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.
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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 UsNew Crib Figures in Chapel
On Tuesday at Evensong the choir will sing carols for the blessing of the Christmas Tree, as well as our 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 moreRobert Quinney plays Bach
Robert Quinney launches a year of Bach at New College with the first of a three-part exploration of the Clavier-Ubung - Bach's 'dazzingly inventive' keyboard practice manual. Tuesday 12 November at 9.00pm in New College Chapel
Find out moreBach at New College 2024 - 2025
Robert Quinney & New College Choir put Bach at the heart of the next year. Concerts, services and lecture recitals over 2024 and 2025 explore Bach's music, culminating in a special performance in the Sheldonian Theatre to mark the Bodleian Library's acquisition of an autograph MS of Cantata 128.
Find out moreJames Burton premiere at Evensong on 9 November at 5.45pm
A new anthem will receive its premiere at Evensong on Saturday 9 November. Commissioned by the Edmund Trust in memory of Edmund Bridges, the anthem is a setting of words by Hildegard of Bingen set to music by Jamie Burton.
Find out moreBach, Christmas Oratorio
New College Choir joins Instruments of Time & Truth on Tuesday 17 December at 6.30pm in the University Church for the annual performance of Bach's setting of the Christmas story. Tickets are now on sale.
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 moreMichaelmas Term Organ Recitals
Thursdays at 1.15pm: live or live-streamed. Featuring the New College organists and visiting recitalists. Entry via main, Holywell Street, college entrance.
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.