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26th March 2026

Easter break

12:00am

Chapel Services have now concluded following the end of the Lent Term. They resume on Thursday 23rd April – further information on service timings and music can be found here: Chapel Services | The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

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  • One month to go!! Join us for what is possibly the largest assembled group to date of Clare musicians past and present 😊 Celebrating 700 years of Clare College HAYDN The Creation Massed alumni of Clare College Philippa Boyle, soprano Simon Wall, tenor Ed Ballard, bass Graham Ross, conductor Sunday 10 May 2026, 5.15pm West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge Tickets £20 (£10 students) from ADC Box Office https://www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/concert/the-creation/
  • 📣 @cambridgesummermusic 2026 Programme released today! We’re much looking forward to our concert on 4 July 2026 in the magnificent @olemcambridge in collaboration with Coro Clarière of @conservatorio_svizzeraitaliana from Lugano, Switzerland, with a once-in-a-lifetime programme of two polychoral Renaissance masterpieces: Thomas Tallis’s 40-part Spem in alium, and Alessandro Striggio’s 40-part Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno - complete with its huge 60-part Agnus Dei! 🗓️ General booking opens 26 April 🎫 Tickets: https://cambridgesummermusic.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173678144
  • Lent Term completed! What an amazing start to our 700th anniversary it has been. Our celebrations re-start next month when we sing Choral Evensong at @westminsterabbeylondon on Monday 27 April at 5pm, followed by the start of Easter Term back at @clarecollege. Good luck to all those award-holders auditioning for the Choir this coming week at the Choral Trials! Wishing all our friends and followers a happy Easter break.
  • 📣 Job Vacancies with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge for the 2026-2027 academic year Applications now open for the role of Choir Administrator, and the role of Lay Clerk and Librarian, with the internationally-renowned mixed-voice Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, directed by Graham Ross. 🔹 Choir Administrator (https://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/about/careers/current-vacancies/choir-administrator) 🔹 Lay Clerk and Choir Librarian (https://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/about/careers/current-vacancies/lay-clerkship-and-choir-librarian) 🗓️ Closing date for entries: 30 April 2026 @choirofclarecollege @clarecollege
  • ➡️➡️ Looking Forwards, Reaching Farther What a term this has been! This coming Sunday, the final installment of our musical celebrations of @clarecollege’s 700th anniversary, with the world première of a major new commission by @nicomuhly at Choral Evensong, a recital by @hdieneswilliamssoprano and @gregmay2001, and featured works by recent Clare composers @mrgrahamross @l.zucchi47 @freya_waley_cohen @martincsuckling and @heloisewerner Join us from 5.25pm onwards 🕯️@chapelofclarecollege or 🎥 LiveStreamed on @youtube #Clare700 #ClareCollege #ChoirofClareCollege #LookingForwards #21stcentury
  • 📣 Tomorrow! Our celebration of Benjamin Britten as part of our 700th anniversary series 🎶 Instrumentalists from across @cambridgeuniversity and @choirofclarecollege perform three of Britten’s masterpieces, marking 50 years after the composer’s death in 1976. His first published work, Sinfonietta, and his setting of Christopher Smart’s extraordinary poem Rejoice in the Lamb, preface a performance of his 1948 cantata on the legendary life of St Nicolas. With tenor Andrew Kennedy and conductor @mrgrahamross. 🎫 Final few tickets remaining: https://www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/concert/britten-st-nicolas/
  • Siegfried Sassoon, William Denis Browne, Herbert Howells, Graham Ross and Giles Swayne: a real musical feast this Sunday as our @clarecollege 700th anniversary celebrations reach the 20th century. Join us from 5.25pm onwards, LiveStreamed online on @youtube or in person at @chapelofclarecollege #Clare700 #ChoirofClareCollege #ClareCollege #SiegfriedSassoon #Clare
  • 📣 Change of artist Due to leg injuries, Andrew Staples has sadly had to withdraw from our concert performance of Britten St Nicolas next Tuesday. We all wish him a swift recovery. We are delighted to welcome tenor Andrew Kennedy to perform with us. Andrew studied at King’s College, Cambridge and the Royal College of Music in London, was a member of the Young Artists Programme at Covent Garden and a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. He won the Rosenblatt Recital Prize in the 2005 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and was awarded a Borletti Trust Award and the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artists Award in 2006. His 2013 recording of Saint Nicolas received rave reviews: “Kennedy is a gripping Nicolas, palpably a man of practical Christian action, though careful not to over-project operatically...he has a storyteller’s subtlety and sensitivity”. Tuesday 10 March, 7.45pm Great Hall, Clare College, Cambridge Andrew Kennedy, tenor Choir of Clare College, Cambridge Instrumentalists from across Cambridge University 🎫 Final tickets: https://www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/concert/britten-st-nicolas/
  • At our services this week we remember and give thanks for the life of Robert Rice, who died on Thursday. Berty, as he was known, was appointed to Clare as a singing teacher in 2011. Over fifteen years he taught countless Choral Scholars at Clare, continuing with many of them after their graduation as part of his flourishing private teaching practice in London. A magnificent and highly-respected teacher, he shared his extensive knowledge, expertise and talents with everyone who was fortunate to study with him. His last days were spent teaching his students at Clare and other other Colleges in Cambridge. Director of Music Graham Ross writes: “To my mind, Berty embodied everything that it means to teach: the generous imparting of knowledge, a bespoke care and attention to every individual in his roster, an expectation of excellence combined with an easy-going approach, and a dedicated nurturing that always saw the long game and was never ever about him. He was also, naturally, hugely fun company for us all at so many sun-kissed end of year dinners. I am so grateful for having known him, and that hundreds of my students past and present got to benefit from his brilliance, dedication, knowledge, and kindness. We will all miss him so much.” We are hugely saddened at the loss of such a wonderful teacher, colleague, and friend. Rest in peace, Berty.

clarechoir Clare College Choir @clarechoir ·
21 Mar

Lent Term completed! What an amazing start to our 700th anniversary it has been.

Our celebrations restart next month when we sing Choral Evensong at @wabbey on Mon 27 April at 5pm, followed by the start of Easter Term back at @ClareCollege.

Wishing all a very happy Easter.

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