Concerts & Broadcasts
The choir gives a number of concerts both in the UK and abroad each year, making appearances in prestigious festivals such as the Spitalfields Festival in London; as well as performing in churches, cathedrals and halls.
2022
Fridays at Five - Lent Term Organ Recitals
Join us on YouTube on Fridays at 5pm for a series of live recitals from Caius chapel.
21 January ~ Tammas Slater Programme YouTube
28 January ~ Kyoko Canaway Programme YouTube
4 February ~ Davon Halim Programme YouTube
11 February ~ Luca Myers Programme YouTube
18 February ~ Michael Stephens-Jones Programme YouTube
25 February ~ Christopher Too Programme YouTube
4 March ~ James Lancelot Programme YouTube
11 March ~ Arthur Pallecaros Programme YouTube
2021
Wednesday 8 December, 4pm
Vespers for the Immaculate Conception
BBC Radio 3 live broadcast from Buckfast Abbey
Repeated on Sunday 12 December
Fridays at Five - Michaelmas Term Organ Recitals
Join us on YouTube or Facebook on Fridays at 5pm for a series of live recitals from Caius chapel.
8 October ~ Kyoko Canaway Programme
15 October ~ Tammas Slater Programme YouTube
22 October ~ George Gillow Programme
29 October - Mark Englander Programme
5 November ~ Alex Wallace Programme YouTube
12 November ~ Organs Duets (Caius Organ Scholars) Programme YouTube
19 November ~ Arthur Pallecaros Programme YouTube
26 November ~ Colin Millington Programme YouTube
Fridays at Five - Easter Term Organ Recitals at Caius
30 April ~ Sarah MacDonald Programme YouTube Facebook
7 May ~ Tammas Slater Programme YouTube Facebook
14 May ~ Luke Fitzgerald Programme YouTube Facebook
21 May ~ Francesca Massey Programme YouTube Facebook
28 May ~ Paul Plummer Programme YouTube Facebook
4 June ~ Benjamin Nicholas Programme YouTube Facebook
11 June ~ Dónal McCann Programme YouTube Facebook
18 June ~ Sarah Baldock Programme YouTube Facebook
Fridays at Five - Lent Term Organ Recitals at Caius
5 February ~ Matthew Martin programme Facebook link YouTube link
12 February ~ Martin Baker programme Facebook link YouTube link
19 February ~ Richard Pinel programme Facebook link YouTube link
26 February ~ Tammas Slater programme Facebook link YouTube link
5 March ~ Malcolm Smith programme Facebook link YouTube link
12 March ~ Anne Page programme YouTube link
19 March ~ Daniel Hyde programme YouTube link
2020
Saturday 14 March, 7.30pm
'Sanctuary of the Soul'
A concert of seasonal music and organ solos at St Mary's Church, Bourne St, London SW1W 8JJ
2019
Norfolk Concert Tour
Saturday 29 June, 7 pm St Mary's Church, Snettisham, Norfolk
Sunday 30 June, 10.30 am Joint Benefice Service at St Mary's, Snettisham
Monday 1 July, 7 pm Stoke Ferry Church
Wednesday 3 July, 7.30 pm St Andrew and St Peter's Church, Blofield
Thursday 4 July, 7.30 pm St Nicholas' Church, Dereham
The first half of the concerts in Snettisham and Blofield is 'A musical portrait of William Byrd' and includes sacred and secular works, and organ solos. 'Tales of the Old Testament' follow in the second half, featuring The Death of Samson (from Handel's oratorio Samson) and Elijah and the Prophets of Baal (from Mendelssohn's Elijah).
In Stoke Ferry and Dereham the choir will be joined by guitarist David Cotter to perform part of the Romancero Gitano (Gypsy ballads) by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. The programme also includes Missa Bell' Amfitrit' altera by Orlando di Lasso and a selection of motets and part songs.
Thursday 11 April, 7.30 pm
Concert in Domkirche St Eberhard, Stuttgart
Wednesday 10 April, 7.30 pm
Concert with chamber choir of The University of Music, Mannheim in the Epiphaniaskirche
Saturday 2 March, 7.30 pm
Concert in Worksop College Chapel
The programme will feature music with strong continental connections, and the second half of the concert will feature female composers from Ethel Smyth to the present. More information and tickets available here
Saturday 2 February, 7 pm
Supersize Polyphony 360 with the Armonico Consort
The Lighthouse, Poole
Supersize Polyphony 360 is a celebration of large-scale works from the 16th century, performed surrounding the audience. The unique programme features epic motets, such as Tallis’ Spem in Alium and Striggio’s Ecce Beatam Lucem, alongside the rarely performed 60 part Missa Ecco Si Beato Giorno. Interspersed with the serene beauty of ethereal chants by Hildegard of Bingen and other works from the period, it is an evening of such magnitude and polyphonic drama that cannot be missed. More information and tickets available here
2018
Thursday 6 December, 8 pm
Cambridge Early Music presents 'The Caius to a Baroque Christmas'
Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge
Caius Choir will be joined by some of the country’s best up-and-coming period instrumentalists to perform Charpentier’s Christmas masterpiece, based on popular folk noëls of the 17th century. This will be complemented by works by some of the North German Baroque school of composers, including Buxtehude, Schütz, and Weckmann.
