Magdalen College Choir

Tonight at 6pm the Consort of Voices will be singing their first service of the academic year with music by Hassler and Palestrina for the Festival of St Luke. On Sunday the College Choir will be singing Eucharist at 11am and Evensong at 6pm. Photograph by Chris Bartle

As we move to recording more of our services and making them available online, we’ll be running a ‘Fridays at 6’ series, and putting out something from the previous week each Friday evening.  This week, it’s Wednesday’s Evensong.  Enjoy! youtube.com/live/sn20W0DEg…

This morning, the Senior Choristers and Clerks were honoured to sing at a special meeting of the Chancellor's Court of Benefactors in Convocation House.

This Monday, here’s A New Song to start your week. Recorded during our Freshers’ Evensong last week, with our new Organ Scholar accompanying. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ9F1Y…

Tomorrow at 6pm the College Choir will be singing Evensong to welcome the new students of the College. We will be singing music by Smith Moore, Daniel Purcell and James Macmillan. All are welcome to attend!

We’re delighted to be welcoming back former Assistant Organist Alexander Pott to launch his new CD - the first solo CD on the new Eule organ. All are welcome to come and hear him play music from the CD in this free concert on Saturday 4th October at 8pm.

We really value what has now become an annual collaboration between the Merton Choristers and the Magdalen Choristers. This year, we welcomed our friends from Merton to Magdalen Chapel for a service of music by Shephard, Dyson and Panufnik. Photos by Hugh Warwick

We’re delighted to welcome Sea-am, our new Organ Scholar, who played for his first service in the Chapel on Saturday.  Sea-am comes to us from New Zealand, and enjoys skiing, cricket and composing when he’s not playing the organ!

Yesterday the College Choir - complete with new members - returned to the Chapel after the Summer for a Gaudy Evensong. We are all looking forward to getting back to regular term-time services very soon.

Thank you to BBC Music Magazine for this short but lovely four-star review of our recent album of hymns on CORO Records.

We’re thrilled to have made it into Gramophone’s top 25 classical albums of the year (so far)! #Echobox=1748515968" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gramophone.co.uk/features/artic…

One of the highlights of the year for the choir is going up the tower on May Morning and singing to the crowds below. This year it was estimated that 16,000 people attended the event! Photos by @hedgehoghugh

The Informator is looking forward to May Morning!

The choristers are very excited that it’s just one month until May Morning, when the Informator Choristarum will be abseiling off the tower in a tradition dating back over 500 years. Sir John Stainer was, allegedly, the fastest Informator, reaching the ground in nine seconds.

Thank you to Hugh Warwick for these photos of last Friday's memorable performance of Bach's St John Passion in the Chapel. It was such a privilege to welcome back a number of familiar faces as soloists, including one who happened to be in the audience and bravely stepped in!

Thank you to Hugh Warwick for capturing the lovely tradition of Claymond's Dole on Tuesday. This benefaction has been awarded to all the members of the Foundation - the President, Fellows, Scholars, Demys, Academical Clerks and Choristers - annually since the 16th century.

On Friday at 6pm the College Choir will be singing a Festal Choral Evensong for the Eve of St David's day with music by Parry, Mathias and Hogan.

Today the College celebrates the life of Dr Bojan Bujic, Fellow and Tutor in Music, in a memorial service at which the College Choir will sing music by Byrd, Croce, Grayston Ives (with whom Bojan worked for many years), and Egon Wellesz (who mentored Bojan and on whom he wrote).

Thank you to @HughWarwick for capturing our collaboration with @PimlicoMusicalFoundation last Saturday.  It’s always a joy to work with such talented young singers.  We certainly raised the roof in Vaughan Williams’s anthem ‘Let all the world in every corner sing’!

The Consort of Voices will sing Evensong tonight, during the Choristers’ half-term break.  The anthem will be Willam Harris’s beautiful setting of Edmund Spenser’s text, 'Faire is the Heaven’.