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18th December 2025

Wiltshire Music Centre

7:00pm

The Choir return to Wiltshire Music Centre with their new Christmas programme: ‘Christmas with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge’, featuring a selection of beloved choral Christmas music spanning 9 centuries.

 

The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

Evie Perfect | piano

Jacob Costard | piano

Graham Ross | conductor

Thursday 18th December 2025, 7pm

19th December 2025

La Ferme du Biéreau

8:30pm

The Choir return to Louvain, Belgium to collaborate with the choir of UCLouvain and present ‘Christmas with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge’.

 

The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

The Choir of L’Université catholique de Louvain

Graham Ross | conductor

19th December 2025, 8.30pm

La Ferme du Biéreau, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Social Media

  • 🎄 Today’s the day! We’re forward to performing to a completely sold out audience tonight at London’s @sinfoniasmithsq with The Dmitri Ensemble and @MrGrahamRoss, with our festive programme, “A John Rutter Christmas”, including a guest appearance by the composer! 
📻 The concert will be also recorded for broadcast on @classicfm on Christmas Eve at 5pm GMT. 

💿 The Christmas Edition of our @harmoniamundi_inter album ‘John Rutter: A Clare College Celebration’ is now released worldwide!
🎧 lnk.to/RutterChristmas 

🎥 Watch our performance of @johnrutter.composer Nativity Carol on the @gramophonemagazine website: 👉 https://www.gramophone.co.uk/news/article/video-of-the-day-clare-college-perform-rutter-s-nativity-carol
  • 📣 Very last few tickets remaining for our concerts next week in Belgium and Netherlands with @mrgrahamross! 

🗓️ Fri 19.12, 20:30 @fermedubiereau, Louvain-la-Neuve 🇧🇪 (https://www.laferme.be/event/christmas-with-the-choir-of-clare-college-cambridge-100/register)

🗓️ Sat 20.12, 19:30 Sint-Catharinakerk, Heusden 🇳🇱 (https://heusdenvestingklassiek.nl/kerstconcert/)

🗓️ Sun 21.12, 11:00 @concertgebouw, Amsterdam 🇳🇱 (https://www.concertgebouw.nl/en/concerts/7407988-christmas-with-choir-of-clare-college-cambridge)
  • 📣 📻 Radio announcements! All our forthcoming concerts at @sinfoniasmithsq @olemcambridge @wiltshiremusic and @concertgebouw are now fully sold out 😊
But for those who missed out on tickets, we’ll be performing live on @bbcradio3 In Tune with @mrgrahamross at BBC Broadcasting House on 17 December at 5pm, presented by @petroc_trelawny, and our concert this week at @sinfoniasmithsq with The Dmitri Ensemble celebrating @johnrutter.composer will be broadcast on @classicfm on Christmas Eve at 5pm, hosted by @zebsoanes. The perfect start to Christmas!

🎄 📻
  • 🎥 💿 One week to go until the deluxe Christmas Edition of our new album ‘John Rutter: A Clare College Celebration’, is released! Stream / Download / Listen: lnk.to/RutterChristmas

John Rutter: Shepherd’s Pipe Carol
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
The Dmitri Ensemble
Graham Ross, conductor
  • 🙏 The closing Amen of our performance of Handel’s Messiah last night with the magnificent @orchestraoftheageenlightenment and soloists @marycbevan @hugh.cutting @jameswaytenor JonathanBrown, conducted by @mrgrahamross. Thank you to all who came!

#ClareCollege #ClareChoir #Messiah
  • “Ther is no rose of swych vertu as is the rose that bare Jhesu;
Alleluia.”

The opening of the beautiful anonymous 15th century carol, as performed at our Advent Carol Service this weekend.

🎥 Watch the whole-service again here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS7FmoOa_1g

The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Graham Ross, conductor
  • 🕯️ Advent Carol Service from the Chapel of Clare College, Cambridge
Sunday 30 November 2025, 6pm GMT

The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Graham Ross, conductor
Evie Perfect, Sir William McKie Senior Organ Scholar
Jacob Costard Junior Organ Scholar

📖 Order of Service, with all texts and translations, in link above and here: https://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2025-11/Advent%20Carol%20Service%202025.pdf

🎥 LiveStreamed on YouTube and available after: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS7FmoOa_1g
  • A Clare College Christmas
Saturday 6 December 2025, 4pm
Tickets £10, which includes a glass of mulled wine! 🎄🍷 
Chapel of Clare College, Cambridge

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Graham Ross, conductor 

🎫 https://www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/concert/a-clare-college-christmas/
  • 9️⃣ days to go! 🎺 Handel MESSIAH in concert next week, Tuesday 2 December, 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge. Tickets £10-£30 https://www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/concert/messiah-clare-college-choir/

Choir of Clare College Cambridge
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Graham Ross | conductor
Mary Bevan | soprano
Hugh Cutting | countertenor
James Way | tenor
Jonathan Brown | bass

@choirofclarecollege @orchestraoftheageenlightenment @mrgrahamross @marycbevan @hugh.cutting @jameswaytenor @westroadconcerthall @cambridgeuniversity @camunicmp #Handel #Messiah #concert

Tonight the @ClareChoir and @mrgrahamross perform a Christmas concert at @SinfoniaSmithSq http://sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/christmas-with-the-choir-of-clare-college-cambridge
Next week:
17th BBC Radio 3 In Tune
18th Wiltshire Music Centre
19th Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
20th Heusden, Netherlands
21st Concertgebouw Amsterdam (broadcast live)

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