Tickets are available here
Caius Consort French Christmas Tour
A group of Caius Choir members will be performing a series of concerts in Paris and Bergerac to promote their latest CD release Cantique de Noël
Friday 14 December, 6 pm
Joint concert with the Maîtrise de Paris in the Salle d'Orgue, Conservatoire à rayonnement regionale, 14 Rue de Madrid, Paris
Saturday 15 December, 8 pm
Concert in Église Saint-Pierre de Chaillot, 31 avenue Marceau, Paris. More information can be found on the poster
Sunday 16 December, 10.30 am
Service at the Temple du Saint-Esprit, 5, Rue Roquépine, Paris
Monday 17 December. 8 pm
Concert in Église Ste Foy la Grande
Wednesday 19 December, 8.30 pm
Concert in Église St Jacques, Bergerac
Friday 30 November, 7.30 pm
Caius Choir Alumni Christmas Concert
St George's Church, hanover Square London
In addition to excerpts from the choir’s new Christmas CD ‘Cantique de Noël’ (French music for Christmas from Berlioz to Debussy), which will be on sale, the programme will include carols for all to sing and carols by two Caian composers, Paul Fincham and Peter Vizard. Wine and mince pies will be served during the interval.
Tickets available here
Supersize Polyphony 360 Tour with the Armonico Consort
Supersize Polyphony 360 is a celebration of large-scale works from the 16th century, performed surrounding the audience. The unique programme features epic motets, such as Tallis’ Spem in Alium and Striggio’s Ecce Beatam Lucem, alongside the rarely performed 60 part Missa Ecco Si Beato Giorno. Interspersed with the serene beauty of ethereal chants by Hildegard of Bingen and other works from the period, it is an evening of such magnitude and polyphonic drama that cannot be missed.
Tickets for all of the concerts listed below are available here.
Friday 22 June, 7.30pm ~ Thaxted Festival, Thaxted
Sunday 1 July, 7.30pm ~ Lighthouse, Poole
Tuesday 3 July ~ Concert in Great Bedwyn (see below)
Thursday 5 July, 7.30pm ~ Malvern Theatres, Malvern
Friday 6 July, 7.30pm ~ Coventry Cathedral, Coventry
Saturday 7 July, 7.30pm ~ The Anvil, Basingstoke
Thursday 12 July, 7.30pm ~ The Church of Our Lady and English Martyrs, Cambridge
Friday 13 - Sunday 15 July ~ trip to Vienna (see below)
Tuesday 17 July, 7.30pm ~ Petworth Festival, Petworth
Tuesday 3 July, 7pm
Faure's Requiem & Music for a Summer's Evening
St Mary's Church, Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire
Tickets from £10 to £20 including a free glass of Prosecco
Vienna
Saturday 14 July
3pm Recital in Peterskirche, Petersplatz
Programme includes Missa Pange lingua Josquin des Prez and music by Marenzio and Celemns non Papa.
Admission Free
6pm Concert in Christ Church, Jauresgasse
A varied programme of British choral music by Wood and Stanford, works by Mozart and Haydn plus a selection of British Folksongs and madrigals.
Retiring collection
Sunday 15 July, 9.30am
Mass in Stephansdom
William Byrd Mass for four voices
Holy Week Concerts in Spain
Monteverdi’s famous setting of the Psalm Beatus vir opens this programme of music for soloists, choir and string trio. Kerll’s Missa in fletu is one of the most powerful settings of the Mass text from the 17th century with some extreme chromaticism; it was written while the composed himself was besieged in Vienna. Leo’s Miserere is a complete setting of the famous Lenten Psalm in which the composer pays tribute to the Palestrina style of sacred vocal music, though enriched with early 18th-century harmonies. Each concert concludes with Carissimi’s celebrated oratorio Jephte, in the version with violins, telling the tragic tale from the Old Testament.
Saturday 24 March, 7.30pm ~ Iglesia de la Sangre, Liria, Valencia
Sunday 25 March, 8.00pm ~ Iglesia del Buen Suceso - Santa Ana, Sagunto, Valencia
Monday 26 March, 8.00pm ~ Iglesia de Santiago, Villena, Alicante
Wednesday 28 March, 8.30pm ~ Iglesia de Santa Maria, Brihuega, Guadalajara
2017
A Ceremony of Carols
Britten's magical collection of music for upper voices and harp is the centrepiece of this varied programme of music for Advent and Christmas.
Monday 18 December, 8 pm
City Hall Kong
Tickets available here
Tuesday 19 December, 7.30 pm
Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore
Tickets available here
Sunday 25 June, 7.30 pm
Voices of London Festival 2017
St James's Church, Sussex Gardens, London
This concert brings together nearly all of Julian Anderson's small-scale choral works, including a newly-commissioned Nunc dimittis, and music from Caius Choir's latest CD release Set Upon the Rood.
