Next Performances

16th June 2026

Choral Evensong

6:15pm

VOLUNTARY  Tomkins A Sad Pavan for these distracted times
INTROIT  Simon Hall (Clare 2022) Lighten our darkness
RESPONSES  Joshua Pacey
PSALM  48 (Walmisley)
READINGS  John XXI: 1-6; 7-14
CANTICLES  Weelkes Magnificat ‘for trebles’  Josquin des Pres Nunc dimittis
ANTHEM  Vinders O mors inevitabilis
HYMN  346 (Richmond)
VOLUNTARY  Weelkes Voluntary

17th June 2026

Evensong, BBC Radio 3 broadcast

3:00pm

INTROIT  Sir John Rutter (Clare 1964) A Ukrainian Prayer
RESPONSES  Joshua Pacey (Clare 2013)
PSALM  89 (Battishill; Russell; Battishill; Russell)
READINGS  Judges VI: 1-16; Matthew V: 13-24
CANTICLES  Howells Westminster Service
ANTHEM  Nico Muhly Reaching Farther
HYMN  417 (Nun danket)
VOLUNTARY  Hovland Toccata ‘ Nu la oss takke Gud’

Social Media

  • At tonight’s 6pm Choral Evensong, our final Sunday of the academic year, we give the first complete performance of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis by @heloisewerner (Clare 2010), commissioned by @mrgrahamross and @choirofclarecollege. The service also includes @carolineadelaideshaw’s ‘…and the swallow…’, Responses by @matthewm76, and Walton’s ‘The Twelve’, and is preceded by a 5.25pm organ recital by @eperfect_organist. 🕯️ All welcome, 6pm @chapelofclarecollege, or 🎥 livestreamed on our @youtube channel. #Clare #ClareMusic #Clare700 #ChoralEvensong #premiere
  • 📻 Next week on @bbcradio3 we broadcast Choral Evensong live from @chapelofclarecollege, with ‘A Ukrainian Prayer’ by former @clarecollege Director of Music @johnrutter.composer, Responses by Clare alumnus @joshua.pacey, the Westminster Service by Herbert Howells (who was commissioned in 1976 for the College’s then 650th anniversary), and the first broadcast of ‘Reaching Farther’ by @nicomuhly commissioned for the College’s 700th anniversary this year. With Organ Scholars @eperfect_organist and @j.costard24, directed by @mrgrahamross. BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong Wednesday 17 June, 3pm Broadcast live from the Chapel of Clare College, Cambridge #Clare #Clare700 #ClareChoir #ChoralEvensong #broadcast @choirofclarecollege
  • One foot in Eden still, I stand Music by Nicholas Maw (1935-2009) Words by Edwin Muir (1887-1959) The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, directed by Graham Ross at Choral Evensong in the Chapel of Clare College, Cambridge on 7 June 2026 Maria Teresa Maddison, soprano Isabella Theodosius, alto Daniel Livermore, tenor Thomas Alban, bass 🎥 Watch the full performance and service on our YouTube channel, which contains archive of all our LiveStreamed services. www.choirofclarecollege.com @clarecollege @choirofclarecollege @mrgrahamross #choral #evensong #singing #onefootineden
  • 🎶 For the beauty of the earth 🌎 😊 We enjoyed welcoming the children’s Choir of @stlukesandchristchurchchelsea earlier this week in Chapel who joined us for a joint Choral Evensong to perform Healey Willan, Stanford Canticles in B flat, and ‘For the beauty of the earth’ by former @clarecollege Director of Music @johnrutter.composer (Clare 1964). They managed to fit in some time for pizza and punting too! #ChoralEvensong #Clare #juniorchoir #education #MusicatClare
  • 👏 O clap your hands! It’s been wonderful to have had four of the composers featured in our services this week with us in person! 📸 On Compline, we performed Kate Sagovsky (@tunesandspokes)’s ‘Rest,’ at Compline, which sets words by 98-year old Clare English Fellow Terry Moore. We welcomed back former Clare Choir Lay Clerk @dom.w23 Dominic Wallis as soloist, and were delighted to have both Terry’s wife Chris and Kate’s Father-in-law Nicholas Sagovsky (former Dean of Clare and Canon Theologian at Westminster Abbey) with us too. 📸 At Thursday’s Choral Evensong we welcomed @laurasheils4 from Dublin as we performed her anthem ‘Regina Caeli’, and @joforbesmusic whose Preces and Responses we have been singing this week. 📸 At tonight’s Choral Evensong we were delighted to be joined again by @mcdowall.cecilia as we performed her ‘O clap your hands Reimagined’ as our anthem. It’s always exciting to perform some of the latest music that’s being added to the canon, and even more special when its composers are with us in person! 🎥 Watch tonight’s service again on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/DAO5G77Wdfo?si=s4eO-RgOwORq5xub @mrgrahamross @choirofclarecollege @clarecollege @chapelofclarecollege #MusicatClare
  • What an incredible weekend we had celebrating 700 years of @clarecollege! More than 150 Clare musicians past and present on one stage together to perform Haydn’s Creation, with soloists @philippa.boyle @simonthetenor @edbllrd, conducted by @mrgrahamross. Instrumentalists, including those from @bbcsymphonyorchestra @londonmozartplayers @brittensinfonia1 @auroraorchestra @orchestraoftheageenlightenment (to name but a few) who all began their journeys at Clare, formed a stellar orchestra to support a 120-strong chorus of @choirofclarecollege alumni and current Choral Scholars. The weekend included the annual Clare Choir Alumni Association Dinner in Great Hall, beginning with a new Grace written for the occasion by Graham Ross. A thrilling highlight of our year-long celebrations. Our eighth century begins! #Clare #Clare700 #ClareMusic #ClareChoirAlumniAssociation #Creation
  • Join us at 8.45am tomorrow (Thursday) as we perform Thomas Weelkes’ ‘All people, clap your hands’ to greet Ascension Day morning, performed (for the first time in 6 years) outdoors in a blissfully-scaffolding-free Old Court! @clarecollege #AscensionDay
  • 🎫 Last few tickets!! Haydn’s The Creation, this coming Sunday 10 May at 5.15pm in @westroadconcerthall in Cambridge, performed by a massed choir and orchestra comprised of more than 150 @clarecollege and @choirofclarecollege alumni - probably the largest assembled group of Clare musicians past and present, with soloists @philippa.boyle @simonthetenor and @edbllrd, conducted by @mrgrahamross. Final tickets (£20, £10 students): https://www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/concert/the-creation/ #haydn #creation #Clare700 #choiralumni #concert
  • Drinks in the Scholars’ Garden last night after our Choral Evensong of polychoral works by Palestrina, Lassus, Howells and Monteverdi 👌🏻 Join us this Easter Term for a wonderful series of choral services, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays: 📖 https://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2026-04/Easter%20Termcard%202026.pdf

clarechoir Clare College Choir @clarechoir ·
14 Jun

6pm tonight, the first complete performance of the Magnificat & Nunc dimittis by @Heloise_Werner (Clare 2010), commissioned by @mrgrahamross and @ClareChoir. Also Caroline Shaw, @matthewm76, and Walton’s ‘The Twelve’

All welcome, 6pm @ClareChapel, or 🎥 on our @youtube channel.

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