David Lumsden
On Saturday 4 May the choir celebrated the memory of Sir David Lumsden, former Organist of New College. The choir sang Byrd's Great Service and Harris, Fair is the heaven.
Find out moreJames MacMillan premiere
The choir's new commission, When One Man Dies, a setting of John Donne by Sir James MacMillan, will be premiered at Evensong on Saturday 24 June.
Find out moreBach, St John Passion
Sunday 17 March at 5.00pm. New College Choir with Instruments of Time & Truth, directed by Robert Quinney. Waiting list for tickets.
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.