More information and tickets available here
Holy Week Concerts in Spain
Tuesday 11 April, 7.30 pm ~ Auditorio de Castellón
Wednesday 12 April, 7.30 pm ~ Iglesia de San Miguel, Cuenca in the SMR festival
(Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca)
Thursday 13 April, 12.00 pm ~ Sant Bartomeu Church, Benicarlo
Friday 14 April, 12.00 pm ~ San Nicolas Church, Requena
Saturday 11 March, 7.30 pm
Music for Passiontide & Commemoration
Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge
'Great Britain mourn!' - Anthems by William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tomkins & Henry Purcell, plus Alonso Lobo's St Matthew Passion (Chant from Toldeo c. 1600)
The choir will be joined by The Cambridge University Viol Consort (William Hunt, director) and Cornetts & Sackbuts from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (Jeremy West, director).
This concert features a rare chance to hear both a consort of viols and an ensemble of cornetts and sackbuts in combination with voices, featuring some of the finest English music of the 17th century. The concert also celebrates the anniversary of the death of Alonso Lobo in 1617.
For more information please take a look at the poster
Tickets available here
Saturday 4 March, 7.30 pm
Allegri's Miserere, Byrd's Mass for Five Voices & other sacred music
St Neots Parish Church PE19 2BH
For more information please take a look at the poster
2016
Tuesday 6 December, 7 pm
Bright Morning Star! Music for Advent & Christmas
Holy Trinity Church, Bincombe, Dorset
For more information please take a look at the poster
Monday 5 December, 7.45 pm
Bright Morning Star! Music for Advent & Christmas
Bradford Abbas Church, Dorset
For more information please take a look at the poster
Friday 2 December, 7.30 pm
Caius Choir Alumni Christmas Concert
St George's Church, Hanover Square, London, W1S 1FX
The evening will include a performance by the current Choir, as well as a chance for Alumni to take part in the singing and for the whole audience to sing some festive favourites. The music will feature Caius composers from Charles Wood to Tommy Hewitt Jones plus varied items for both Advent and Christmas. Tickets available here.
Saturday 12 November, 8.00 pm
The Dream of Gerontius ~ Edward Elgar
Ely Cathedral
The combined choirs of Gonville & Caius, Clare, Jesus, St Catharine's and Selwyn Colleges, Cambridge University Chamber Choir and the Ely Cathedral Girls Choir will perform this masterpiece of choral music with the Britten Sinfonia under the direction of Mark Williams. For more information and tickets please visit the Cambridge Music Festival website.
Concert Series on the Isle of Man
A musical evening with the Wesley Family
Monday 4 July, 7.30 pm ~ Castletown Methodist Church
Tuesday 5 July, 6 pm ~ St German's Cathedral, Peel
Wednesday 6 July, 7 pm ~ St Lupus, Kirk Malew
Thursday 7 July, 7.30 pm ~ St George's Church, Douglas
Friday 8 July, 7.30 pm ~ Christ Church (by the station), Laxey
Saturday 9 July, 7.00 pm ~ St Paul's Church, Ramsey
Saturday 25 June, 7.30 pm
Midsummer Concert ~ Music for Choir with Harp & Lyre
St Mary's Church, Whitchurch, Cardiff
Programme includes the World Première of Cantata by Stuart MacRae for choir & lyre, and works by Fauré, Rheinberger, Parry, Vaughan Williams & Holst
For more information please take a look at the poster
Saturday 7 May
London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
St Pancras Parish Church, Euston Road, London
Music for the Lost Palace of St Stephen’s Westminster
Works for choir and organ by Nicholas Ludford
New music for choir and ancient instruments
Works by Stephen Bick, Francis Grier, John Kenny and James MacMillan, including the premières of The Deer’s Cry by John Kenny and Set upon the Rood by Stephen Bick
John Kenny (Deskford Carnyx), Patrick Kenny (Lochnashade Horn), Barnaby Brown (Northern Triplepipes, Lyre & Aulos)
Friday 15 April, 7.30pm
Auditoire de Calvin, 1 Place de la Taconnerie, 1204 Geneva, Switzerland
Fauré Requiem and English Choral Masterpieces from the 16th-20th centuries. For ticket information please take a look at the poster.
Saturday 12 March, 7.30pm
St Mary's Church, Ashwell, Herts
Wednesday 9 March, 7.30pm
Joint concert with the Choir of the Music School, Mannheim at Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge. Programme includes J. S. Bach's Actus Tragicus BWV 106
2015
Saturday 5 December, 7.30pm
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Harlton
Fauré Requiem and music for Advent and Christmas
Wednesday 15 July, 8.30pm
St Albans International Organ Festival, St Albans Cathedral
“Music of the Irish and Tudor Kings” featuring the first performance of James MacMillan's work for choir, triplepipes and organ, Noli Pater.
Tuesday 30 June, 1.15pm
Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, Palace of Westminster
A recital of music from the Caius Choirbook, part of the St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster: Visual & Political Culture, 1292-1941 project.
Sunday 28 June, 3.00pm
Deal Festival, St Andrew’s Church
A concert of Brazilian choral music from the CD, Romaria
Friday 26 June, 7.30pm
St Peter & St Paul, Charlton Church, Dover
A concert in aid of Porchlight in association with the Rotary Club